Re: [Talk-ca] WikiProject Canada Post - franchise assessment

[Eric Geiler]

Doubt it… but it still neverless a nice addition to OSM…

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From: Justin Tracey 
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 9:09 AM
To: David Nelson 
Cc: Pierre Béland via Talk-ca 
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] WikiProject Canada Post - franchise assessment

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Is it legal to import that data from the Canada Post site?

 - Justin

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:04 AM David Nelson via Talk-ca 
mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org>> wrote:
I have just finished assessing which post offices in Canada among those we have 
not yet added to OSM are franchises, and which of those franchise outlets' 
parent businesses already appear in our database.  Those such locations are now 
marked in pale red on the project's spreadsheets.  The node for each such post 
office location just has to be positioned right next to its respective parent 
business.  You can determine what each parent business is by looking on Canada 
Post’s own website, or by doing a simple web search for the postal code of each 
such outlet.  With this, we are in a position to immediately add nearly 700 
more Canada Post outlets across the country to OSM.  This would bring the 
progress of this project to a completion measure of just under 48 percent.

- David E. Nelson

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

[Eric Geiler]

Good Morning,

I’m eager to become a regular participant and contributor.

[EricGeiler-1]

From: John Whelan 
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 8:31 AM
To: Nate Wessel 
Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

I'm glad to see Toronto getting involved once more.

The original idea for using Open Data to import buildings followed on from a 
group of Toronto mappers who imported address information for a new sub 
division that was not available in CANVEC from Stats Canada after very 
carefully checking that the licenses etc aligned.

There was discussion in Talk-ca at the time before the import was done.

Cheerio John

Nate Wessel wrote on 2019-09-30 12:14 AM:


Hi Steve,

Thanks for posting the event! I just RSVPed.

I think a separate import event would probably be helpful - somewhere with wifi 
and outlets for laptops, probably not a bar. Perhaps we can book a meeting room 
at a public library or something?

I can poll some of the more active local editors to find a time that works well 
for people. Once we have a time and place it would be good to post something to 
the meetup group as well as here, Slack, etc.

If you or anyone else on the list feels like taking charge of this I'm happy to 
defer - otherwise I may try to organize something in the next month or so as I 
have time and energy.

Thanks,

Nate Wessel, PhD
Planner, Cartographer, Transport Nerd
NateWessel.com
On 2019-09-28 6:37 p.m., Steve Singer wrote:
On Sat, 28 Sep 2019, Nate Wessel wrote:



I for one would be happy to support a local effort to import high quality 
buildings in Toronto and/or the GTA. I
think if we can actually meet up face to face our discussions may remain a bit 
more civil and productive. Hopefully
consensus will be a bit easier to achieve with smaller groups too!

I see that the OSM Toronto meetup doesn't have any upcoming events... Would 
others in the GTA be interested in
planning a meet up to talk about a local import plan? Is anyone on the list in 
charge of organizing these?

I am one of the organizers of the OSM Toronto meetup.

I've now posted the regular monthly mappy hour meetup for the Toronto OSM 
group. I had been meaning to do this anyway.

I'm also happy to post a special event dedicated to discussing an import in the 
GTA if people are interested.






Best,

Nate Wessel, PhD
Planner, Cartographer, Transport Nerd
NateWessel.com

On 2019-09-28 1:03 p.m., Jarek Piórkowski wrote:

Hi all,

To be a bit more positive:

If we want to get buildings on the map, but we can't get Canada-wide
data improved by Statcan to a standard acceptable to all mappers in
Canada, IMO the best bet will be to split this into much smaller
batches and support local mappers who would be interested in getting
the data in.

In my browsing of neis-one.org statistics for Canadian mappers and the
Notes active in Canada, I've seen active mappers and small communities
in at least Halifax, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Victoria
metros, and I might have missed some more. Many of them I have never
seen on the mailing list (which is a whole another issue), but
contacting them directly (via osm.org messages?), asking if they are
aware of other local mappers, if they would be interested in having
building data, if it is of acceptable standard to them, and if they
would be willing to help validate-and-upload the data (with help of
the central tooling) might get some success.

I hope that will go better than the previous attempt which could be
read - uncharitably - as a bunch of mailing list insiders throwing
federal data over the fence with little consultation.

It'll be a lot of work communicating and organizing. But getting
buildings is a lot of work, and if data producers can't do better,
whoever wants the buildings will have to do the work. Maybe with more
local support even the imports list will be more bearable.

Thanks,
--Jarek

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

[Eric Geiler]

Team Canada, (unsure who this should be address to)

We are a local/regional courier and trucking company in southern Ontario with a 
decent sized fleet.  We are using Mapbox for our mapping / nav engine, 
therefore subject to using OSM data.  We have noticed a number of “issues/lack 
of data” for southern Ontario.  This ranges from lack of lane info, to lack of 
buildings, missing streets, missing exit/on-ramps to for Hwy 400 (which we 
added, and had Mapbox expedite the changesets) as it affected navigation for 
our drivers.

We are currently using a few devices to provide street level imagery via 
Mapillary, with a push coming shortly to map 1000km per day of street imagery.  
We are currently mapping about 250km per day in York Region.  Our internal goal 
is to provide /gathered street level imagery for 75% York Region by end of 
January 2020.

We are not in a position to provide map edits etc, as due to staff resources 
and lack of experience, our staff are not suited to become ‘map editors’ as our 
core business is transportation.  We are just trying to assist the editors with 
accurate ground level info.

I would be interested in further understanding how we can become involved on a 
regional level to improve OSM in southern Ontario.


[EricGeiler-1]

From: Nate Wessel 
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 12:03 PM
To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada


John,
You are once again purposely mischaracterizing my position on this and I do not 
appreciate it one bit. Your import did not follow the import guidelines and was 
not approved by the broader community. It was not sent out to the mailing list, 
it was barely documented, it was not posted on the import page on the wiki... I 
could go on. I was not the only person who had a problem with it - I was just 
the first to say something. The buildings imported in Toronto were very low 
quality IMO and the changes were happening very, very quickly and without 
notice.

But we do not need to rehash old fights.

I would like to see buildings (re)imported in Toronto (the rest of Canada is 
not really my business), but I would like to see it done right. I can elaborate 
what I mean by that, but so can the archives of this mailing list. If people 
are interested in engaging in a serious discussion about moving forward with a 
building import for Toronto, I am happy to engage constructively with that.

Respectfully,

Nate Wessel, PhD
Planner, Cartographer, Transport Nerd
NateWessel.com
On 2019-09-27 11:44 a.m., john whelan wrote:
From memory we have imported Ottawa's buildings under the correct license (Stat 
Can so the federal government's open data license) and the quality was deemed 
acceptable by the local mappers.

Then we opened up a second import plan to import buildings and a fair number 
were imported.  This included an task manager set up with tiles to assist the 
mapping.

The data sources were different as each municipality created their own source.

My understanding is some mappers thought the data should be preprocessed and 
two or three were going to come up with a plan to preprocess the data.

About that time an American mapper, Nate, who was living in Toronto took 
exception to 1,000,000 buildings being imported in Western Canada and requested 
the DWG to remove them without waiting for discussion on talk-ca to address his 
concerns.

We do have three sources of correctly licensed data, the Stat Can data sets, 
the Microsoft data sets, and the NR Canada LiDAR data.

I do know that a number of departments and agencies would like to use buildings 
and although they can use the open data sources using OSM would be more 
convenient.

I'm not sure what if anything is happening at the moment.

Are we expecting local groups to draw up their own import plan as Ottawa did 
since we seem to be unable to get a consensus across Canada?

My gut feeling is with three sources of data we'll see new mappers importing in 
buildings without going through an import process.  Are we content to let that 
happen?

Have whoever it was who was going to come up with a preprocessing plan done so? 
 Has it been accepted by the rest of us?

I note that Pierre has noted there is now a validation process in JOSM for 
correcting buildings that are not quite 90 degrees on the corners.  Would an 
acceptable approach be to import then return to check the angles on the corners 
and correct them?

Does Nate still have unaddressed concerns about buildings being imported in 
Western Canada?

Can we get a consensus about what to do next?

Thanks John





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