[talk-au] Murchison - Square Kilometer Telescope not showing on Garmin maps

[David Bannon]

Yep, as Jason says, its all there under -

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Observatory

Looks to me like Bass drove it initially but just lost steam. Don't
blame him, I did the same when I wanted to get a better definition of
4x4 tracks. 

However, the SquareKilometer is just about the biggest bit of science
around these days, even the slightly dumbed down version happening in
Oz. So, maybe we should take the lead and try and get the Observatory
tag up for a vote ?  There would be easily enough people on this mailing
list to carry it.

Alternatively, just observe the suggested tagging. Sigh....

Warin, you do realise that getting the tag successfully voted on does
not mean it will suddenly appear on maps all over the place, don't you ?

Thats a whole different process. Having a tag voted gives you a bit of
moral high ground, thats all.

David

 

On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 13:10 +1000, Jason Ward wrote:
> The proposed observatory schema seems to have stalled but looking
> through the discussion on it there was consensus from the group that
> is ready enough to put to a vote (which is where it seems to have
> stopped progress). 
> 
> Maybe take a look through there and pick up that proposal if you have
> the means to do so. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> 
> Jason
> 
> On 31 Dec 2013 13:06, "John Henderson" <snowgum at gmx.com> wrote:
>         On 31/12/13 11:17, Warin wrote:
>         
>                 Any other thoughts?
>         
>         Use mkgmap to make your own Garmin maps.  Edit the mkgmap
>         points file
>         and add an entry for radio telescope.  Eg:
>         
>                 man_made=radio_telescope [0x6411 resolution 21]
>         
>         John
>         
>         
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