Re: [talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-16 Thread Stephen Hope
A couple of things about the bridge. First, even though it was officially opened today, it doesn't have traffic on it until Monday week (24th). Then they do changes to the approaches, and a bit later shut the old bridge down for six months for refurbishment. We'll have to keep changing things

Re: [talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-16 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:56 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: There is a lot of weird street view locations where the roads have been realigned but the map data hasn't caught up... Yeah, here's an interesting one I came across a while ago:

[talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-16 Thread John Smith
CC-by dataset just turned up: http://data.australia.gov.au/622 It seems pretty straight forward to convert this to .osm format, suitable for JOSM. However I'm after suggestions on how to deal with the .osm file(s). I'm leaning towards producing metro and non-metro data sets and bulk importing

Re: [talk-au] Tagging stormwater drain areas?

2010-05-16 Thread Andrew Gregory
I'd like to thank everyone who replied. While there were some suggestions, it seems nobody else is worrying about these, so I guess with no established convention I'll go with waterway=drain;area=yes. waterway=drain because I've seen many of these sites with signs marked drainage area.

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-16 Thread Roy Wallace
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:13 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I'm leaning towards producing metro and non-metro data sets and bulk importing the non-metro data sets and then offering the metro data sets on a request basis, or is there a better way to handle this and other

[talk-au] Fwd: [Aust-NZ] The National Plan for Environmental Information [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-05-16 Thread John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au Date: 17 May 2010 14:30 Subject: [Aust-NZ] The National Plan for Environmental Information [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] To: aust...@lists.osgeo.org aust...@lists.osgeo.org fyi: http://www.environment.gov.au/npei/

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-16 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:13 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I'm leaning towards producing metro and non-metro data sets and bulk importing the non-metro data sets and then offering the metro data sets on a request basis, or is there a better way to handle this and other

Re: [talk-au] Tagging stormwater drain areas?

2010-05-16 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Andrew Gregory and...@scss.com.au wrote: I'd like to thank everyone who replied. While there were some suggestions, it seems nobody else is worrying about these, so I guess with no established convention I'll go with waterway=drain;area=yes. waterway=drain

Re: [talk-au] Tagging stormwater drain areas?

2010-05-16 Thread Stephen Hope
Andrew, Is this what you are talking about? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/basin%3Dinfiltration http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-February/034383.html Stephen On 17 May 2010 14:15, Andrew Gregory and...@scss.com.au wrote: I'd like to thank everyone

Re: [talk-au] Tagging stormwater drain areas?

2010-05-16 Thread John Smith
On 17 May 2010 15:27, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/basin%3Dinfiltration +1, waterway=drain according to current wiki doco only applied to ways ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-16 Thread John Smith
On 17 May 2010 15:07, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Is that because you're worried there will be a lot of duplicates with existing data in metro areas? Could you perhaps import it all, but Some people were upset at previous imports in metro areas.