Re: [talk-au] NSW Fire Station names

2023-02-12 Thread Andrew Harvey
Echoing what cleary said about reliance on the DCS Base Map, it's not our goal to recreate their label format. In my opinion it's more important to have branch and ref tagged as it gives more flexibility to data consumers on how they choose to label it, eg. they could choose, {branch} FS

Re: [talk-au] NSW Fire Station names

2023-02-12 Thread Warin
On 12/2/23 21:02, cleary wrote: In principle, I agree with Warin. My problem is relying on the Base Map as an authoritative source for names when there is other information. What 'other information' that is OSM compatible for copyright? Note 'other information' can be used to find stuff but

Re: [talk-au] NSW Fire Station names

2023-02-12 Thread cleary
In principle, I agree with Warin. My problem is relying on the Base Map as an authoritative source for names when there is other information. I just looked at Lane Cove Fire Station which has been recently re-tagged. It looks good to me. ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] NSW Fire Station names

2023-02-12 Thread Warin
On 12/2/23 09:30, cleary wrote: I have one further comment about obsolete information on the DCS NSW Base Map. Located at 744 Carnarvon Highway, just north of Moree is a building that is labelled on the Base Map as OTC Satellite Earth Station. As far as I could find out, it ceased to have

Re: [talk-au] NSW Fire Station names

2023-02-11 Thread cleary
I have one further comment about obsolete information on the DCS NSW Base Map. Located at 744 Carnarvon Highway, just north of Moree is a building that is labelled on the Base Map as OTC Satellite Earth Station. As far as I could find out, it ceased to have that purpose about 35 years ago but

Re: [talk-au] NSW Fire Station names

2023-02-11 Thread cleary
The DCS NSW Base Map is a great resource but some aspects do not seem to get updated e.g. roads that were once public but are now private may still appear on the map to have former status (e.g. parts of unincorporated area in western NSW), re-named roads may still show old names, waterways show