[talk-au] Wild guess surveying

2008-12-14 Thread Andrew Laughton
Hi All This might be just a survey with long gaps between points, but my Whereis based GPS also has the same road layout. I am a little worried that someone has copied another map, complete with faults. Look at my trace relative to what the road is drawn at. Is Drewboy in this forum ?

Re: [talk-au] Wild guess surveying

2008-12-14 Thread Andrew Laughton
...@4x4falcon.com: Easily fixed then. Upgrade the road to your trace. On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:23:26 +0900 Andrew Laughton laughton.and...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All This might be just a survey with long gaps between points, but my Whereis based GPS also has the same road layout. I am a little

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2009-02-25 Thread Andrew Laughton
Suburb boundaries would not move that often, if that is all that is available, I vote to put it in. On 25/02/2009, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: The data will be tagged as reviewed=no to indicate that a person has no confirmed that it is 'correct'. In the case if the Suburb

Re: [talk-au] 4wd_only

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Laughton
Where is the Wiki ? 2009/8/14 Jason Stirk jst...@oobleyboo.com Voted 2009/8/14 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: --- On Thu, 13/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: there are some things that are best done by action rather than talk and

[talk-au] TomTom Anounces an Open Source GPS Technology

2009-09-09 Thread Andrew Laughton
Slashdot has an interesting item; http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/09/2216255/TomTom-Anounces-an-Open-Source-GPS-Technology?art_pos=1 *According to OStatic, European company TomTom (which recently settled a patent

Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-11 Thread Andrew Laughton
Maybe because they are not nesting at the moment. 2009/9/11 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com 2009/9/11 Liz ed...@billiau.net: magpies are very intelligent creatures they can tell the time (they know when the postie is coming) and they can tell a young male human from less aggressive

Re: [talk-au] answers to the difficult questions

2010-02-16 Thread Andrew Laughton
IMHO tourism=effluent_dump is good, as they are aimed at tourists, but it is not an attraction as such. recycling:excrement=yes not really relevant it is not really recycling. or even amenity=waste_disposal waste=excrement Not bad, but the second tag is useless by itself, it would be better if it

Re: [talk-au] Bus, tram and train stop data license change

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Laughton
Get Firefox if you have not already got it, then get the Scrapbook add on, then copy the cached version to a local scrapbook, just in case it changes again. Might not make much difference, but every little bit helps. On 4 March 2010 12:20, Alex Lum sierra.os...@gmail.com wrote: Very

[talk-au] Possible vandalism

2010-07-12 Thread Andrew Laughton
Hi people I have not been to this area for well over a year, but I thought I had done a bit more than this. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.1192lon=136.3543zoom=14 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.37294lon=136.10252zoom=15 How do I examine these areas to make sure someone has not

Re: [talk-au] OSM alternatives...

2010-09-21 Thread Andrew Laughton
So to this end I just filed a bug with JOSM asking to get multiple credentials stored and some easy way to switch between them. To me this means multiple username and password combinations, all with the same OSM site. I think you should spell out that we need JOSM to be able to be used on

Re: [talk-au] OSM alternatives...

2010-09-21 Thread Andrew Laughton
http://fosm.org give instructions on how to change JOSM so that it uses FOSM. On 22 September 2010 12:23, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 September 2010 14:16, Andrew Laughton laughton.and...@gmail.com wrote: To me this means multiple username and password combinations, all

Re: [talk-au] license change map

2010-11-20 Thread Andrew Laughton
In my opinion OSM will never recover to the same point that it is at today if data is removed for the simple reason that most, if not all government data will need to be removed, and there is no way that private mappers can replace this as there are no physical markings on the ground, or water as

Re: [talk-au] license change map

2010-11-20 Thread Andrew Laughton
In my opinion OSM will never recover to the same point that it is at today if data is removed for the simple reason that most, if not all government data will need to be removed, Why would government data need to be removed? Australian government geodata, for example, is definitely

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-12-01 Thread Andrew Laughton
There are not that many words here, so it should be harder to go astray, but the following lines present problems; you must use the imagery as presented in the API, you cannot modify or edit the imagery, This part implies that you cannot use it as a layer, by modifying the imagery with map

Re: [talk-au] Bulk loading all the Australian Statistical Geography Standard into the OSM - a query from the Australian Bureau of Statistics [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-02-22 Thread Andrew Laughton
Hi Marcus Unfortunately OSM has recently forced a change to it's licence agreement to a version where attribution is not required on any copies that are made of OSM data, probably to appease Microsoft and Bing maps who will then be free to charge for these maps, with no attribution at all.

Re: [talk-au] Does FOSM really work?

2011-04-24 Thread Andrew Laughton
I also tried to use Potlatch on http://fosm.org, but using Firefox on Kubuntu. I get a map OK, but I do not know where it is, and there is no obvious way of changing the location you are looking at. There is a GPS button that does not work, this might be the problem. Also there is no obvious way

Re: [talk-au] Reassurance and Licensing

2011-05-04 Thread Andrew Laughton
Ian wrote . but OSM was largely formed because of government restrictions over the use of its data (i.e OS copyright), . This is news to me, but if for some reason this is true, can someone please explain to me why, after convincing the Australian government to release data under a

Re: [talk-au] What A Day

2011-07-08 Thread Andrew Laughton
So what has caused this earthquake and corresponding tsunami? I would say a single troll, who it must be admitted has had quite a reaction. It might be to distract mappers from discussing what they are doing. I personally cannot seem to be able to get any joy from fosm.org, at the moment I am

Re: [talk-au] What A Day

2011-07-09 Thread Andrew Laughton
2) It's clear that some people cannot access fosm.org even when it is up.  I think this is because some browsers don't support xslt.  More information would be helpful.  I will switch to server-side xslt if that is indeed the cause. OK, i tried fosm.org, it worked. I clicked on the maps link

Re: [talk-au] Irony...

2011-07-13 Thread Andrew Laughton
Irony is when you buy a shiny new GPS loaded with OSM data, only to find out that you need to pay a license fee to be able to update the map. Gotta love that new license. On 13 July 2011 15:04, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Matt White

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-10-31 Thread Andrew Laughton
On 31 October 2011 20:12, Chris Barham cbar...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 19:51, waldo000...@gmail.com waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: +1. Surely forwarding the emails is less work for you anyway than transcribing parts of the emails (?!). Did you consider why forwarding the

Re: [talk-au] Censorship

2011-11-03 Thread Andrew Laughton
On 4 November 2011 08:09, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: I disagree. Moderation is the only way to stop this channel being filled with diatribes and I'm glad that the moderator(s) are being reasonable enough to let the better emails through. Steve But who moderates the moderators ?

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-11-15 Thread Andrew Laughton
I fail to see a contradiction. If you are not sure about something, you ask explicitly and get an explicit answer. That is what we got. That is what is written on the wiki with the kind assistance of data.gov.au. If it helps, me formally affirm and represent what I have said before: I have

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-11-15 Thread Andrew Laughton
Also if I agree to the new license, is there an easy way to delete all my Yahoo aerial tracing, or is this now allowed ? Why would you want to remove that data? I do not want to, but this is the reason I originally disagreed, because the derived data is not compatible with the open

Re: [talk-au] A way to go

2011-12-01 Thread Andrew Laughton
On 2 December 2011 07:20, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: On 02/12/11 09:00, Richard Weait wrote: Deleting tainted data and remapping by local mappers is far superior to waiting until March 31 and running a script. So removing data from decliners and remapping it, and reaching out

Re: [talk-au] ABS [ ODbL data.gov.au permission granted]

2011-12-02 Thread Andrew Laughton
On 3 December 2011 08:06, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 3, 2011 10:48 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: To play Devil's Advocate here, does anyone actually want the suburb boundaries retained (or reimported)? To me, they've always been a big pain in the

Re: [talk-au] Residential Roads

2011-12-10 Thread Andrew Laughton
I have tended to use unclassified if a country road is not major enough to be a tertiary road, and residential in an industrial or shopping area, even if there are only businesses residing there. On 11 December 2011 12:18, mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:46:50 +1000

[talk-au] surface tag

2012-10-23 Thread Andrew Laughton
Hi People Sorry if this has already been stated, I have not mapped since the licence change and I am only reading some emails. I my humble opinion, surface=unpaved should not be used. surface=paved should only be used is the surface is literally paved with brick, bluestone, cobblestone,