Am happy to help re technical convos - can talk about postgis/mapnik to render, or other things like slippy map solutions On Apr 30, 2013 5:35 PM, "John Henderson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30/04/13 14:29, Nick Hocking wrote: > > The other day I was riding the push bike along some trails and got >> talking to some horse riders. >> >> It turns out the Lady (Jenny) is the ACT coordinator for (and also >> the secretary of) the Bicentennial National Trail Ltd. Naturally I >> dropped the term Openstreetmap and it appears that they are very >> interested to hear about OSM and their mapping guy would like to talk >> to us about what they could do with OSM. >> >> Apparently they are doing quite a bit of remapping in Queensland, due >> to the floods, so I see BNT and OSM being very usefull to each other. >> I told Jenny that one of our Canberra mappers (John) had done quite a >> bit of work on the BNT in the ACT and they would love to talk to you >> about it, if you'd be agreeable to that. >> > > I'd be delighted to offer what help I can. I haven't done any active > mapping for a while, and the OSM BNT route needs to be remapped from the > Barton Hwy east to the NSW border. This is because the BNT has been > rerouted through the new suburbs. > > I've created a relation for the BNT: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/**browse/relation/176684<http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/176684> > > I've also configured the route to show up on: > http://hiking.waymarkedtrails.**org/en/?zoom=9&lat=-34.76218&** > lon=149.35801&route=1<http://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/en/?zoom=9&lat=-34.76218&lon=149.35801&route=1> > > There it's marked using a symbol to represent the official trail marker > (a yellow triangle with two vertical ochre stripes) as > osmc:symbol=green::yellow_**triangle:||:red > > They also need to have topographical maps for their trail guides but >> I'm not sure whether OSM has that yet for Australia. It turns out >> that the trail I was riding on is part of the BNT but is not yet >> mapped as such in OSM, so I'll have to start surveying the southern >> part of the ACT's bit of the BNT when time permits. Therefore, my >> question is, who is the best OSM person to advise BNT of the various >> technical details of using OSM map data. >> > > That's a good question. > > John > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-au<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au> >
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