Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment

[Paul Norman]

Just for reference, the following URLs will work for "service URL" in JOSM

http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/mapserver/base2?service=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilitie
s 

http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/imagex/ecw_wms.dll?FORMAT=image/jpeg&VERSION=1.1.1
&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities



> -Original Message-
> From: talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-ca-
> boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Tonkin, Bruce ILMB:EX
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 9:06 AM
> To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment
> 
> Paul,
> 
> To verify your data you could also use the Province of BC's WMS
> Services. Here are two that you may find useful for the UBC Area.
> 
> Road Network:
> http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/mapserver/base2?service=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&SER
> VICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=DRA_DIGITAL_ROAD_ATLAS_LINE_SP&STYLES=&FOR
> MAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=-123.
> 265021881044,49.2499715666015,-123.232373077585,49.2776350737241&WIDTH=1
> 002&HEIGHT=849
> 
> 100mm Orthophoto:
> http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/imagex/ecw_wms.dll?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&;
> VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=REGIONAL_MOSAICS_BC_GVRD_WEST_XC100MM_UTM10_2009&ST
> YLES=&FORMAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:4326&B
> BOX=-123.27242922767,49.2358356991024,-123.218014555238,49.2819415443068
> &WIDTH=1002&HEIGHT=849
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bruce Tonkin
> 
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> Message-ID: <000301cb78b2$9c973c60$d5c5b5...@mac.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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> UBC in Vancouver has been suffering from issues of building misalignment
> because the Yahoo orthography is misaligned with the ground and suffers
> from distortion[1]. The City of Vancouver offers some mapping data [2]
> which can be used with OSM. I've taken 16 tiles that cover most of UBC
> and corrected most of the streets to these as these reflect the GPS
> traces, CanVec data, and my knowledge from being a student. They are
> also high resolution, being listed as 40cm, but I can easily make out
> smaller features.
> 
> I've also done some micro-mapping around the SUB, Buchanan, the Chan
> Center and Rose garden, and down by CEME.
> 
> As the process to convert the .ecw files is a long and computationally
> heavy one if anyone wants the resulting slippymap which can be used with
> the JOSM slippymap plugin and is regularly at UBC I could burn them onto
> a CD.
> 
> I also have all of Vancouver processing to make a slippymap, but it has
> only been about 25 hours so it is not finished yet. If anyone wants
> that, it'll take multiple DVDs. Of course, anyone could recreate it from
> the downloaded files but anticipate gdal2tiles taking about 30-40 hours
> on a good computer.
> 
> If anyone notices misaligned streets at UBC and isn't able to get the
> Vancouver orthography working I'd appreciate knowing and I can align
> them.
> 
> [1]
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Canada:British_Columbia
> :Van
> couver&oldid=552230#University_of_British_Columbia>
> [2] <http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/>
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Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment

[Adam Dunn]

I was under the impression that we cannot use any of this data for OSM.

[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada_Import_Status] lists Edmonton,
Toronto and Vancouver as possible data sources, but this goes against
RWeait's "Edmontorcouver" blogs [
http://weait.com/content/unintended-restrictions]. None of the cities, nor
BC, are listed on the main import sources page [
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue]. When I said the BC
100mm Ortho was nice, I wasn't talking about the license/OSM sense :)

Adam

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Russell P  wrote:

> Just to clarify - are we allowed to use the BC orthophotos now as well?
> Also I might stick the converted Vancouver ortho GeoTIFFs on my web hosting
> account if they are in demand.
>
> Russell
>
> On 2010-11-01, at 10:26 AM, Adam Dunn  wrote:
>
> Here's the NRN (6.0, but I see 7.0 is now available on the NRN website)
> 092G06C file that I used for import, if you want that as a reference. Some
> of the NRN roads (remember this is version 6) were out of date (like the
> Iona Drive/Theology area). I didn't actually import much from NRN, since
> most roads were already done and other roads were out of date.
>
> Yahoo is definitely off in the north end of campus, but near Fairview it's
> fairly good.
>
> That 100mm orthophoto is pretty good. Not only is it high resolution, but
> it's fairly recent. The Marine Drive Commons Block is still under
> construction, but the brick pathways have been laid - this puts the photo at
> around March/April/May of 2009. It looks like they still have the sprinkler
> system piping laid out on the ground, but my memory is hazy on when that was
> installed.
>
> Adam
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Tonkin, Bruce ILMB:EX 
> <
> bruce.ton...@gov.bc.ca> wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> To verify your data you could also use the Province of BC's WMS
>> Services. Here are two that you may find useful for the UBC Area.
>>
>> Road Network:
>> 
>> http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/mapserver/base2?service=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&SER
>> VICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=DRA_DIGITAL_ROAD_ATLAS_LINE_SP&STYLES=&FOR
>> MAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=-123.
>> 265021881044,49.2499715666015,-123.232373077585,49.2776350737241&WIDTH=1
>> 002&HEIGHT=849
>>
>> 100mm Orthophoto:
>> 
>> http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/imagex/ecw_wms.dll?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&;
>> VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=REGIONAL_MOSAICS_BC_GVRD_WEST_XC100MM_UTM10_2009&ST
>> YLES=&FORMAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:4326&B
>> BOX=-123.27242922767,49.2358356991024,-123.218014555238,49.2819415443068
>> &WIDTH=1002&HEIGHT=849
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bruce Tonkin
>>
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>> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:18:03 -0700
>> From: "Paul Norman" < penor...@mac.com>
>> To: < talk-ca@openstreetmap.org>
>> Subject: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment
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>>
>> UBC in Vancouver has been suffering from issues of building misalignment
>> because the Yahoo orthography is misaligned with the ground and suffers
>> from
>> distortion[1]. The City of Vancouver offers some mapping data [2] which
>> can
>> be used with OSM. I've taken 16

Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment

[Russell P]

Just to clarify - are we allowed to use the BC orthophotos now as well? Also
I might stick the converted Vancouver ortho GeoTIFFs on my web hosting
account if they are in demand.

Russell

On 2010-11-01, at 10:26 AM, Adam Dunn  wrote:

Here's the NRN (6.0, but I see 7.0 is now available on the NRN website)
092G06C file that I used for import, if you want that as a reference. Some
of the NRN roads (remember this is version 6) were out of date (like the
Iona Drive/Theology area). I didn't actually import much from NRN, since
most roads were already done and other roads were out of date.

Yahoo is definitely off in the north end of campus, but near Fairview it's
fairly good.

That 100mm orthophoto is pretty good. Not only is it high resolution, but
it's fairly recent. The Marine Drive Commons Block is still under
construction, but the brick pathways have been laid - this puts the photo at
around March/April/May of 2009. It looks like they still have the sprinkler
system piping laid out on the ground, but my memory is hazy on when that was
installed.

Adam

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Tonkin, Bruce ILMB:EX <
bruce.ton...@gov.bc.ca> wrote:

> Paul,
>
> To verify your data you could also use the Province of BC's WMS
> Services. Here are two that you may find useful for the UBC Area.
>
> Road Network:
> http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/mapserver/base2?service=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&SER
> VICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=DRA_DIGITAL_ROAD_ATLAS_LINE_SP&STYLES=&FOR
> MAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=-123.
> 265021881044,49.2499715666015,-123.232373077585,49.2776350737241&WIDTH=1
> 002&HEIGHT=849
>
> 100mm Orthophoto:
> http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/imagex/ecw_wms.dll?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&;
> VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=REGIONAL_MOSAICS_BC_GVRD_WEST_XC100MM_UTM10_2009&ST
> YLES=&FORMAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:4326&B
> BOX=-123.27242922767,49.2358356991024,-123.218014555238,49.2819415443068
> &WIDTH=1002&HEIGHT=849
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce Tonkin
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:18:03 -0700
> From: "Paul Norman" 
> To: 
> Subject: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment
> Message-ID: <000301cb78b2$9c973c60$d5c5b5...@mac.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="us-ascii"
>
> UBC in Vancouver has been suffering from issues of building misalignment
> because the Yahoo orthography is misaligned with the ground and suffers
> from
> distortion[1]. The City of Vancouver offers some mapping data [2] which
> can
> be used with OSM. I've taken 16 tiles that cover most of UBC and
> corrected
> most of the streets to these as these reflect the GPS traces, CanVec
> data,
> and my knowledge from being a student. They are also high resolution,
> being
> listed as 40cm, but I can easily make out smaller features.
>
> I've also done some micro-mapping around the SUB, Buchanan, the Chan
> Center
> and Rose garden, and down by CEME.
>
> As the process to convert the .ecw files is a long and computationally
> heavy
> one if anyone wants the resulting slippymap which can be used with the
> JOSM
> slippymap plugin and is regularly at UBC I could burn them onto a CD.
>
> I also have all of Vancouver processing to make a slippymap, but it has
> only
> been about 25 hours so it is not finished yet. If anyone wants that,
> it'll
> take multiple DVDs. Of course, anyone could recreate it 

Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment

[Adam Dunn]

Here's the NRN (6.0, but I see 7.0 is now available on the NRN website)
092G06C file that I used for import, if you want that as a reference. Some
of the NRN roads (remember this is version 6) were out of date (like the
Iona Drive/Theology area). I didn't actually import much from NRN, since
most roads were already done and other roads were out of date.

Yahoo is definitely off in the north end of campus, but near Fairview it's
fairly good.

That 100mm orthophoto is pretty good. Not only is it high resolution, but
it's fairly recent. The Marine Drive Commons Block is still under
construction, but the brick pathways have been laid - this puts the photo at
around March/April/May of 2009. It looks like they still have the sprinkler
system piping laid out on the ground, but my memory is hazy on when that was
installed.

Adam

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Tonkin, Bruce ILMB:EX <
bruce.ton...@gov.bc.ca> wrote:

> Paul,
>
> To verify your data you could also use the Province of BC's WMS
> Services. Here are two that you may find useful for the UBC Area.
>
> Road Network:
> http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/mapserver/base2?service=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&SER
> VICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=DRA_DIGITAL_ROAD_ATLAS_LINE_SP&STYLES=&FOR
> MAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=-123.
> 265021881044,49.2499715666015,-123.232373077585,49.2776350737241&WIDTH=1
> 002&HEIGHT=849
>
> 100mm Orthophoto:
> http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/imagex/ecw_wms.dll?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&;
> VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=REGIONAL_MOSAICS_BC_GVRD_WEST_XC100MM_UTM10_2009&ST
> YLES=&FORMAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:4326&B
> BOX=-123.27242922767,49.2358356991024,-123.218014555238,49.2819415443068
> &WIDTH=1002&HEIGHT=849
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce Tonkin
>
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> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:18:03 -0700
> From: "Paul Norman" 
> To: 
> Subject: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment
> Message-ID: <000301cb78b2$9c973c60$d5c5b5...@mac.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="us-ascii"
>
> UBC in Vancouver has been suffering from issues of building misalignment
> because the Yahoo orthography is misaligned with the ground and suffers
> from
> distortion[1]. The City of Vancouver offers some mapping data [2] which
> can
> be used with OSM. I've taken 16 tiles that cover most of UBC and
> corrected
> most of the streets to these as these reflect the GPS traces, CanVec
> data,
> and my knowledge from being a student. They are also high resolution,
> being
> listed as 40cm, but I can easily make out smaller features.
>
> I've also done some micro-mapping around the SUB, Buchanan, the Chan
> Center
> and Rose garden, and down by CEME.
>
> As the process to convert the .ecw files is a long and computationally
> heavy
> one if anyone wants the resulting slippymap which can be used with the
> JOSM
> slippymap plugin and is regularly at UBC I could burn them onto a CD.
>
> I also have all of Vancouver processing to make a slippymap, but it has
> only
> been about 25 hours so it is not finished yet. If anyone wants that,
> it'll
> take multiple DVDs. Of course, anyone could recreate it from the
> downloaded
> files but anticipate gdal2tiles taking about 30-40 hours on a good
> computer.
>
> If anyone notices misaligned streets at UBC and isn't able to get the
> Vancouver orthography working I'd appreciate knowing and 

Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment

[Tonkin, Bruce ILMB:EX]

Paul,

To verify your data you could also use the Province of BC's WMS
Services. Here are two that you may find useful for the UBC Area.

Road Network:
http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/mapserver/base2?service=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&SER
VICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=DRA_DIGITAL_ROAD_ATLAS_LINE_SP&STYLES=&FOR
MAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=-123.
265021881044,49.2499715666015,-123.232373077585,49.2776350737241&WIDTH=1
002&HEIGHT=849

100mm Orthophoto:
http://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/imagex/ecw_wms.dll?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&;
VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=REGIONAL_MOSAICS_BC_GVRD_WEST_XC100MM_UTM10_2009&ST
YLES=&FORMAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:4326&B
BOX=-123.27242922767,49.2358356991024,-123.218014555238,49.2819415443068
&WIDTH=1002&HEIGHT=849


Thanks,

Bruce Tonkin

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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:18:03 -0700
From: "Paul Norman" 
To: 
Subject: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment
Message-ID: <000301cb78b2$9c973c60$d5c5b5...@mac.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="us-ascii"

UBC in Vancouver has been suffering from issues of building misalignment
because the Yahoo orthography is misaligned with the ground and suffers
from
distortion[1]. The City of Vancouver offers some mapping data [2] which
can
be used with OSM. I've taken 16 tiles that cover most of UBC and
corrected
most of the streets to these as these reflect the GPS traces, CanVec
data,
and my knowledge from being a student. They are also high resolution,
being
listed as 40cm, but I can easily make out smaller features. 

I've also done some micro-mapping around the SUB, Buchanan, the Chan
Center
and Rose garden, and down by CEME.

As the process to convert the .ecw files is a long and computationally
heavy
one if anyone wants the resulting slippymap which can be used with the
JOSM
slippymap plugin and is regularly at UBC I could burn them onto a CD.

I also have all of Vancouver processing to make a slippymap, but it has
only
been about 25 hours so it is not finished yet. If anyone wants that,
it'll
take multiple DVDs. Of course, anyone could recreate it from the
downloaded
files but anticipate gdal2tiles taking about 30-40 hours on a good
computer.

If anyone notices misaligned streets at UBC and isn't able to get the
Vancouver orthography working I'd appreciate knowing and I can align
them.

[1]

[2] 




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Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment

[Paul Norman]

CanVec was what I aligned to. That and local knowledge - I know parts of UBC
extremely well, having been there for about 7-8 years. 

If the Vancouver license isn't compatible with OSM the wiki should be edited
- it says it's acceptable as is.

-Original Message-
From: samvekem...@gmail.com [mailto:samvekem...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sam
Vekemans
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:25 AM
To: john whelan
Cc: Paul Norman; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment


were still waiting for OpenStreetMap to change it's licence :) lol...
but anyway, geocommons.com is a good temporary home for the p files :) and
having the data on standby just waiting to use used is helpfull.


cheers,
sam

On 10/31/10, john whelan  wrote:
> I was under the impression that the City of Vancouver "Open" data 
> along with Ottawa's and Calgary's wasn't quite open enough for OSM 
> use.  I assume you aligned with CANVEC data and merely visually 
> confirmed it against Vancouver's data?
>
> I understand they were looking at changing the license, if you have 
> any news on this I'd be grateful.
>
> Thanks John
>
> On 31 October 2010 00:18, Paul Norman  wrote:
>
>> UBC in Vancouver has been suffering from issues of building 
>> misalignment because the Yahoo orthography is misaligned with the 
>> ground and suffers from distortion[1]. The City of Vancouver offers 
>> some mapping data [2] which can be used with OSM. I've taken 16 tiles 
>> that cover most of UBC and corrected most of the streets to these as 
>> these reflect the GPS traces, CanVec data, and my knowledge from 
>> being a student. They are also high resolution, being listed as 40cm, 
>> but I can easily make out smaller features.
>>
>> I've also done some micro-mapping around the SUB, Buchanan, the Chan 
>> Center and Rose garden, and down by CEME.
>>
>> As the process to convert the .ecw files is a long and 
>> computationally heavy one if anyone wants the resulting slippymap 
>> which can be used with the JOSM slippymap plugin and is regularly at 
>> UBC I could burn them onto a CD.
>>
>> I also have all of Vancouver processing to make a slippymap, but it 
>> has only been about 25 hours so it is not finished yet. If anyone 
>> wants that, it'll take multiple DVDs. Of course, anyone could 
>> recreate it from the downloaded files but anticipate gdal2tiles 
>> taking about 30-40 hours on a good computer.
>>
>> If anyone notices misaligned streets at UBC and isn't able to get the 
>> Vancouver orthography working I'd appreciate knowing and I can align
them.
>>
>> [1]
>> <
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Canada:British_Columb
>> ia:Van 
>> couver&oldid=552230#University_of_British_Columbia<http://wiki.openst
>> reetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Canada:British_Columbia:Van%0Acouver&ol
>> did=552230#University_of_British_Columbia>
>> >
>> [2] <http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/>
>>
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Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment

[Sam Vekemans]

were still waiting for OpenStreetMap to change it's licence :)
lol...
but anyway, geocommons.com is a good temporary home for the p files :)
and having the data on standby just waiting to use used is helpfull.


cheers,
sam

On 10/31/10, john whelan  wrote:
> I was under the impression that the City of Vancouver "Open" data along with
> Ottawa's and Calgary's wasn't quite open enough for OSM use.  I assume you
> aligned with CANVEC data and merely visually confirmed it against
> Vancouver's data?
>
> I understand they were looking at changing the license, if you have any news
> on this I'd be grateful.
>
> Thanks John
>
> On 31 October 2010 00:18, Paul Norman  wrote:
>
>> UBC in Vancouver has been suffering from issues of building misalignment
>> because the Yahoo orthography is misaligned with the ground and suffers
>> from
>> distortion[1]. The City of Vancouver offers some mapping data [2] which
>> can
>> be used with OSM. I've taken 16 tiles that cover most of UBC and corrected
>> most of the streets to these as these reflect the GPS traces, CanVec data,
>> and my knowledge from being a student. They are also high resolution,
>> being
>> listed as 40cm, but I can easily make out smaller features.
>>
>> I've also done some micro-mapping around the SUB, Buchanan, the Chan
>> Center
>> and Rose garden, and down by CEME.
>>
>> As the process to convert the .ecw files is a long and computationally
>> heavy
>> one if anyone wants the resulting slippymap which can be used with the
>> JOSM
>> slippymap plugin and is regularly at UBC I could burn them onto a CD.
>>
>> I also have all of Vancouver processing to make a slippymap, but it has
>> only
>> been about 25 hours so it is not finished yet. If anyone wants that, it'll
>> take multiple DVDs. Of course, anyone could recreate it from the
>> downloaded
>> files but anticipate gdal2tiles taking about 30-40 hours on a good
>> computer.
>>
>> If anyone notices misaligned streets at UBC and isn't able to get the
>> Vancouver orthography working I'd appreciate knowing and I can align them.
>>
>> [1]
>> <
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Canada:British_Columbia:Van
>> couver&oldid=552230#University_of_British_Columbia
>> >
>> [2] 
>>
>>
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Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment

[john whelan]

I was under the impression that the City of Vancouver "Open" data along with
Ottawa's and Calgary's wasn't quite open enough for OSM use.  I assume you
aligned with CANVEC data and merely visually confirmed it against
Vancouver's data?

I understand they were looking at changing the license, if you have any news
on this I'd be grateful.

Thanks John

On 31 October 2010 00:18, Paul Norman  wrote:

> UBC in Vancouver has been suffering from issues of building misalignment
> because the Yahoo orthography is misaligned with the ground and suffers
> from
> distortion[1]. The City of Vancouver offers some mapping data [2] which can
> be used with OSM. I've taken 16 tiles that cover most of UBC and corrected
> most of the streets to these as these reflect the GPS traces, CanVec data,
> and my knowledge from being a student. They are also high resolution, being
> listed as 40cm, but I can easily make out smaller features.
>
> I've also done some micro-mapping around the SUB, Buchanan, the Chan Center
> and Rose garden, and down by CEME.
>
> As the process to convert the .ecw files is a long and computationally
> heavy
> one if anyone wants the resulting slippymap which can be used with the JOSM
> slippymap plugin and is regularly at UBC I could burn them onto a CD.
>
> I also have all of Vancouver processing to make a slippymap, but it has
> only
> been about 25 hours so it is not finished yet. If anyone wants that, it'll
> take multiple DVDs. Of course, anyone could recreate it from the downloaded
> files but anticipate gdal2tiles taking about 30-40 hours on a good
> computer.
>
> If anyone notices misaligned streets at UBC and isn't able to get the
> Vancouver orthography working I'd appreciate knowing and I can align them.
>
> [1]
> <
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Canada:British_Columbia:Van
> couver&oldid=552230#University_of_British_Columbia
> >
> [2] 
>
>
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