[Talk-ca] Some french translation advice
I'm working on a JOSM plugin to help rename/reclassify provincial roads and provincial trunk highways in Manitoba in the Canvec data. The goal is to enforce a common naming for PRs and PTHs in MB. Generally, highways with ref=0-99 are considered Provincial Trunk Highways, and as such I've got the following names: EN: Provincial Trunk Highway XY FR: route provinciale à grande circulation XY Generally, highways with ref99 are considered Provincial Roads, as as such I've got the following names: EN = Provincial Road XYX FR = route provinciale secondaire XYZ These are the french translations I could come up with, given my very limited understanding of the French language. Could someone proof these for me and let me know if I'm completely off base? Thanks, Tyler ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please
Canvec has the same problem, stations that had service many years ago are still tagged as stations, even if they been replaced by new stations. Smith Falls, Ontario has three stations shown, one is the current VIA Rail station, one is a former station and the third is not even on a track. Sam Dyck ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please
Bonjour Sam, You're right! As we don't have the resources to update the entire map content, we might have to rely on you folks and use your work to update NRCan maps. Daniel -Original Message- From: Sam Dyck [mailto:samueld...@gmail.com] Sent: January 11, 2012 11:20 To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please Canvec has the same problem, stations that had service many years ago are still tagged as stations, even if they been replaced by new stations. Smith Falls, Ontario has three stations shown, one is the current VIA Rail station, one is a former station and the third is not even on a track. Sam Dyck ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
[Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please
Hello: I'm scratching my head as to an appropriate tag? Seems odd that there isn't a reference to something like man_made:sign_post railway:marker railway:location railway:signal etc. Punt the ball to the tagging list? tagg...@openstreetmap.org Andrew ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Andrew Allison andrew.alli...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: I'm scratching my head as to an appropriate tag? Seems odd that there isn't a reference to something like man_made:sign_post railway:marker railway:location railway:signal etc. Punt the ball to the tagging list? tagg...@openstreetmap.org Yes please. Or, at least to talk@. This is not a unique Canadian tagging issue. We'd like to be in-line with the consensus. Also, taginfo.openstreetmap.org might be helpful, though I usually find that most-helpful if I already know which tag i should use. That's not the case here. :-) ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
[Talk-ca] OSM meetings in other towns
Dear All, I keep talking about the fun we have at OSM events, and I wonder how to help others start similar events in their towns? The conferences are super. If you can go, you should go. No question. SotM 2012 will be in Tokyo Japan this year and I'm very excited about that. Smaller events like our monthly Mappy Hours in Toronto are great fun too. I encourage you to start one in your town. You don't have to live in a big city. We've had successful OSM events in Cambridge (100k) and Waterloo (100k) and a new one is planned for this month in Guelph (88k). These events can be successful with as few as two mappers. Once you have a track record of events, you'll discover that you have 'regulars' and new friends. Until you get to that point, you'll be able to help newcomers learn to use the OSM editors and improve the map in their neighbourhood. So how can I help you start your new local group? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
[Talk-ca] Mapping statistics and fun
Dear All, If you have been contributing to OpenStreetMap for a while, you might not have a clear memory of everything that you have done. There are some really interesting tools to show the work of individual OSM accounts. I really like the heat maps[1] and summaries [2] and there are a bunch of other tools as well. I've always loved baseball statistics and wondered what mappers would look like with baseball statistics. So here they are. http://rweait.dev.openstreetmap.org/daily/rw_career.html This shows my two main OSM accounts, how often I map, and a few other things. This isn't a web service yet, but I'll be happy to build your stats for you if you are curious. Just send me the uid of the account you want me to do the stats for. Any suggestions for other stats? Best regards, Richard [1] http://wdye.osm-tools.org/ and http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/ [2] http://hdyc.neis-one.org/ ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
[Talk-ca] License upgrade readiness - contact and remapping
Dear Canadian OpenStreetMap contributors, The upcoming move to the Open Database License means that a small number of users have chosen for their contributions not to continue within OSM. Since we want OSM to remain the best map in the world, we can remap the affected areas now, so that little difference is noticeable on changeover day. The License Working Group would now like to formally urge Canadian mappers to look at your local mapping areas, contact anyone who still might agree and then remap. This is a pilot project to engage global mappers on a country-by-country basis. Critical mass for the change-over has certainly been achieved. On a global basis, over 96.8% of nodes and 96.3% of highways [1] are by folks who have accepted the new terms. However, we still have globally 36 million nodes that may not survive the license change and 4.2 million problematic ways where some or all value will be lost [2]. This is still a large number, particularly if they are in your local mapping area, and we would like to reduce it. In Canada, the situation is slightly better than the global average, with 98.3% of nodes and 96.7% of highways coming from folks who have accepted the new terms. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Remapping is a specific up-to-date resource on remapping and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Help_preparing_for_the_license_change give broader background information. Frederik Ramm's excellent License Change View on OSM Inspector [4] helps pin point problematic areas and users who have not yet agreed to the license upgrade and new contributor terms. There are license-status tools for both JOSM and Potlatch2, to aid you in mapping. I have found the following approach helpful in cleaning Cambridge and starting to clean Toronto. Contact mappers with problematic edits in my area and ask them to consider agreeing to CT/ODbL. Remap the objects effected by accounts that do not then agree. I'm not contacting every mapper with problematic edits. A very small number of OSM accounts have already declined CT/ODbL for their own reasons. Many more contributors have not replied either because they have lost interest or contact with the OSM community. Of those, I've found that many have responded positively by agreeing with CT/ODbL. Some have even started mapping again after a long hiatus. I see no pattern in who agrees; some are accounts with only a few edits and others with many edits over months or years. I've also been remapping objects effected by declined or non-responsive accounts. Often, this remapping can be done to high quality from a combination of aerial imagery and canvec data. I've gone out to resurvey some areas as well. I've been able to clean Cambridge of non-compatible edits in the course of just a few editing sessions with only small changes in my mapping techniques. 1) I look at the license status of the area in the course of my normal mapping. While mapping, I make sure to clean problematic objects rather than just editing them. Every mapper should be aware of the license status of objects while mapping. If you ignore this, you might be making improvements that will be discarded in the license change. 2) By contacting a few non-responsive mappers, many objects have cleaned themselves when those mappers agree. This is a really good thing, especially when they become active mappers again! 3) Sometimes, I take a few extra minutes to clean some other surrounding objects. 4) Sometimes, I plan and resurvey an area to clean it. Please join me and many of the other mappers who are taking an interest in making the license upgrade as smooth as possible. As with any mapping, looking at the map from a new perspective is interesting and fun. And every improvement that we make now, before the cutover date will be made with the care and attention that local mappers bring to every edit. Below, I have included links to several Canadian cities in OSMI. Sorry that the links are so long. :-) Best regards. Richard [1] http://odbl.poole.ch/ [2] Nodes Created http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/munin.html [3] http://odbl.poole.ch/canada-20111208-20120111-poly.html [4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Remapping/License_Change_View_on_OSM_Inspector Toronto http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfelon=-79.36390lat=43.74990zoom=10overlays=overview,wtfe_point_clean,wtfe_line_clean,wtfe_point_harmless,wtfe_line_harmless,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_created_cp,wtfe_line_created Montreal http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfelon=-73.64826lat=45.63385zoom=10overlays=overview,wtfe_point_clean,wtfe_line_clean,wtfe_point_harmless,wtfe_line_harmless,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_created_cp,wtfe_line_created Ottawa http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfelon=-75.78236lat=45.40967zoom=10overlays=overview,wtfe_point_clean,wtfe_line_clean,wtfe_point_harmless
Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please
In regards to Andrew and Richard's comments, I find place:locality to be suitable for this situation. I have used it for places like Diamond, Manitoba. It has also been used to mark highway junctions with names (such as Confusion Corner in Winnipeg). Sam ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
[Talk-ca] Guelph, Ontario OSM Mappy Hour
Hello Everyone A new OSM group will meet on Tuesday January 31 , 7:00 PM at Coco Latte in the old Quebec Street Mall. For more information http://www.meetup.com/Waterloo-OSM/events/47592742/ Cheers John Kerr -- Linux Almost every major stock exchange uses it. Half of the world's trades happen on Linux. They're not using Linux because it's low cost, but because it's the most reliable. We sell it as it's cheaper but better. Some people think, it's that hobbyist stuff, it's that cheap stuff. But the most technically sophisticated clients in the world use Linux. You don't run mission-critical operations on Windowshttp://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/windows. You just don't. Submarines, missile defense systems, and stock exchanges run high end Intel http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/intel chips on Linux. Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst. Time to dump Skype! My new voip homes are: ekiga: sip:jker...@ekiga.net Jitsi: sip:jker...@iptel.org. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
