Just tried to download a tile from http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/osm/pub and
the server is saying the directory doesn't exist. Hopefully just a
temporary thing, but does anybody know what's going on?
Adam
___
Talk-ca mailing list
For all the talk about Canadian cities choosing to craft their own license
rather than choose a well-known license, I find it interesting that the new
iD editor is licensed under the WTFPL.
WTF, indeed. It was probably only chosen because it's the same license as
Potlatch. At least it's approved
, 2013 at 7:27 PM, the Old Topo Depot
oldto...@novacell.comwrote:
Users Adam Dunn (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Adam%20Dunn),
alester_imports (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alester_imports),
and azubimport (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/azubimport) are
duplicating way geometry from
--
*From:* Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com
*To:* the Old Topo Depot oldto...@novacell.com
*Cc:* impo...@openstreetmap.org impo...@openstreetmap.org; talk-ca
talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
*Sent:* Saturday, February 16, 2013 7:44:45 PM
*Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Duplicate BC, Canada geometry
Hmm
I'd keep the accuracy:meters around. I've used that for other things
(mainly denoting how accurate my gps is in obtaining geodetic survey
markers, or what the accuracy is based on number of sample points
being averaged). Wouldn't want JOSM to be wiping those out.
I think the ways tagged with
I probably read the same article as RWeait. Couldn't contribute much,
as I didn't have a GPS at the time though. My father got a GPS that
Christmas, so I added my home street. I'm pretty sure it was the first
street to be added to British Columbia. I think it was a couple months
later that the
Don't forget that you can check age at:
http://mvexel.dev.openstreetmap.org/bing/
and resolution at:
http://ant.dev.openstreetmap.org/bingimageanalyzer/
Hurray! They finally have imagery of Yellowknife available. Well, the
eastern half of Yellowknife at least - not my house. How is it that
people
We did have the Vancouver meetup about 2 years ago (has it already been 2
years?). Unfortunately it wasn't enough for the genesis of a regular group.
I guess I wont get to be in a Vancouver osm group for a while since I will be
moving up to Yellowknife in one week. Maybe somebody else lurking
Great Slave Lake isn't showing up for two reasons:
1. I haven't finished importing the GSL area because I'm waiting for NRCan to
update the canvec files for that area (it's missing wood).
2. Mapnik doesn't render large bodies of natural=water at low zoom. The
renderer needs to be fixed.
Adam
I think this comes down to a combination of things:
1. User education. People need to be told to double-check what they
are importing, and to also slow down on their imports. Using
bulk_upload.py might be okay in the middle of Nunavut where *nothing*
exists, but it's a poor choice for any place
I may be making the 2 hour trip from my home in Chilliwack into
Vancouver that day, so I might see you there. All depends on other
factors though, so no guarantees.
Adam
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Hiroshi Miura miur...@osmf.jp wrote:
Hi Canadian mappers!
I'm Hiroshi Miura, A Japanese
A man with one watch will always know the time.
A man with two watches will always be in doubt.
--Unknown
Adam
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:34 PM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca
wrote:
I wish they'd updated the Bing
There's two methods to join two areas: you can delete the coincident
segments and combine the two unclosed polygons (as you have tried), or
you can use JOSM's join ways feature.
What you are doing (the first method) should have worked, and I don't
know why the two ways don't want to stay joined
/Relation:multipolygon
Happy mapping!
Adam
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:33 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote:
There's two methods to join two areas: you can delete the coincident
segments and combine the two unclosed polygons
You've probably seen my name come up quite often in the Kamloops area,
so I will introduce myself a bit. I did the NRN import (government
roads) for Kamloops, but I live in Chilliwack. It took a great deal of
time (about a week, I believe) to merge the NRN data with the data
that was already
Indeed. In fact, this issue has already been listed on the wiki page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec#CanVec_7
:)
Adam
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca wrote:
I've been importing in south central BC and have noticed that there is a
consistent
In an attempt to attract more people to CanVec importing, I've started
making a series of videos that demonstrates the process. Please see
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec#Screencasts_of_CanVec_Imports
and let me know what you think.
Adam
___
The natural=island tag that Daniel is referring to used to be applied
to the way of the island. This is the old way of doing things
(pre-Canvec 7). I think the natural=land tag that Samuel is referring
to is a single node at the centre of the island (Canvec 7).
The natural=land node is there for
JOSM will only delete ways; nodes will
only get deleted if there are no more ways using them and if they have
no tags.
Adam
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote:
I have encountered an issue when importing Canvec in areas where NHN
has already been imported. It's
I have encountered an issue when importing Canvec in areas where NHN
has already been imported. It's not so much an error with the data as
it is an error with my methods of importing. I'll just put this here
in case anyone else is doing similar or has suggestions for better
methods.
What I've
Coastline updates vary, depending on Mapnik vs. Osmarender and what
zoom level you're looking at.
I've done editing to the coastline that represents Great Slave Lake in
the Northwest Territories, and edits made on April 2 still have not
been rendered by Mapnik, but they have been rendered by
If you set the origin to be Gaspé, and a destination of Cornwall, then
MapQuest will take the long way through Miramichi.
If you set the destination to Dorval, then MapQuest will go through Rimouski.
The difference in destination between Cornwall and Dorval is
negligible, and both are far away
,
Daniel
-Original Message-
From: Adam Dunn [mailto:dunna...@gmail.com]
Sent: April 10, 2011 12:24
To: Bégin, Daniel
Subject: Duplicate rail lines in 092H06
Haven't checked other areas, but 092H06 has duplicate ways with the same tags
for rail lines.
Adam
I don't have or use Merkaartor, I'm a JOSM fellow. For reference, the
lake that you pointed to is in 083H07.1.2
[ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/osm/pub/083/H/083H07.zip]
You're right in that there's nothing wrong with the Canvec data. Well,
it does have two duped ways, which could be reduced, but
Congratulations on filing a bug report Dan. For those interested,
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/6087 would be the ticket in
question.
Adam
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Dan Charrois d...@syz.com wrote:
Thanks Adam, and everyone else who responded to my message. I'm glad to
learn the
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
Sam wrote I think you're getting the exceptions because you've
modified the data, but have not updated the list. This is definitely
an issue I have encountered with Validator. If you run the validator
to check for errors, then delete some nodes or ways yourself, then try
to use validator's
Hwy 1;97/5 interchange west of Kamloops: heading east on 1, then
changing to south on 5, motorway_link incorrectly tagged as oneway.
Sam L, should [http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/24446790] be a
two-directional single carriageway or one way dual carriageways (has a
concrete Jersey barrier
local knowledge willing to give it a go? It's
a bit of a dog's breakfast right now.
http://osm.org/go/WOMm6ScJD--
Sam L.
-Original Message-
From: Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com
To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org, Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing
Anybody got a claim on user user_5365?
[http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/user_5365/]
This user is doing lots of Canvec importing, and is actually
self-identifying as a bot (with the tag bot=yes). Rather
disconcerting, considering the fierce debate that happened just a
couple weeks ago over on
I've found the people on talk-ca to be a little calmer, so I thought
it would be okay to send a message here. I wouldn't say people here
are less opinionated, but I think they are less vociferous about their
opinions, and I think that's due to the small size of the list.
Shortly after my first
Langley, BC: Hwy 1 west to 56 Ave at 1/13 interchange: short section
marked as oneway when it shouldn't be. Fixed.
Just south of Merritt, at the 5/5C/97A interchange, heading north on
5, then going east on 97C, there's a traffic-lit intersection with
97C. Since 97C is dual carriageway, the
improve
thanks to this. I can't believe how many errors there were, and major
ones that would prevent road trip planning for travellers. Thanks
Richard, and the other programmers involved!
Adam
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote:
Langley, BC: Hwy 1 west to 56 Ave
Message-
From: Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com
To: talk-ca talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:43:21 -0800
SNIP
This site is great for finding route errors. OSM will really improve
thanks to this. I can't believe how many errors
, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote:
Anybody got a claim on user user_5365?
[http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/user_5365/]
This user is doing lots of Canvec importing, and is actually
self-identifying as a bot (with the tag bot=yes). Rather
disconcerting, considering the fierce debate
Rather than turn restrictions, what about tagging the service way
itself as access=no,emergency=yes, or something similar? There's
also an abandoned tag for access=emergency
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/emergency_vehicle_access].
Adam
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:00 PM,
In Vancouver, from Hwy 1 heading west onto Brunette Ave heading
southwest, the routing software advises to take the offramp going
north onto Brunette, then do a u-turn at the Brunette/Bernatchey
intersection in order to head south on Brunette. However, if one were
to continue along Hwy 1, there is
British Columbia: the highway 97/97C interchange (between kelowna and
peachland) had a routing error, but was corrected two days after the
data was pulled (by someone I don't know).
When you said fast, you weren't kidding! This'll be great to get on
the main page (when it works in conjunction
Richard and Sam beat me to the response, but here's my understanding anyways:
You can't copyright fact. The fact that a trail has some name is not
copyright-able. Collections of facts are copyright-able, however.
Let's say you come across a single trail marker such as that in
I'm not much of an Ontario trail user, being 4 provinces away, but I
could listen in ;) Any special software required?
Adam
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Ontario Trails ontra...@gmail.com wrote:
I only threw out some
I've gone through some old emails, and compiled a section for
CanVec-OSM conversions on the wiki page.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec#CanVec_Versions
Hopefully this will help people who are working on CanVec import. If
someone sees a problem in data that has already been uploaded to
Right, the NHN import in the area mentioned was done by MBiker. MBiker
was a pretty big mapper for the Vancouver area. He started off doing
lots of manual edits by biking around and gps'ing, then he got
involved in the NRN road import for east GVRD, then he did NHN for the
entire watershed area
that after doing all of these steps that some waterways may be
mistagged, but it should be significantly fewer than currently and after
simplification and joining named ways together it should be easier to go in
and edit.
-Original Message-
From: Adam Dunn [mailto:dunna...@gmail.com]
Sent
A couple years ago, before the CFB closed down, there was a firing
range for the military. A high school has since been built there, but
you can see [1] for the approximate position (the range still appears
in Yahoo and Bing). I was doing some Canvec 7 import for my area, and
noticed that this
I'm not seeing any problems. Bounding box or way id or screenshots would help.
Copied from [1]:
At low zoom levels, up to and including zoom level 9, Mapnik renders
all the sea as a solid fill of blue, generated from the shapefile
shoreline_300 (used for z0-9), which has a relatively low
Does simplifying like this cause issues where one feature joins up
with another feature? I'm assuming that JOSM won't move end nodes of
ways during simplification, so rivers connecting to lakes should be
okay, but what about places where there is a common node in the middle
of a way? Are there
As the person who did GeoBase import for Kamloops, I thank you for
checking over the work! Kamloops already had some mapping done in the
area before I started the import, so it was difficult making sure
everything was correct. My knowledge of Kamloops is pretty much
restricted to the highway and
Please excuse my use of English: In two weeks I am going to go on vacation
near Cozumel, Mexico. Is there anybody in the osm-mx community that could
tell me more about the current status of mapping in Mexico? I have lots of
experience mapping in Canada already. [
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
:
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 dunna...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's the NRN (6.0, but I see 7.0 is now
In Josm, you can check out the history (the blue book in the toolbar opens
up the history pane, or you can go to Tools-Object History, or you can
press ctrl-h). If it's a new way (past day or so) then just wait a bit. If
it's old (more than a month and hasn't been edited since), then see if it
not get something similar? You would then
right-click the relation listed, Select relation, and then copy-paste from
one layer to another.
Adam
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote:
In Josm, you can check out the history (the blue book in the toolbar opens
up the history
, Samuel samueld...@gmail.com wrote:
Original Message Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec import
troubles Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:19:49 -0500 From: Samuel
samueld...@gmail.com samueld...@gmail.com To: Adam Dunn
dunna...@gmail.com dunna...@gmail.com
Hi
So how would I replace
Haven't done much bicycle tagging myself. Have you tried
tagg...@openstreetmap.org? I would highly recommend including pictures from
flickr etc, since different people have different ideas about what a cycle
lane is (especially people from different countries). Here in Chilliwack a
cycle path is
or he
knew exactly what he was doing. At this point I'm wondering if all his edits
should be removed from the map owing to inaccuracies and unknown sources.
Sam
On 10-09-25 08:21 PM, Adam Dunn wrote:
To those who have been on this mailing list for a while, I'll point out
that these were
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com wrote:
I'm not 100% sure what happened with the Canvec data you uploaded, but it
looks like the tags are missing from lot of the ways. The wooded areas are
not showing up because they're not marked natural=wood, and the watered
To those who have been on this mailing list for a while, I'll point out that
these were added by vreimer in 2009.
Adam
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Samuel samueld...@gmail.com wrote:
While where on data problems, what's up with these things on the MB-NU
border (
I'm on Shaw Cable (in the Vancouver area), and I get (note for some reason I
have tracepath installed instead of traceroute, but effects should be the
same):
$ tracepath b.tile.openstreetmap.org
1: Hopper.local 0.236ms pmtu 1500
1: 192.168.0.1
Don't know much about it, but there is a drop-down box on the top-right that
allows you to select from a short list of cities. Toronto is the only
Canadian one there. http://ridethecity.com/toronto#
Adam
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:42 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote:
I understand its
This really sounds like a mapping for the renderer situation (in this case
the renderer would be Garmin). This is generally discouraged. You have the
address information (in the Karlsruhe schema), but the Garmin converter
doesn't support it, so you are adding in extra tags to get better Garmin
For the next release, would it be possible to get:
1. A text file (stored on the ftp) that lists all the quadtree-tiles output.
Some people might want to write scripts that can do work based on available
CanVec osm files, but it would help to know how much subdividing occurred.
Currently, we must
I was intending for the file listing to be sorted alphabetically, while the
rss one would be sorted chronologically. Having a timestamp field in the
file listing could work though.
The advantage to having the RSS/Atom format is that people can plug it into
RSS/Atom/xml readers if they use any.
An interesting system you've devised there. I'm not aware of any listing of
boundaries such as you mentioned, but perhaps Daniel has a verbose log
produced by the software that he's using? One of the things I was going to
ask about for the next Canvec conversion was an RSS feed (or some similar
The Players:
Okay, I admit it, I'm not much of a bash scripting person. Actually, I'm not
much of a shell scripting person. Everytime I need to use sed or awk, I
spend a lot of time Googling to remember correct syntax. So I've written a
script, but it doesn't quite work, and I'm hoping lazyweb
When you say Trailer Dumping area, I guess you're talking about the
sani-dump, where a travel trailer will dump excrement, waste water, and
other garbage (along with the ability to pick up fresh water). These I tag
as amenity=waste_disposal, waste=excrement as per
You've got the right idea. I'm the only hiking trail mapper for the Upper
Fraser Valley (so far), and I do basically the same thing. The trails I hike
are non-circuits, so I get a track both in and out. Then I upload the track
so that future mappers with tracks will be able to average my track
I was importing the boundary for E.C. Manning Prov Park and Cascades
Recreation Area, which have so far been missing on OSM, when I realized that
British Columbia was spelled wrong in English. This misspelling is right in
the original shape file from
values like \xc9, but the osm file has
accented characters)
Adam
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote:
I was importing the boundary for E.C. Manning Prov Park and Cascades
Recreation Area, which have so far been missing on OSM, when I realized that
British Columbia
--
From: Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:39:03 -0700
Subject: Wiki page on meetup
To: Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vancouver/July2010
--
Twitter: @Acrosscanada
Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com
WiFi, probably a lot of power outlets.
Alan
On Jul 17, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Adam Dunn wrote:
Sam was replying to an off-list message, so here's the wiki link:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vancouver/July2010
Once we have a location figured out, I'm going to add the event to the
calendar
http://stfu.blogs.ablenet.org/100/how_to_connect_to_irc_with_pidgin_gaim
The server you want is
irc.oftc.net
Once you are on the server, you can type
/join #osm-ca
to join the channel.
There's not really an account managing system that you have to sign up with.
OFTC does have nickserv support, but
Silly me, I forgot to reply all, and just did a reply. Here's what I
said to James originally:
In josm, open the relation editor (the button icon has a gear cog)
In the relation editor, click the relation you want to copy.
At the bottom of the relation editor, click set the current selection to
. If
not, it will tagged as natural=water. No fixes need.
Cheers,
Daniel
--
*From:* Adam Dunn [mailto:dunna...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* 30 juin 2010 14:47
*To:* Bégin, Daniel
*Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
*Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product - Last Call !!!
@Daniel: Not fixing
Sam, you didn't really answer the question. In what way is OSM not complete?
As an example, I downloaded the three ways that start at
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.07513mlon=-116.14094zoom=17 (the
last of the error messages) and all of them have correct connections at both
ends of the
Opened up 092G06.
highway=unclassified is misspelled. The 092G06 data has highway=unclasified
(with one 's').
footway bridges appear to be duplicated on top of the non-bridge footway
that they are a part of. In other words, a [highway=footway] will continue
the entire length of the path
This is rather off-topic, but this list has many knowledgeable people...
Does anybody know how to find the date of rescinds/adopts from BCGNIS[1]?
My dad is interested in fishing at a lake, and I noticed some naming
discrepancies between sources. It appears that one name has been rescinded,
with
--
*From:* talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:
talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org] *On Behalf Of *Adam Dunn
*Sent:* 5 mai 2010 16:29
*To:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
*Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm samples
Got a response on the error here [http://josm.openstreetmap.de
I'm getting NullPointerException in JOSM for all three files, and making
sure the line feeds are unix (since I'm on linux) doesn't help. This is with
JOSM 3208.
Open file: /home/adam/Desktop/021L14_sample.osm (2796211 bytes)
org.openstreetmap.josm.io.IllegalDataException:
Taking a look at BC 0006.osm, some questions (I've also imported/uploaded
the following examples so others can see):
Looking at Skowkale 10 [1] and Upper Sumas 6 [2], both of these reserves
have multiple exclaves. They're essentially one large reserve (each) that
has been carved up into pieces
My personal favourite example that I tell people is
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HaptoRender where OSM data is used to
print a haptic map for blind users. I think it demonstrates very well the
difference between access to final rendered images vs. access to the raw
data.
Adam
On Thu, Apr
For those who are still wondering, Manning Park should actually be showing
up in
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.0866lon=-120.7647zoom=12layers=B000FTF
The permalink I had in my last post shouldn't have any national or
provincial parks in it.
Adam
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sam
was made for/by Canada. (Besides, there's
no talk-al set up yet).
Now I have to try and convert geobase2osm.py to work for the Albanian data.
You can be sure I'll be back with more inane questions!
Adam
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote:
I opened up my
I've opened the seven files that are in the zip file posted on the wiki.
Great that I can import Cultus Lake Park near my house (I didn't know that
Cultus Lake Park also included part of Vedder Mountain on the other side of
the lake!) along with some others in the area. I don't see Manning
Many bike racks are also under cover (Buchanan and Dempster come to mind),
so good luck spotting them on Yahoo. I can also attest to the fact that
Yahoo is not very well orthorectified for UBC, especially in the theology
department and Gage towers. I think Fairview was okay though...
I don't see
It is possible to use Osmosis in this way. From [1]:
osmosis --read-xml file=Canvec092C01.osm --bounding-box top=48.05
bottom=48 left=-124.1 right=-124 --write-xml file=Canvec092C01A.osm
For my own work with geobase2osm.py I wrote a small bash shell script that
will grab coordinates from Frank's
Cool, looking at [http://bcer.trams.bc.ca/pics/chilllq.JPG] the railyard was
converted into the library/Salish Park/Holiday Inn (now Coast Hotels). Looks
like a good use of the railway=abandoned tag? [
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railway]
Adam
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Sam Vekemans
data and the (I assume) government data into openjump
roadmatcher, so it would be possible to roadmatch with what I have, but not
very useful.
Adam
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I was kind of hoping someone more knowledgeable in GIS programming
would've
...@googlemail.com
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
The roads shp files are all the same,, that is true.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote:
So far, I've got the LL_Roads2 files imported in PostgreSQL, and I've
written some functions to export them (modified from
Hi, I was kind of hoping someone more knowledgeable in GIS programming
would've responded first for the following reasons: geobase2osm.py is an
integral part of the whole roadmatching process for Canada, and it's a very
Canadian-specific script (there are chunks of code that deal with naming of
Thanks for showing me this. You have effectively octupled the amount of work
I have to do. :(
Seriously, the map will be so awesome after the CanVec import.
Adam
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com
wrote:
No worries, thats what is great about leveraging
I'm not too familiar with the GEOnet Names Database [1], and it's use in OSM
and such, but I did notice something rather odd, where one place in Yoho
National Park (BC) [2] had a key/value pair of key=Does Not Exist. Could
this be because the town no longer exists (since GEOnet retains obsolete
I think it should be pointed out that vreimer hasn't made any edits since
the blocking, and this buggering up was done beforehand (Feb 13, 2010 to be
exact). I just think it's worth noting that this Lesser Slave Lake issue is
not about vreimer continuing to make poor editing decisions post-block.
Found another example near Valemount, BC, where NRN has a road called
Blackman Road (east of a certain road) and Lheureux (west of certain road).
Bing has called the road Chevreux. vreimer got it correct, meaning he's not
copying Bing either. It's all so mysterious
Adam
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010
I've been looking at StatCan's GeoSearch 2006 map [
-0800, Adam Dunn wrote:
The NRN site confirms that names are not available in Manitoba (NRN
for that province is on version 3) [1]. Sam, maybe you should send a
nice email explaining that a blank map is better than an illegal one.
This person has made edits to my hometown that I basically
, looks
like Google. Based on Williams/Larch, looks like Google. In some places,
position is off, other places it's fine. It looks like he actually skipped a
major road because of this position confusion (it wouldn't fit in where it
should).
Adam
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Adam Dunn dunna
NRN of tile 104 is done import. Includes Dease Lake, Centreville, Telegraph
Creek, Cassiar Highway, Klondike Highway and bits of Alaska Highway.
Bounding box is
http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?minlat=56minlon=-136maxlat=60maxlon=-128box=yes
NRN full raw osm files are in Mediafire folder
Just finished up import of NRN tile 103. This includes Kitimat, Terrace, the
aforementioned Stewart, Prince Rupert, and the Queen Charlotte Islands/Haida
Gwaii (rename will happen mid-2010). Bounding box is:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?minlat=52minlon=-136maxlat=56maxlon=-128box=yes
Working on NRN import on BC/Alaska border, in the town of Stewart, and it
looks like there is a mismatch in positions between TIGER and NRN. Take a
look at Highway 37A as it crosses the border in [1]. See that there is no
road to connect to in Alaska. Now take a look at how Google maps has it in
I've added the road closures due to venue security zones for the olympics.
You can see the two changesets in
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3853294
and
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3859377
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