Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-26 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Nick Hocking wrote: I can check Yass on Friday, as the Department of Health and Ageing is paying me to drive that way again. Thanks Liz, that'd be great. I'll bet a virtual $5.00 that there will still be no signposts but maybe you can find some corroborating evidence

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-20 Thread Steve Bennett
Why not use: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:noname Steve On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: I can check Yass on Friday, as the Department of Health and Ageing is paying me to drive that way again. Thanks Liz, that'd be great. I'll bet a

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-20 Thread John Smith
On 20 July 2010 16:10, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Why not use: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:noname I was told in the UK they have streets that aren't named, where as in Australia all streets do have names, I sent an email to this list some time ago asking for

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-20 Thread John Smith
On 20 July 2010 22:57, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Asking a local is one option. I go with, I'm so lost. Can you tell me what street this is? That only works if there is someone to ask... Visiting a business and asking for a business card is another option. Business cards

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-20 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, John Smith wrote: The only places I've seen signs vandalised are usually in residential locations, Hoylen and myself spotted one the other day during the mapping party... Because our Council uses surnames of people to name the roads, others with the same surname steal

[talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Nick Hocking
My quick scan of towns near canberra shows that they have the streets, but no street names. Hi Peter, Which towns near Canberra have unamed streets? This is a situation that I would like to correct as soon as possible. Cheers Nick ___ Talk-au mailing

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Peter Ross
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: My quick scan of towns near canberra shows that they have the streets, but no street names. Hi Peter, Which towns near Canberra have unamed streets? This is a situation that I would like to correct as soon as

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Peter Ross pe...@emailross.com wrote: I should be more specific, I looked at town on the hume on the way to canberra Using http://sautter.com/map  * Yass  * Goulbourn  * Murumbateman  * Gundaroo It's quite simple to check towns yourself. FYI, a simpler

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Peter Ross
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Peter Ross pe...@emailross.com wrote: I should be more specific, I looked at town on the hume on the way to canberra Using http://sautter.com/map  * Yass  * Goulbourn  * Murumbateman

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 July 2010 08:58, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: FYI, a simpler method: - navigate to town on openstreetmap.org - select noname from the + menu on the right Some people complained that the cloudmade noname layer can be horribly out of date, basically they cache a tile and don't

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Nick Hocking wrote: Streets without names are highlighted in red. I only see about 3 for Yass, and 1 in Gundaroo. Thanks Steve. The last 3 or 4 times I've checked Yass, those 3 have had no street signs and there were no other indications of what name they were. Still

[talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Nick Hocking
I can check Yass on Friday, as the Department of Health and Ageing is paying me to drive that way again. Thanks Liz, that'd be great. I'll bet a virtual $5.00 that there will still be no signposts but maybe you can find some corroborating evidence that I've missed. For some reason the two down

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Nick Hocking wrote: I can check Yass on Friday, as the Department of Health and Ageing is paying me to drive that way again. Thanks Liz, that'd be great. I'll bet a virtual $5.00 that there will still be no signposts but maybe you can find some corroborating evidence

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:40 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I made a noname overlay style and it should be a lot more up to date as the server should* be expiring tiles in real time: http://maps.bigtincan.com/?z=8ll=-35.255,149.163layer=BFTF Nice. Perhaps you

[talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-14 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, I'm planning a Sydney Canberra trip this weekend and will be able to make at least one direction a full day trip and do some mapping. So, does anyone have a suggestion for an unmapped own that is on the way(ish) ? cheers -- Franc ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Ross
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Franc Carter wrote: Hi, I'm planning a Sydney Canberra trip this weekend and will be able to make at least one direction a full day trip and do some mapping. So, does anyone have a suggestion for an unmapped own that is on the way(ish) ? You can use

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-14 Thread Babstar
Hi Franc, I think I have filled most of the holes between Campbelltown, Goulburn on the Hume Highway secondary roads. You may want to look closely at Sautter to find missing pieces to the South of Goulburn, back of lake George Bungendore, Lake Bathurst, or alternatively