Re: [talk-au] New Mapper Sydney Campbelltown Randwick Help: Hi and Help?

2008-02-14 Thread Liz
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Franc Carter wrote: There was a discussion on talk-au some months ago about the use of mini_rounabout in Australia. From memory the informal otcome of this was that mini_roundabout coud be used for a roundabout that would fit inside the width of a residential road. I

Re: [talk-au] Rankins Springs

2008-02-14 Thread Liz
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Mike R wrote: Liz Railway St is in the list but Bales Av is not ! Mike ___ Looked at another source yesterday - our work database of names and addresses. Quite a large number of names and addresses - between 33K and 35K I'd

[talk-au] [OT] linux-garmin-serial

2008-02-14 Thread Liz
as my vmware is broken after an interesting computer problem can anyone tell me the correct command to extract a track from a garmin device on /dev/ttyS0 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] sa - vic border

2008-03-03 Thread Liz
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: I'd love to survey Serviceton but it is a bit out of the way for me. Your tracks and mine often cross. That road between sa and vic I haven't yet taken, so it can join the list for when I'm going further south into SA. Liz

Re: [talk-au] sa - vic border

2008-03-07 Thread Liz
online The above and a GPS with tracks - upload your tracks to the server, but I think you need JOSM to use them there are alternate editing programs, I haven't managed to get them to compile for my use. Without a java overhead they may be more usable on older hardware. Liz

Re: [talk-au] secondary_link

2008-03-09 Thread Liz
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Stuart Robinson wrote: Links are by default oneway, I think that's what the other person is getting at. stuart. so the use of secondary_link was possibly a shorthand to avoid oneway=true ?? ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Rankins Springs

2008-03-21 Thread Liz
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Liz wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Mike R wrote: . . . . . Mid Western Hwy and Rankins Springs Rd are also listed   :-) Mike I've emailed the council for advice. Its the sort of place which may provide access to their GIS for our use (to make sure they aren't

Re: [talk-au] New Lowzoom

2008-03-22 Thread Liz
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Brent Easton wrote: Hope this makes sense! Feel free to ask questions. so that explains why there are gaps on some major highways at z8 i'll make a point of exploring the captionless layer in future. LIz ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] new mapper with bad experience

2008-05-25 Thread Liz
On Sun, 25 May 2008, Andy Zivkovic wrote: The road's pretty steep and I wouldn't be comfortable changing tyres anywhere other than a very level area, so I drove home since it wasn't far, but the sounds coming from the wheel weren't pleasant. It doesn't look like anything was damaged, so I'm

Re: [talk-au] new mapper with bad experience

2008-05-26 Thread Liz
On Mon, 26 May 2008, Ian Sergeant wrote: 2. Look at the audio recording stuff in JOSM.  Crank up your recording mp3 player, and just say the street names (spelling if required) as you pass them.  JOSM lets you forward your GPS trace to see what you said at certain points.  See the wiki. the

Re: [talk-au] new mapper with bad experience

2008-05-28 Thread Liz
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Ben Kelley wrote: I managed a nice scape down the side of my Subaru (through to the metal) when not taking enough care turning around when the track became impassable right about here http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-36.38987lon=148.65745zoom=16layers=B0 0FF I backed

Re: [talk-au] Kangaroo Island SA

2008-06-05 Thread Liz
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Darrin Smith wrote: It's tragic to see that as usual with most of the people who dive in they haven't actually checked out the AU or SA wiki which make it pretty clear what should be primary roads in rural areas and have gone primary crazy... I did the B23, and if I didnt

Re: [talk-au] Tracing items.

2008-06-05 Thread Liz
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, 80n wrote: I'm not saying that Yahoo tracers should not do roads, but please do lakes and buildings and stuff first.  Give the GPS guys a chance to do the roads. It's a big planet we are not going to run out of unmapped space any time soon. 80n This weekend I'm going to

Re: [talk-au] should we migrate to osm forum

2008-06-11 Thread Liz
everything to the mailing list, tell forum likers to use nabble or gmane and have just two input points - the forum and the wiki. Liz ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] FW: should we migrate to osm forum

2008-06-12 Thread Liz
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Luke Woolley wrote: 'professional' usability expert from outside to volunteer to take a look at the project. Does anyone know one? More specifically about the mailing lists: does anyone know a tool that: * is an online forum, with threads and whatever 'forum people'

Re: [talk-au] FW: should we migrate to osm forum

2008-06-12 Thread Liz
to state that we meet here, and giving the gmane archive of the list as the contact for those who would like forum method. No, we can't yet integrate the blogs and private messages. Liz ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-au] should we migrate to osm forum

2008-06-13 Thread Liz
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Luke Woolley wrote: OK, I have switched from my Hotmail to my Gmail as well as changing my format from HTML to just plain text. Hopefully this will fix my problems but I do think it is funny I am creating a reason against the mailing list without even realising it. But

Re: [talk-au] Garmin OSM maps

2008-08-18 Thread Liz
) :-)) I've had my first play with osm maps on the Neo Freerunner too. Liz ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Garmin OSM Maps

2008-08-18 Thread Liz
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: Ok - Found it and Fixed it. At Bulahdelah the transition to dual lane was disconnected and both lanes were southbound right up to Possum Brush. Then there were more problem up near Taree. Fortunately there were just enough GPS tracks to connect the

Re: [talk-au] Garmin OSM Maps

2008-08-18 Thread Liz
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Liz wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: Ok - Found it and Fixed it. At Bulahdelah the transition to dual lane was disconnected and both lanes were southbound right up to Possum Brush. Then there were more problem up near Taree. Fortunately there were

Re: [talk-au] Gosmore vs Radomir

2008-08-27 Thread Liz
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Peter Ross wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Nick Hocking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've now got Gosmore running well on a couple of Mios (WM5 and WM6) and the radomir routable osm maps running on Garmin (with TTS) I can't find any information about radomir. it

[talk-au] Unclassified vs Quaternary

2008-08-28 Thread Liz
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Proposed_features/highway:quaternary We'd better put a few word in here about how Oz-OSM thinks about quaternary. Despite my massive tertiary education I reckon that quaternary is not a useful word for this. If I had to rename unclassified roads

[talk-au] boxes around cities

2008-09-02 Thread Liz
the author of them explain for me? Liz ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] boxes around cities

2008-09-02 Thread Liz
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Stephen Hope wrote: Yeah - look to see if they have a notes tag. Are these the Yahoo coverage boxes you are talking about? I noticed the one for Adelaide appeared a few months ago and confused me until I realised that's what it was for. -- well what use is it on a

[talk-au] state of the nation

2008-09-02 Thread Liz
sadly the image is too big to go as an attachment the images are on my server this is 110MB of Australia.osm in josm took about 20 min and all my RAM and swap to get this to display http://billiau.net/~liz/Screenshot.png and the compressed version at http://billiau.net/~liz/Screenshot.jpg

Re: [talk-au] state of the nation

2008-09-02 Thread Liz
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Matt White wrote: That's pretty cool. But what's New Caledonia doing just off the coast of Rockhampton? Did someone tow it a little closer to make for cheaper flights there? Matt didn't you notice that Australia itself has moved to the south of the continent?

Re: [talk-au] boxes around cities

2008-09-02 Thread Liz
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Greg Harper wrote: Those boxes as Matt said are probably the Yahoo coverage extents (see the notes tag). They should only appear during editing and shouldn't render, unless they are something else. Cheers, Greg But they do in other applications a routing application can

Re: [talk-au] Mapping Tee Place or Y Court

2008-09-07 Thread Liz
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: What is the best method of tagging these and if I use methods 1 or 2  (as I have been doing) should I also add a street relation to tie up the two ways into one entity (also with the same name). I haven't worked out to make relations in JOSM - can

Re: [talk-au] Relations

2008-09-09 Thread Liz
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: Sorry 'bout the formatting (looked ok on my screen). It doesnt make much sense now - damm. I'll try anyway. there's a No Left Turn in the metropolis of Binalong - important for routing because it keeps traffic on the main road.

Re: [talk-au] Google nearly up to date

2008-09-11 Thread Liz
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: Talking of accuracy - I mapped two streets in Yass and I think that I've got one of them wrong. I must have either misread the street sign or I have made a typo whilst editing.  Does anyone have authoritave information (from a non copyrighted source) of

Re: [talk-au] Google nearly up to date

2008-09-11 Thread Liz
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: I'm interested to see where that No left turn in Binalong is.  After some horrible experiences with Teleatlas maps in the US (and Sensis here), to do with one way streets and missing turn restictions, I have multiple bees in my bonnet about accurately

Re: [talk-au] the metropolis of Binalong

2008-09-11 Thread Liz
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: We haven't got the first road named yet, the turn is into Monteagle Street. Ahh - yes I remember.   And I think there may be another turn restriction in the same area (maybe a no right turn from Monteagle) I couldn't find any street signs till I got

Re: [talk-au] Google nearly up to date

2008-09-12 Thread Liz
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: I photographed the map in the park (on a big resolution). That road could be Manning Street. 10 days and I can check them again The RC church could be on that road or on Sykes Road - finding the address in the phone book I would regard as confirmatory

Re: [talk-au] Google nearly up to date

2008-09-12 Thread Liz
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: In Tathra  I missed mapping one street (probably called Esther Street). The GSV  actually is readable for this street but I won't name any street unless I've read the sign and uploaded a public GPS track for it. I'll get it in November. I'm now

Re: [talk-au] Google nearly up to date

2008-09-12 Thread Liz
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: Well I'll be dammed, I've driven past John Gilberts Grave so many time on my trips to/from Adelaide and never knew it was there. Actually I'd never heard of John Gilbert either.  Next time this is a must stop and read event - Thanks Liz That's one

Re: [talk-au] Google nearly up to date

2008-09-24 Thread Liz
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: I photographed the map in the park (on a big resolution). That road could be Manning Street. I searched today until I found a sign Manning Street. If that failed I was going to see the lady at the post office to ask her {ref=local_knowledge}.

Re: [talk-au] Which GPS receiver, Where to buy

2008-10-01 Thread Liz
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Stephen Hope wrote: I can't make it, unfortunately. I have a previous engagement. Ditto Well actually, Kangaroo Island won, and that's where I'll be I'd be pleased to meet some osm'ers one day LIz ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] OSM events calendar, was Re: Which GPS receiver, Where to buy

2008-10-01 Thread Liz
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Kim Hawtin wrote: Hugh Barnes wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2008 09:03:34 Thomas Schröder wrote: Even better — and this is my ulterior motive — come along to the Brisbane mapping party/marathon next week in New Farm and I'll walk you through it, literally:

Re: [talk-au] OSM events calendar, was Re: Which GPS receiver, Where to buy

2008-10-01 Thread Liz
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Liz wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Kim Hawtin wrote: Hugh Barnes wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2008 09:03:34 Thomas Schröder wrote: Even better — and this is my ulterior motive — come along to the Brisbane mapping party/marathon next week in New Farm and I'll walk you

Re: [talk-au] diary entry with interesting visualization of users contributions

2008-10-14 Thread Liz
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Franc Carter wrote: The site said that it was UK only - has this changed ? cheers It works fine for Au. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Road numbers in Garmin

2008-10-21 Thread Liz
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Diego Molla wrote: [Some time ago I sent a similar email from a different email address and I think it never made it to the group] In a recent trip I was comparing Shonkymaps and OSM on my Garmin GPSr and I saw that Shonkymaps displays a floating icon with the road

Re: [talk-au] Edits in and around Mt Barker, SA

2008-10-21 Thread Liz
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . A normal suburban roundabout should just be a circle (I use 8 corners) with the 4 ways connected. Merkaartor has a roundabout tool where you click a crossing, select the diameter of the roundabout and it creates a circle with the ways cropped off

Re: [talk-au] Road numbers in Garmin

2008-10-21 Thread Liz
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: sample of highway markers - Mildura http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.1939lon=142.1734zoom=12layers=B000 FTF sample of highway markers - Renmark http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.2052lon=140.7778zoom=12layers=B000 FTF sample of highway markers

Re: [talk-au] Road numbers in Garmin

2008-10-21 Thread Liz
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Darrin Smith wrote: But not all sections of the road in one state have the same code (Sturt Highway being exactly the case in point, it is NOT National A20 for the last ~5km between Gepps Cross and Pooraka. I don't know about the case around Mildura so I can't comment

Re: [talk-au] Road numbers in Garmin

2008-10-21 Thread Liz
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Darrin Smith wrote: Of course, if it's a newer edit, especially if it's a change from the correct data, string 'em up that's what it is, because I did a lot of Hay in May Or was that made Hay in May? Liz ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Edits in and around Mt Barker, SA

2008-10-22 Thread Liz
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Darrin Smith wrote: so I have some hope that sometime in the future the route system will be pretty consistent. there are drugs for people like you with delusions :-) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] Roundabouts

2008-11-15 Thread Liz
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Roundabouts I've put up here some pictures of Australian roundabouts. I checked more than one source for information on mini_roundabout and found no consensus. German precision was noted on wikipedia, but the writer had left some potential sizes out of the

Re: [talk-au] place=?

2008-12-03 Thread Liz
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Jim Croft wrote: How about this? http://www.gisca.adelaide.edu.au/web_aria/aria/aria.html a remoteness index for Australia http://www.gisca.adelaide.edu.au/products_services/ariav2_about.html You could invent a 'townyness' metric based on the product of the variables of

Re: [talk-au] place=?

2008-12-03 Thread Liz
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Janet Hawtin wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au A useful list indeed. Is that Kim in disguise? or

Re: [talk-au] Traces of Naracoorte, SA

2008-12-05 Thread Liz
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Matt White wrote: So, if you've got either Naracoorte traces, or local Naracoorte knowledge in terms of streetnames etc, I'd really appreciate some help :-) Sorry Matt, visited there a coupla years ago, before I started with OSM. So all I have now is commercial maps and no

[talk-au] Nuriootpa

2008-12-10 Thread Liz
Putting in a few POIs and not sure about one - I can't be sure which side of the road (Old Kapunda road) the TAFE is on from my photo. Someone who knows - could you check whether it is south of north of the road? (Perhaps its really big and on both sides?)

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-11 Thread Liz
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Darrin Smith wrote: The other core idea that you can't drive straight across the junction or pull a standard right turn any more is broken however if you use a mini. Darrin, where does this *core* idea come from? I had not seen it until you mentioned it.

[talk-au] *Round*abouts

2008-12-11 Thread Liz
Starting again about *round*abouts The renderers accept two methods of drawing a *round*about. There is a quick and easy method ideal for where two simple ways cross. Somebody has decided that this is called a mini-roundabout, and honestly I don't think that this item actually exists in

Re: [talk-au] *Round*abouts

2008-12-12 Thread Liz
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Darrin Smith wrote: You are still equating mini_roundabouts and roundabouts as exactly the same thing. Minis were defined as a very specific subset of roundabout which all the pages YOU provided say are small roundabouts that can be completely driven over. I notice you

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-12 Thread Liz
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Ian Sergeant wrote: I plan on submitting a proposal for the roundabout tag, where you can add it to a node like a mini_roundabout, for use in simple suburban type roundabouts. Something like junction: inner_width=3mcould specify the island size, making it possible for

Re: [talk-au] Wild guess surveying

2008-12-14 Thread Liz
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Andrew Laughton 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 worried that someone has copied another map, complete with faults. Look at my trace relative to what the road is

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-17 Thread Liz
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Ian Sergeant wrote: (Although I think people arguing against overloading tags have a bigger campaign on their hands than just mini-roundabouts.) The highway reference tag has two things in the one tag - the highway type and the highway number. Then the double naming of

Re: [talk-au] National Park Marine Park boundaries

2008-12-17 Thread Liz
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Matt White wrote: How are people mapping National Park (or state forest or other government mandated areas)? It seems that in a lot of cases, there is no way of actually doing an on the ground survey - a lot of the boundaries aren't marked, the areas can be massively

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-17 Thread Liz
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: It says that normal pedestrian islands aren't meant to be drawn as two separate ways (flares). I the pedestrian islands are *splitter islands* just being pedantic the flare is used to describe the flared direction of the incoming traffic

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-17 Thread Liz
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Ian Sergeant wrote: The primary questions here is: Should a suburban roundabout be mapped as a node or as a loop? My position is a node for three reasons.. or something like a josm plugin which would turn a node into a little way with 4 nodes, on demand? + When you

Re: [talk-au] Major road cleanup.

2008-12-19 Thread Liz
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: Could someone with personal knowledge of this intersection please map it, even if is just to save me a  6 hour return trip just to map one smallish bridge :-) I think that we can get there on route to somewhere else - just took some variations on last

Re: [talk-au] Major road cleanup

2008-12-21 Thread Liz
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Nick Hocking wrote: Thanks Darrin, that worked perfectly. Now can you tell ne how to convert that mini roundabout into a normal one without destroying both parks first. Since the mini node is part of both parks I would have to leave it there and build a normal

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Liz
the source of the data who knows whether it should be corrected or not? There is a substantial amount of data with no source tag. I'd really like to know whether it was traced or surveyed, because then I'd know whether to go down that street or not. Liz

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Liz
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: My thoughts on this is if it's not tagged then it's not surveyed. Cheers Ross Initially I didn't tag my surveyed stuff as source=survey There is just so much to learn about what really needs to be recorded, and I once thought that unmarked stuff

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Liz
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Nick Hocking wrote: Eventually someone may use these traces without  knowing if I was actually driving on the road the whole time. Or carried the gps with you on a side trek into the bushes for nature's call :-) ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Liz
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Cameron wrote: I have recently been into the SA state library and found an out of copyright SA street directory (from the 40s.) They had both Fuller's and Gregory's directories but the Gregory's were far easier to read and thus, to copy. Important matter on copyright

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-02-06 Thread Liz
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, BlueMM wrote: Apparently there was a big push for unification of suburb postcode boundaries a few years back by the governmental spatial agencies. I believe it hasn't been completed, parts of NT didn't correspond. we have one postcode here for many places - 8 distinct

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL License + Outline Procedure

2009-02-27 Thread Liz
Important news from legal-talk -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL License + Outline Procedure Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-t...@openstreetmap.org The OSMF License

[talk-au] We've made it big time

2009-03-02 Thread Liz
Well not really But I had to travel by Rex this weekend, and in the flight magazine, in the CountryBiz section, OSM was featured. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] OSM involvement @ Foss4g2009

2009-03-05 Thread Liz
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Sarah Manley wrote: Dear All, I recently received this message, and was curious is anyone is already   involved or planning to be? I am based out of SF, and would be willing   to help from a distance. Best, Sarah To save others having to use a popular web search engine

[talk-au] MapBot changes to wiki

2009-03-09 Thread Liz
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Australia was changed by a bot to a new format for the map. It broke, and I have edited it to have the map show again. Just check any wiki pages you may have put a map onto in case they were broken too. Liz

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2009-03-20 Thread Liz
boundaries are not right and I can't find any division between postcode 2680 and 2681. I don't know where the line is either, and probably not many people do know, as we don't have postal delivery and it isn't of practical importance. LIz ___ Talk-au mailing

[talk-au] the fun from yesterday

2009-04-01 Thread Liz
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] API + Licensing Update Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 From: Artem Dudarev duda...@gmail.com To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-t...@openstreetmap.org Fake SteveC announced OSMF CEO

Re: [talk-au] Boundary questions.

2009-04-12 Thread Liz
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Nick Hocking wrote: 2) If a suburb follows a road or river should part of the boundary way be deleted and replaced with that part of the road or river. 3) How can we determine if a boundary follows the centre of the road/river or maybe one or other sides of it. I've just

Re: [talk-au] Validator in JOSM - extra picky?

2009-04-12 Thread Liz
On Sun, 1 Mar 2009, Gordon Smith wrote: So, dear list members, what pronouncement have I missed?  What has been updated or changed that I don't yet know about? No idea either, but I have new JOSM and new plugins this week (could have been available earlier) and Validator can be customised in

[talk-au] Cabonne Shire Roads

2009-04-14 Thread Liz
located another name for the Cudal Canowindra Road, and have emailed the council for a definitive answer. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-33.3973lon=148.7264zoom=12layers=B000FTF Liz ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-au] Cabonne Shire Roads

2009-04-16 Thread Liz
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Nick Hocking wrote: Please, guys, don't copy road names from anywhere. I'll second third and fourth that. There are Easter eggs everywhere. A quick visual check of  different copyrighted maps quickly shows the presence of these.  A town or suburb usually has at least one.

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-17 Thread Liz
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Franc Carter wrote: I'm currently wrestling with trying to get a handle on how we can tell whether the ABS data is more geographically accurate than yahoo or other data (not necessairly whether it is an accuate reflection of the boundaries) So, yes - thoughts please ABS

[talk-au] and forwarding this too

2009-04-17 Thread Liz
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [Osmf-talk] Foundation Membership report Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 From: Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz To: osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org Dear members, I've added three new members and some renewals tonight and our current membership stands at

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-19 Thread Liz
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Darrin Smith wrote: Know that feeling, I have several days of Easter holiday traces to go in also. *twiddles*thumbs* we were just catching up from December in our house, now the days are shorter, and have stuff waiting for upload more thumb twiddling

[talk-au] Buronga-Mildura Road???

2009-04-20 Thread Liz
collected at the motel calls it Benetook Avenue. I'm sure that the mapper , who I have identified, will have some evidence, like a geo-tagged photo, to post a link to, so that they can justify the name change (NOT) Please guys, stop copying Google Maps Especially when you are copying rubbish. Liz

Re: [talk-au] Routable OSM Garmin maps

2009-04-21 Thread Liz
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Matt White wrote: I've created my first set of routable OSM maps for Garmin devices. For those of you with such a device, have a go at downloading the IMG files and see how the routing works. The routing is fairly new for the mkgmap application, and will probably improve

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-25 Thread Liz
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Liz wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Franc Carter wrote: I'm currently wrestling with trying to get a handle on how we can tell whether the ABS data is more geographically accurate than yahoo or other data (not necessairly whether it is an accuate reflection

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-26 Thread Liz
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Franc Carter wrote: Hmm, one thing that I forgot to check is the number of nodes in the ways - I seem to remember that 0.6 was going to introduce a limit on this . . . . cheers The limit is 2000, and the involved way

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-27 Thread Liz
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Liz wrote: 1433 nodes split it into 600+ and 700+, still couldn't upload the change. I wait on the bug report - someone has another problem with relations and they may be related problems Merkaartor let me bypass the problem and split the way however, now one length has

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-27 Thread Liz
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Darrin Smith wrote: I'm working on 2 relations like this on KI that sound like they are having the same kind of issue. ANY edit of any form to the relation would cause an error - EXCEPT deleting I eventually tried on one of them. So I've just kept a copy of all the details

Re: [talk-au] Copyright ruling on compiled lists

2009-05-01 Thread Liz
On Fri, 1 May 2009, mattwh...@iinet.net.au wrote: While this may not change to much in AU for OSM, it's still an interesting ruling - particuarly the possible future review of the Telstra v Desktop Marketing decision. IceTV won their appeal against Channel 9 over the reuse of 9's TV guide.

[talk-au] Photographers face wider anti terror curbs news

2009-05-14 Thread Liz
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Photographers_face_wider_anti_terror_curbs_news_281398.html From a UK site, where they are reporting on training civilians to keep a watch on 'hostile reconnaissance'. This urges people to look out for 'overt/covert photography' as well as those in

Re: [talk-au] Rivers

2009-05-22 Thread Liz
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: I tried JOSM briefly the other day but the entire background was black and made it harder to use than potlatch. All of that is completely configurable - all the colours can be changed and a heap of other stuff. Potlatch makes it hard to do some things

Re: [talk-au] Rivers

2009-05-22 Thread Liz
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Ross Scanlon wrote: and no, we don't have mini-roundabouts in australia, they are all roundabouts. Agree totally Liz but I did find one that matched the description in the wiki. did it have a blue sign with white circulating arrows? (rhetorical question

Re: [talk-au] Causeways

2009-05-25 Thread Liz
On Mon, 25 May 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: Wikipedia has 2 distinct entries, a ford is something close to the usual concrete slab I'm thinking/refering to, the US version of a causeway looks like a built up piece of land acting like a low bridge, although they do seem to have a Western

Re: [talk-au] Causeways

2009-05-25 Thread Liz
On Mon, 25 May 2009, Mark Pulley wrote: Wikipedia also has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_water_crossing - this is what I have been thinking of as 'causeway'. Do we need a new setting highway=low_water_crossing ? ford should do that OK. We have an interesting language problem in

Re: [talk-au] Causeways

2009-05-25 Thread Liz
- if the creek had water it would be wet?? Liz ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-27 Thread Liz
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: Thanks for the tips that everyone replied with, will give me something to swat up on. I've looked through a few devices on ebay but while they logged a large number of points, some had a 5 second refresh which is a little too high, 1 second per point

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-30 Thread Liz
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: It's fairly blank at present in most rural areas I've seen, there is the odd town mapped out and I've been helping where I can, but in my opinion it's much more important getting the street/road data before anything else will really matter. We started

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-08 Thread Liz
600km to cover 4 different towns, concentrating on town roads and names, then points of interest. It is raining :-) cold and bleak and not really bicycle weather this long weekend Liz ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-au] Canberra mapping party.

2009-06-08 Thread Liz
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Nick Hocking wrote: I'll be conducting a one man, mini mapping frenzy, around the Hervey Bay area, whilst trying to avoid 1) Swine Flu 2) Dengue Fever 3) Getting drowned by the floods hell, it's getting really hard to take a holiday these days I've got a new

[talk-au] Old maps

2009-06-09 Thread Liz
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Obtaining_old_maps this page has been marked by someone from the phillipines as being out of date Three links for NSW Dept of Lands stuff are now broken. Can anyone find better links and put them in However, i think that This article or section contains

Re: [talk-au] Mass realignment of roads? (was Mapping things by importance)

2009-06-12 Thread Liz
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: I've come to the realisation that every road (and everything that was placed in reference to the roads) in the suburb where I live is out by about 8-10m. Much of Brisbane's road system seems to have been traced off the Yahoo imagery, apparently

Re: [talk-au] SA/Vic border

2009-06-14 Thread Liz
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: Does anyone know the exact latitude of the SA/Vic border? I've only seen rough estimates of 3.6km west of 141 degrees east. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

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