Re: [talk-au] Mapping road closures...

2010-01-01 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The only problem with this scheme is you can't do, first sunday of the month for example. Surely someone in some field has already come across this problem before - i.e. surely someone's already developed a formal

Re: [talk-au] Mapping road closures...

2010-01-01 Thread John Smith
2010/1/1 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The only problem with this scheme is you can't do, first sunday of the month for example. Surely someone in some field has already come across this problem before - i.e.

Re: [talk-au] Mapping road closures...

2010-01-01 Thread Jim Croft
iso 8601: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 jim On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The only problem with this scheme is you can't do, first sunday of the month for example.

Re: [talk-au] Mapping road closures...

2010-01-01 Thread John Smith
2010/1/2 Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com: iso 8601: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 I'm still trying to figure out if that would cover things like first sunday, third saturday of a month, do you know how to write this in iso8601 format? ___

Re: [talk-au] Mapping road closures...

2010-01-01 Thread Jim Croft
think it might have to be derived, e.g. http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/vb-date2.htm#Month http://code.google.com/p/datejs/ jim On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:46 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/2 Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com: iso 8601: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Re: [talk-au] Mapping road closures...

2010-01-01 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com wrote: think it might have to be derived, e.g. http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/vb-date2.htm#Month http://code.google.com/p/datejs/ That's a shame. But iso 8601 is probably still a good starting point.

[talk-au] Mapping road closures...

2009-12-31 Thread John Smith
I was thinking last night how it might be useful to mark in common roads that are closed, and the events, eg roads commonly closed off before new years eve etc... Anyone have any thoughts on the best way to do this? ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Mapping road closures...

2009-12-31 Thread Franc Carter
I was thinking about this last night as well, as we were trying to navigate the nightmare of Sydney road closures. I suspect the roads that are closed each year (and even more likely each event) will be different. So, I cam to the conclusion that the best way of handling this was as some sort of

Re: [talk-au] Mapping road closures...

2009-12-31 Thread John Smith
2010/1/1 Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com: I suspect the roads that are closed each year (and even more likely each event) will be different. So, I cam to the conclusion that the Some roads, like the road over the harbour bridge are consistently closed the same time each year, usually for