Talk:WikiProject Australia
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Separate by State or City?
Do we want to change this to separate by State, rather than City? Frode 09:49, 5 September 2006 (BST)
- I'm guessing this page has moved on a little since that comment in 2006 -- Harry Wood 11:42, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Bike paths
I'm interested in some standards for bike paths in Melbourne. Examples are:
- bike paths
- shared footways
- on-road bike routes
- rail trails
Thermal 2007-06-19
- Lots of well established standards for these things. I'm no expert myself, but the Bicycle page has some links -- Harry Wood 11:42, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
unwayed segments & Coastlines
Quite a few of these are in australia, and appear to be someone drawing coastlines and rivers. I started just trying to help out by converting them to ways, and marking them the same way as the other sections.
However, the traces are crap. Sorry to whoever put them in, but they don't even remotely follow the coastline. The satellite imagery is much better than the jagged chunky lines that someone has drawn "along" the riverbanks. (See the upper reaches of the brisbane river particularly)
I'm tempted to just delete the ways I've converted, and leave it a clean slate for someone to come along and do a nicer job tracing, but I don't live in Brisbane anymore, and I'm not actively mapping there, so I thought I'd put up some comments here first instead.
User:Kpalsson 12:14, 26 September 2007
- I was under the impression that these coastlines were from an automatic import of coastline data. I agree the accuracy is shocking, especially up the Parramatta river in Sydney. --Brainwad 10:21, 7 October 2007 (BST)
- I guess you're probably looking at PGS import data. I noticed rivers in India with poor accuracy which I put down to changes in the position of the river since the data was created a long time ago (and flooded valleys etc) But maybe it is just inaccurate. We can improve this gradually by hand. It can be very jaggedy, and is often improved by removing lots of nodes to make a straight line -- Harry Wood 11:39, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
Australian map & GPS companies
I got a query from someone about loading OpenStreetMap onto a Pheonix satnav unit. Looks like Pheonix [1] is an aussie company using maps from Sensis, a wing of Telstra who sell satnav maps on whereis.com. Can't work out if they have their own file format, or just offer maps in various formats required by various devices. No mention on the wiki here, so I'm guessing nobody's done anything super-in-depth like reverse engineering the file formats for these things. -- Harry Wood 11:53, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
