[talk-au] Area/location names

[Stuart Robinson]

Yeah I drew it in after seeing the Kuringai National Park. And, well it'd be
nice for a final map to have forests marked in. It also gives character to
the map which is otherwise basically just roads at the moment...

stuart.

On Dec 19, 2007 4:35 PM, Brent Easton <b.easton at exemail.com.au> wrote:

>  Hi Stuart,
>
> Just on the subject of the forest areas.
>
> Are you planning to do the rest of Australia? Once we start, this is a bit
> hard to finish.
>
> We had this discussion a while back and generally decided that it was not
> a good idea to tag forest areas for just that reason - once you do one, you
> basically have to do the whole East Coast.
>
> What would be good is if we can source the National Park boundaries in a
> form suitable for inclusion and include National Parks, Nature Reserves and
> State Forests in Green.
>
> Cheers,
> Brent.
>
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> On 19/12/2007 at 11:26 AM Stuart Robinson wrote:
>
> My precious forest :P Argh mapnik works with it fine... stupid osmarender
> :) If you can mark z=12 tiles as sea or land, why cant you mark them as
> forest? I mean, an awful lot of the world is forest, so this isn't the only
> time it's going to come up.
>
> On Dec 19, 2007 9:31 AM, Myles Watkins <nero82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ahh, Perfect. I did notice people using the hamlet tag for this
> > actually.
> > And I Have noticed the problem with the forest area. Hope we can sort
> > something out!
> > Cheers,
> > Myles
> >
> >
> > On Dec 19, 2007 7:47 AM, Brent Easton < b.easton at exemail.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > >  As from tomorrow, you will be able to tag a node with
> > >
> > > place=locality
> > > name=xxxxx
> > >
> > > to get a name on the map. It will render the same size as the
> > > place=hamlet text.
> > >
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, we have a big problem with the natural=forest area that
> > > has been added over the entire mountains. As you can see, it does not render
> > > properly at zoom 12 or higher where the Z12 tile is completely enclosed
> > > within the forested area.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Brent.
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > On 19/12/2007 at 6:50 AM Myles Watkins wrote:
> > >
> > > Gday everyone,
> > > Just been adding some more roads and walks up here in the Blue
> > > Mountains. I was just wondering how best to add some names in that I want to
> > > show up on the map. For example, I added the Minnie Ha Ha falls walking
> > > track and the falls themselves. Now; this walk is popular, and has a NPWS
> > > info board at the start. As such I added a node for the falls themselves,
> > > and tagged it as a tourist attraction. The name has shown up in pink and is
> > > fairly large, though doesnt seem to show up until a zoom of 15 (on
> > > osmarender). This seems acceptable to be. However, I have also mapped in
> > > some walking tracks nearer to lawson. On this track there are three named
> > > falls/locations and a named lookout point. I don't think these are
> > > appropriate to label as tourist attractions, but I think they should show up
> > > on the map. What tag can I use here to get them to show up? (preferably as
> > > small black text i think).
> > >
> > > If you want to have a look at what ive been doing, check it out on
> > > osmarender and let me know how I'm going. Its very incomplete, and i'm still
> > > correcting some bits that havent rendered properly!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Myles
> > > aka Teampen
> > >
> > >
> > > ____________________________________________________________
> > > Brent Easton
> > > Analyst/Programmer
> > > University of Western Sydney
> > > Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au
> > >
> >
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