Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa - OpenData - Map Feature Catelogue

2010-09-23 Thread john whelan
I'm not certain what the point would be if the licensing doesn't line up.

What would be nice would be if some one could take one or two of the
data sets, flip it into OSM format and email it to me.  That way I can
merge it with a copy of the cities OSM data on a USB stick and show a
couple of local politicians that it's doable and the advantages of it
rather than having a different interface and app for looking for
drinking fountains or park benches. They seem to respond better to
pretty pictures rather than words.

Gossip wise there was a presentation last night at city hall I found
out about three hours before hand.  It was about Velo-City Global 2010
Conference in Europe attended by Gatineau, Ottawa and NCC to look at
cycle lanes etc and to see if we could emulate them.  Apparently the
city had 384 kms of cycle lanes three years ago when they printed
their map they have since added another 200 kms that don't appear on
their printed mae.  Also it was mentioned that there isn't one map
that shows Gatineau's, Ottawa's and NCC's cycle paths / lanes etc
together.   The audience was mainly cyclists at least one of whom was
after maps for their GARMIN devices.  Perfect fit for OSM and so I
made a small pitch as a comment.  Hopefully we should at least get
some additional contributors.

Cheerio John

On 22 September 2010 17:44, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
 hi all,
 Just wondering if anyone has gone through the 'available' data from
 the catelogue and matched up the features to it's coorisponding osm
 tag, and made it in chart form.


 Thanks,
 Sam


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Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa - OpenData - Map Feature Catelogue

2010-09-23 Thread Sam Vekemans
I'm asking as the data will 'eventually' be available, it already is
ok to use for other OpenMaps projects, and it's available for Garmin
Devices already. Just needs to be converted. ... and tags need to be
matched up :)

If knowone has seen, or gone through the catelogue to match up the
features, that's no prob, i'll do that myself :)

Cheers,
Sam

P.S. Ya, I just find it funny about the cyclists. .. here in Victoria,
the proprietary map company Davenport Maps Ltd
http://www.gvcc.bc.ca/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=46Itemid=11
  and so, they are not to excited about a competition map being
created that would potentially cut-out from the revenue that these
maps generate, which gets put back to the Organization.

Fortunately however, the city of Nanaimo has their data for bicycle
infrastructure available, so it's easy to convert it to OSM format,
and convert to GPX and use it as an overlay and to include the
cycleway=lane tag, then convert it to garmin map as an overlay.


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:01 AM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm not certain what the point would be if the licensing doesn't line up.

 What would be nice would be if some one could take one or two of the
 data sets, flip it into OSM format and email it to me.  That way I can
 merge it with a copy of the cities OSM data on a USB stick and show a
 couple of local politicians that it's doable and the advantages of it
 rather than having a different interface and app for looking for
 drinking fountains or park benches. They seem to respond better to
 pretty pictures rather than words.

 Gossip wise there was a presentation last night at city hall I found
 out about three hours before hand.  It was about Velo-City Global 2010
 Conference in Europe attended by Gatineau, Ottawa and NCC to look at
 cycle lanes etc and to see if we could emulate them.  Apparently the
 city had 384 kms of cycle lanes three years ago when they printed
 their map they have since added another 200 kms that don't appear on
 their printed mae.  Also it was mentioned that there isn't one map
 that shows Gatineau's, Ottawa's and NCC's cycle paths / lanes etc
 together.   The audience was mainly cyclists at least one of whom was
 after maps for their GARMIN devices.  Perfect fit for OSM and so I
 made a small pitch as a comment.  Hopefully we should at least get
 some additional contributors.

 Cheerio John

 On 22 September 2010 17:44, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
 hi all,
 Just wondering if anyone has gone through the 'available' data from
 the catelogue and matched up the features to it's coorisponding osm
 tag, and made it in chart form.


 Thanks,
 Sam


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[Talk-ca] Ottawa - OpenData - Map Feature Catelogue

2010-09-22 Thread Sam Vekemans
hi all,
Just wondering if anyone has gone through the 'available' data from
the catelogue and matched up the features to it's coorisponding osm
tag, and made it in chart form.


Thanks,
Sam


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