Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Tom Hughes

On 26/03/11 04:03, Samuel Dyck wrote:


Let me clarify, will the so called tainted data still be up for the near
future, or will I be spending my week preforming hectic Canvec imports
to save street names I gathered with a pen and paper? It doesn't look
good for me
http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/?zoom=12lat=49.88177lon=-97.17517layers=B0.


Please ignore Sam - there is no data removal planned for next week.

I think he has confused the stages of the license change process - the 
next stage is to ask people to accept or decline the license before they 
can edit.


It is not the point at which the license will change and problem data 
may have to be removed. It is not even the point at which people who 
decline will not be able to edit any more.


More details about the implementation plan can be found here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan

As I understand things it is Phase 3 which we are close to entering, not 
Phase 5.


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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Sam Vekemans
Purposly delaying the inevetable... so i'll no longer be editing ...
so all my edits should be considered 'spam' so then others can removed
it.


 or I can accept the agreement and go and start removing all of my
edits since i started.   all edits that i have touched at any
stage of edits should be removed.
Would this be easier?



cheers,
Sam

On 3/26/11, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
 On 26/03/11 04:03, Samuel Dyck wrote:

 Let me clarify, will the so called tainted data still be up for the near
 future, or will I be spending my week preforming hectic Canvec imports
 to save street names I gathered with a pen and paper? It doesn't look
 good for me
 http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/?zoom=12lat=49.88177lon=-97.17517layers=B0.

 Please ignore Sam - there is no data removal planned for next week.

 I think he has confused the stages of the license change process - the
 next stage is to ask people to accept or decline the license before they
 can edit.

 It is not the point at which the license will change and problem data
 may have to be removed. It is not even the point at which people who
 decline will not be able to edit any more.

 More details about the implementation plan can be found here:

 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan

 As I understand things it is Phase 3 which we are close to entering, not
 Phase 5.

 Tom

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Samuel Dyck
But per 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2011-03-07#ODbL_phase_3_delayed_due_to_Creative_Commons, 
phase 3 has been delayed. Or has this changed?


Sam

On 11-03-26 05:18 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:

On 26/03/11 04:03, Samuel Dyck wrote:


Let me clarify, will the so called tainted data still be up for the near
future, or will I be spending my week preforming hectic Canvec imports
to save street names I gathered with a pen and paper? It doesn't look
good for me
http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/?zoom=12lat=49.88177lon=-97.17517layers=B0. 



Please ignore Sam - there is no data removal planned for next week.

I think he has confused the stages of the license change process - the 
next stage is to ask people to accept or decline the license before 
they can edit.


It is not the point at which the license will change and problem data 
may have to be removed. It is not even the point at which people who 
decline will not be able to edit any more.


More details about the implementation plan can be found here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan

As I understand things it is Phase 3 which we are close to entering, 
not Phase 5.


Tom




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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Tom Hughes

On 26/03/11 16:12, Samuel Dyck wrote:


But per
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2011-03-07#ODbL_phase_3_delayed_due_to_Creative_Commons,
phase 3 has been delayed. Or has this changed?


Those community updates are exactly that - written by a member of the 
community and not authoritative in any way.


In this case I don't believe that what is written there is an accurate 
summary of the situation at all.


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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Samuel Dyck
So there is poor communication between the board and the community? I 
hate to argue, but the License change still has a large TODO notice next 
to the No option. This is a problem.


Sam


On 11-03-26 11:17 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:

On 26/03/11 16:12, Samuel Dyck wrote:


But per
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2011-03-07#ODbL_phase_3_delayed_due_to_Creative_Commons, 


phase 3 has been delayed. Or has this changed?


Those community updates are exactly that - written by a member of the 
community and not authoritative in any way.


In this case I don't believe that what is written there is an accurate 
summary of the situation at all.


Tom




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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Tom Hughes

On 26/03/11 16:33, Samuel Dyck wrote:


So there is poor communication between the board and the community? I
hate to argue, but the License change still has a large TODO notice next
to the No option. This is a problem.


As I thought I had explained that community update was not a 
communication from the board or LWG or anybody else official so I'm not 
sure how you can read into it anything about communication between the 
board and the community.


I have no idea what TODO notice you are talking about - obviously code 
changes will be needed to implement future phases of the implementation 
plan and I understand that those are in progress.


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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Samuel Dyck
*Decline*. You do not agree to the new OpenStreetMap Contributor Terms 
and, specifically, you refuse to re-license your existing contributions 
for use under the ODbL. (TODO: add more on what this means). Here. 
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License#What_Are_The_Choices.3F


Stage 3 is is very late, and no reason is given as to why. As for the 
update, why is it not monitored?


Sam


On 11-03-26 11:36 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:

On 26/03/11 16:33, Samuel Dyck wrote:


So there is poor communication between the board and the community? I
hate to argue, but the License change still has a large TODO notice next
to the No option. This is a problem.


As I thought I had explained that community update was not a 
communication from the board or LWG or anybody else official so I'm 
not sure how you can read into it anything about communication between 
the board and the community.


I have no idea what TODO notice you are talking about - obviously code 
changes will be needed to implement future phases of the 
implementation plan and I understand that those are in progress.


Tom



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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Tom Hughes

On 26/03/11 16:42, Samuel Dyck wrote:


*Decline*. You do not agree to the new OpenStreetMap Contributor Terms
and, specifically, you refuse to re-license your existing contributions
for use under the ODbL. (TODO: add more on what this means). Here.
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License#What_Are_The_Choices.3F


I think that's just out of date, like so much in the wiki. New users 
signing up are sent to a different wiki page when they decline:


http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributor_Terms_Declined


Stage 3 is is very late, and no reason is given as to why.


I believe the main reason is because of the ongoing attempt to improve 
the contributor terms to deal with various issues which people raised 
with them. Unfortunately reworking them takes time because of the need 
to keep passing each draft over to the lawyers for review.



As for the update, why is it not monitored?


I don't know - maybe the board has established a Community Monitoring 
Group yet? Maybe you should suggest it to them?


You seem to have me confused with somebody in authority ;-)

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Samuel Dyck
I see, my bad. I'm just a little frustrated about the lack of 
communication. I should say that I have already accepted the new terms 
(sorry Sam).


On 11-03-26 11:48 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:

On 26/03/11 16:42, Samuel Dyck wrote:


*Decline*. You do not agree to the new OpenStreetMap Contributor Terms
and, specifically, you refuse to re-license your existing contributions
for use under the ODbL. (TODO: add more on what this means). Here.
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License#What_Are_The_Choices.3F 



I think that's just out of date, like so much in the wiki. New users 
signing up are sent to a different wiki page when they decline:


http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributor_Terms_Declined


Stage 3 is is very late, and no reason is given as to why.


I believe the main reason is because of the ongoing attempt to improve 
the contributor terms to deal with various issues which people raised 
with them. Unfortunately reworking them takes time because of the need 
to keep passing each draft over to the lawyers for review.



As for the update, why is it not monitored?


I don't know - maybe the board has established a Community Monitoring 
Group yet? Maybe you should suggest it to them?


You seem to have me confused with somebody in authority ;-)

Tom




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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Richard Weait
Dear Sam,

Well, Sam (Vekemans) you are a man of your word.  You mean what you say.

Don't you?

On 25 August 2010, you said, All my contributions to OpenStreetMap
are released into the public domain... I grant anyone the right to use
my contributions for any purpose  [1]

You mean that don't you?   You said it.

Surely, then you won't hesitate to accept the new CT and ODbL.

Best regards,
Richard

[1] 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User:Acrosscanadatrailsoldid=522835#License_Issue

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Sam Vekemans
I guess the OpenStreetMap Foundation's Map (odbl only) has not yet
been started. Since the date of step 5 is 'to be determined'.
So that's a good reason why i'm actively working on the alternative(s) :-)
...
To get back on topic, I'll get back to this list once i have the
rules.txt/.pl script and shp/.osm files available of the MLI park
boundary data, since many would like to see this data on the various
map APIs.

cheers,
Sam


p.s. i'll probably be done it before step 5 roles around :-)

On 3/26/11, Samuel Dyck samueld...@gmail.com wrote:
 I see, my bad. I'm just a little frustrated about the lack of
 communication. I should say that I have already accepted the new terms
 (sorry Sam).

 On 11-03-26 11:48 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
 On 26/03/11 16:42, Samuel Dyck wrote:

 *Decline*. You do not agree to the new OpenStreetMap Contributor Terms
 and, specifically, you refuse to re-license your existing contributions
 for use under the ODbL. (TODO: add more on what this means). Here.
 http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License#What_Are_The_Choices.3F



 I think that's just out of date, like so much in the wiki. New users
 signing up are sent to a different wiki page when they decline:

 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributor_Terms_Declined

 Stage 3 is is very late, and no reason is given as to why.

 I believe the main reason is because of the ongoing attempt to improve
 the contributor terms to deal with various issues which people raised
 with them. Unfortunately reworking them takes time because of the need
 to keep passing each draft over to the lawyers for review.

 As for the update, why is it not monitored?

 I don't know - maybe the board has established a Community Monitoring
 Group yet? Maybe you should suggest it to them?

 You seem to have me confused with somebody in authority ;-)

 Tom





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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Samuel Dyck
Thanks Sam. Now hopefully no one on the other boards will rip into me 
for daring to import. :) You might also want to look at the MLI 
provincial forest data and the other goodies on the admin. boundaries 
list. (I don't know what you are interested in). Sadly with the 
exception of the Winnipeg Transit, the City of Winnipeg doesn't believe 
in open data.


Sam

On 11-03-26 12:15 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:

I guess the OpenStreetMap Foundation's Map (odbl only) has not yet
been started. Since the date of step 5 is 'to be determined'.
So that's a good reason why i'm actively working on the alternative(s) :-)
...
To get back on topic, I'll get back to this list once i have the
rules.txt/.pl script and shp/.osm files available of the MLI park
boundary data, since many would like to see this data on the various
map APIs.

cheers,
Sam


p.s. i'll probably be done it before step 5 roles around :-)

On 3/26/11, Samuel Dycksamueld...@gmail.com  wrote:

I see, my bad. I'm just a little frustrated about the lack of
communication. I should say that I have already accepted the new terms
(sorry Sam).

On 11-03-26 11:48 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:

On 26/03/11 16:42, Samuel Dyck wrote:


*Decline*. You do not agree to the new OpenStreetMap Contributor Terms
and, specifically, you refuse to re-license your existing contributions
for use under the ODbL. (TODO: add more on what this means). Here.
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License#What_Are_The_Choices.3F



I think that's just out of date, like so much in the wiki. New users
signing up are sent to a different wiki page when they decline:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributor_Terms_Declined


Stage 3 is is very late, and no reason is given as to why.

I believe the main reason is because of the ongoing attempt to improve
the contributor terms to deal with various issues which people raised
with them. Unfortunately reworking them takes time because of the need
to keep passing each draft over to the lawyers for review.


As for the update, why is it not monitored?

I don't know - maybe the board has established a Community Monitoring
Group yet? Maybe you should suggest it to them?

You seem to have me confused with somebody in authority ;-)

Tom








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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Sam Vekemans
Lol, that page is no longer valid. ... nor is accepting terms which
keep in changing. ... and the Board has the power to unplug osm at any
moment ... as well as ban list-serv users ... on any mailing list. :)


Creating a new map, and a new wiki, where the Foundation controled all
large edits would make for a much better map :).



 but I can take a hint. :-/


It would be more respectable if you (Richard Weait) were to 1st
privatly, then directly  publically, ask me to remove myself from
this mailing list.


cheers,
sam


On 3/26/11, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
 Dear Sam,

 Well, Sam (Vekemans) you are a man of your word.  You mean what you say.

 Don't you?

 On 25 August 2010, you said, All my contributions to OpenStreetMap
 are released into the public domain... I grant anyone the right to use
 my contributions for any purpose  [1]

 You mean that don't you?   You said it.

 Surely, then you won't hesitate to accept the new CT and ODbL.

 Best regards,
 Richard

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Richard Weait
Re: On 25 August 2010, Sam Vekemans said on his wiki user page, All
my contributions to OpenStreetMap are released into the public
domain... I grant anyone the right to use
my contributions for any purpose  [1]

[1] 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User:Acrosscanadatrailsoldid=522835#License_Issue

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Sam Vekemans
acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
 Lol, that page is no longer valid.

No longer valid?  You said it.  Did you mean that when you said it?

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Gerald A
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Sam Vekemans
acrosscanadatra...@gmail.comwrote:

 Lol, that page is no longer valid.


Well, the statement on it seems pretty unequivocal -- [PD data release ...]
I grant anyone the right to use my contributions *for any purpose*, without
any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. (Emphasis in
original).

... nor is accepting terms which keep in changing. ...


Sam, you don't strike me as the political type, but based on the statement
which you wrote _and_ emphasized, you've granted all rights under any
conditions. So what does it matter if the terms change on a minute by minute
basis, really?


 and the Board has the power to unplug osm at any
 moment ... as well as ban list-serv users ... on any mailing list. :)


Okay, I'm tired of this FUD crap. Really.

While I'm not convinced the licence change is a great idea, the board or
foundation or whatever doesn't own OSM, and can't unplug crap.

What they _do_ control are a bunch of servers, and those servers are pulling
together contributions from a number of people.

Contributions from people like you, Sam. And like me.

Could they ban people from a mailing list on a list-serv they host? Sure.
They could even stop having anything to do with mapping.

I think by now we understand you don't like the CT  OdBL switchover. But
you did have, until just over 2 months ago, a notice on your page that
anyone could do whatever with your contributions, under _any_ conditions.

OSM is the sum of it's contributors. I have yet to hear any critic of the
CT/OdBL suggest something like OSM/cc (and/or OSM/pd etc) and do anything
about it. Personally, if the tools allowed contributing to multiple forks,
I'd do so. But instead of suggesting solutions and building tools, we hear
talk of losing data and users, like that is the end of the world.

10 years ago, Governments would never give up data in any kind of sharing
way. If you wanted to access their datasets, you usually paid and then
abided by their licence. Now, many are releasing data under some kind of CC
licence -- but just because there is a need to keep abreast of the times.
Where will we be in 5 years? Who knows -- and I think that is the point.

I have no doubt, if the board was to go rouge and unplug OSM, it would
only take a short period of time for the OSM community to bring things back
online. That's the power of open source -- no one person or entity
controls the project.

And if/when CT/OdBL becomes the law of the land here, someone might decide
they can't continue under that regimen and take a copy of the data and keep
it under the previous terms.  No data or contributors lost -- just a new
URL to know. And, the point is that _anyone_ can do that -- no permission or
legal papers needed. So, again, what is the big deal, and why should people
not contribute still?
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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-26 Thread Paul Norman
The other information of note is that Sam did not remove his release to PD
until Febuary 2011.[1] My interpretation would be that any changeset
uploaded by him in this time is released into the public domain.

Therefore, it'd be acceptable to re-import any of his changesets as they are
public domain. It's not possible to just undo a PD grant.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User:Acrosscanadatrailsoldi
d=553498#License_Issue

 -Original Message-
 From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com]
 Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 11:36 AM
 To: Sam Vekemans
 Cc: d...@osmfoundation.org; board Board; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
 Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries
 
 Re: On 25 August 2010, Sam Vekemans said on his wiki user page, All my
 contributions to OpenStreetMap are released into the public domain... I
 grant anyone the right to use my contributions for any purpose  [1]
 
 [1]
 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User:Acrosscanadatrails;
 oldid=522835#License_Issue
 
 On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Sam Vekemans
 acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
  Lol, that page is no longer valid.
 
 No longer valid?  You said it.  Did you mean that when you said it?
 
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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-25 Thread Adam Dunn
Assuming the dataset clears legal, my preferred way of converting
shapefiles to osm is using ogr2osm
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm]. You get to write your
own tag filters in Python (two samples are provided in the
translations directory), as long as you're not doing any complicated
automated editing of ways or some such. Last time I used ogr2osm, it
wasn't putting version numbers into the output files, so they're not
technically API0.6 compatible (Osmosis won't accept them, but JOSM
will). It should do just what you need.

Adam

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Samuel Dyck samueld...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Everyone

 The Canvec data for MB provincial park boundaries is horribly inaccurate and
 this bothers me greatly. The government of Manitoba offers good boundary
 data and a bunch of other cool stuff though the Manitoba Lands Initiative,
 which I believe we can use, but I've never converted Shapefiles to an API
 0.6 compatible osm file (or at all really). How would I best do this?

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-25 Thread Paul Norman
I prefer http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm to do the conversions.
To convert you have to write a python function that maps the shapefile
tagging to osm tagging. This is not technically very hard, but mapping to
osm tags is very easy to get wrong.

If you're using Windows, I'd suggest using VirtualBox and Ubuntu to run it. 

 -Original Message-
 From: Samuel Dyck [mailto:samueld...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:12 PM
 To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
 Subject: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries
 
 Hi Everyone
 
 The Canvec data for MB provincial park boundaries is horribly inaccurate
 and this bothers me greatly. The government of Manitoba offers good
 boundary data and a bunch of other cool stuff though the Manitoba Lands
 Initiative, which I believe we can use, but I've never converted
 Shapefiles to an API 0.6 compatible osm file (or at all really). How
 would I best do this?
 
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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-25 Thread Samuel Dyck
I'm using an Ubuntu derived distro, so I should be good. Tyler converted 
the MLI building data and has been importing it into OSM already. I've 
read thought the terms, do I need to clear a import with someone?


Sam



On 11-03-25 03:32 PM, Paul Norman wrote:

I prefer http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm to do the conversions.
To convert you have to write a python function that maps the shapefile
tagging to osm tagging. This is not technically very hard, but mapping to
osm tags is very easy to get wrong.

If you're using Windows, I'd suggest using VirtualBox and Ubuntu to run it.


-Original Message-
From: Samuel Dyck [mailto:samueld...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:12 PM
To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

Hi Everyone

The Canvec data for MB provincial park boundaries is horribly inaccurate
and this bothers me greatly. The government of Manitoba offers good
boundary data and a bunch of other cool stuff though the Manitoba Lands
Initiative, which I believe we can use, but I've never converted
Shapefiles to an API 0.6 compatible osm file (or at all really). How
would I best do this?

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-25 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi,
The National Parks data will be removed from the osm api next friday,
as it will be considered 'tainted data' since the person who uploaded
the data doesn't agree to the new contributor terms.
This helps, as it makes it easier to add in the Manitoba parks data.


Since knowone volunteered, the conversion script for the MLI data will
be availbale on github :)
and the shape files on koordinates.com

Soon(TM)


cheers,
sam

On 3/25/11, Samuel Dyck samueld...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Everyone

 The Canvec data for MB provincial park boundaries is horribly inaccurate
 and this bothers me greatly. The government of Manitoba offers good
 boundary data and a bunch of other cool stuff though the Manitoba Lands
 Initiative, which I believe we can use, but I've never converted
 Shapefiles to an API 0.6 compatible osm file (or at all really). How
 would I best do this?

 Sam Dyck

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-25 Thread Samuel Dyck

Thanks Sam, that saves me a lot of work. Is all the tainted data
 being removed Friday, or just yours?

Sam
On 11-03-25 10:29 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:

Hi,
The National Parks data will be removed from the osm api next friday,
as it will be considered 'tainted data' since the person who uploaded
the data doesn't agree to the new contributor terms.
This helps, as it makes it easier to add in the Manitoba parks data.


Since knowone volunteered, the conversion script for the MLI data will
be availbale on github :)
and the shape files on koordinates.com

Soon(TM)


cheers,
sam

On 3/25/11, Samuel Dycksamueld...@gmail.com  wrote:

Hi Everyone

The Canvec data for MB provincial park boundaries is horribly inaccurate
and this bothers me greatly. The government of Manitoba offers good
boundary data and a bunch of other cool stuff though the Manitoba Lands
Initiative, which I believe we can use, but I've never converted
Shapefiles to an API 0.6 compatible osm file (or at all really). How
would I best do this?

Sam Dyck

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-25 Thread Sam Vekemans
That is upto the OpenStreetMap Foundation to decide on what todo, as
they will effectivelly 'own' all the rights to the data, including all
tainted data.
We (as a community) do not have a say in this matter, unfortunatly.
cc'd the lists,
it's up to them to reply back.


cheers,
sam

On 3/25/11, Samuel Dyck samueld...@gmail.com wrote:
 Thanks Sam, that saves me a lot of work. Is all the tainted data
   being removed Friday, or just yours?

 Sam
 On 11-03-25 10:29 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:
 Hi,
 The National Parks data will be removed from the osm api next friday,
 as it will be considered 'tainted data' since the person who uploaded
 the data doesn't agree to the new contributor terms.
 This helps, as it makes it easier to add in the Manitoba parks data.


 Since knowone volunteered, the conversion script for the MLI data will
 be availbale on github :)
 and the shape files on koordinates.com

 Soon(TM)


 cheers,
 sam

 On 3/25/11, Samuel Dycksamueld...@gmail.com  wrote:
 Hi Everyone

 The Canvec data for MB provincial park boundaries is horribly inaccurate
 and this bothers me greatly. The government of Manitoba offers good
 boundary data and a bunch of other cool stuff though the Manitoba Lands
 Initiative, which I believe we can use, but I've never converted
 Shapefiles to an API 0.6 compatible osm file (or at all really). How
 would I best do this?

 Sam Dyck

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-25 Thread Samuel Dyck
Let me clarify, will the so called tainted data still be up for the near 
future, or will I be spending my week preforming hectic Canvec imports 
to save street names I gathered with a pen and paper? It doesn't look 
good for me 
http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/?zoom=12lat=49.88177lon=-97.17517layers=B0.


Sam Dyck

On 11-03-25 10:56 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:

That is upto the OpenStreetMap Foundation to decide on what todo, as
they will effectivelly 'own' all the rights to the data, including all
tainted data.
We (as a community) do not have a say in this matter, unfortunatly.
cc'd the lists,
it's up to them to reply back.


cheers,
sam

On 3/25/11, Samuel Dycksamueld...@gmail.com  wrote:

Thanks Sam, that saves me a lot of work. Is all the tainted data
   being removed Friday, or just yours?

Sam
On 11-03-25 10:29 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:

Hi,
The National Parks data will be removed from the osm api next friday,
as it will be considered 'tainted data' since the person who uploaded
the data doesn't agree to the new contributor terms.
This helps, as it makes it easier to add in the Manitoba parks data.


Since knowone volunteered, the conversion script for the MLI data will
be availbale on github :)
and the shape files on koordinates.com

Soon(TM)


cheers,
sam

On 3/25/11, Samuel Dycksamueld...@gmail.com   wrote:

Hi Everyone

The Canvec data for MB provincial park boundaries is horribly inaccurate
and this bothers me greatly. The government of Manitoba offers good
boundary data and a bunch of other cool stuff though the Manitoba Lands
Initiative, which I believe we can use, but I've never converted
Shapefiles to an API 0.6 compatible osm file (or at all really). How
would I best do this?

Sam Dyck

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Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-25 Thread Paul Norman
I'd suggest doing a conversion and posting a .osm file somewhere so we can
see the proposed tagging. 

 -Original Message-
 From: Samuel Dyck [mailto:samueld...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 7:40 PM
 To: Paul Norman
 Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
 Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries
 
 I'm using an Ubuntu derived distro, so I should be good. Tyler converted
 the MLI building data and has been importing it into OSM already. I've
 read thought the terms, do I need to clear a import with someone?
 
 Sam
 
 
 
 On 11-03-25 03:32 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
  I prefer http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm to do the
 conversions.
  To convert you have to write a python function that maps the shapefile
  tagging to osm tagging. This is not technically very hard, but mapping
  to osm tags is very easy to get wrong.
 
  If you're using Windows, I'd suggest using VirtualBox and Ubuntu to
 run it.
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Samuel Dyck [mailto:samueld...@gmail.com]
  Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:12 PM
  To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
  Subject: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries
 
  Hi Everyone
 
  The Canvec data for MB provincial park boundaries is horribly
  inaccurate and this bothers me greatly. The government of Manitoba
  offers good boundary data and a bunch of other cool stuff though the
  Manitoba Lands Initiative, which I believe we can use, but I've never
  converted Shapefiles to an API 0.6 compatible osm file (or at all
  really). How would I best do this?
 
  Sam Dyck
 
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