Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing broken multipolygons, some notes

Also if I remember correctly the whole point was to optimize/be able to process osm data faster by not having to deal with so many errors(each case can slow down the processing) On Mar 19, 2017 7:23 AM, "Martin Koppenhoefer" wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 19 Mar

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

People can't even be bothered to review osmcha, you think people will want to approve changesets? On Mar 16, 2017 1:07 PM, "Sebastiaan Couwenberg" <sebas...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 03/16/2017 05:30 PM, James wrote: > > and maintainers privileges, would be determined by

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

bas...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 2017-03-16 16:01, James wrote: > >> Even if we had a Git pull request sort of mechanism, who would "approve" >> edits? >> > > Anyone with maintainer priviledges in the respective local community. This > privilege is e

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

Even if we had a Git pull request sort of mechanism, who would "approve" edits? DWG? They are volunteers and wouldn't have time to validate the millions of changesets that would come in. On the opposite end of the spectrum, people could just flat out deny good edits which would make many leave.

Re: [OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

be able to > get the public to point out mistakes. > > 2017-03-15 13:52 GMT+01:00 john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com>: > >> Nice one James. >> >> Thanks John >> >> On 15 March 2017 at 08:38, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>

Re: [OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

The city of Ottawa already uses OSM in their opendata portal: http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/sledding-hills http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/neighbourhood-names http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/airport-runways etc etc But I doubt they know/care as their portal was built by a consultant and not them. On

Re: [OSM-talk] Auto whitespace removal?

Honestly, I'm not sure why this wasnt built into JOSM or P2 or ID for that matter as strip functions are readily available if not, very easy to code Maybe you should open a bug report to request the feature. I think JOSM warns you about it but still would be nice to have strip() auto applied to

Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries

CSDs are suppose to represent city/town limits (observable as usually there's a sign that says Welcome to X or Sorry to see you leave X), but they have been rounded off to look nice and may not reflect what it is in reality On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Stewart C. Russell

Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries

Quebec's Open Data portal just points to the city portals which each have their own license(usually CC-BY) https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/ On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:42 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > We also have to think if we are going with "good enough" wh

Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries

ca/dataset/municipalities-legally- > defined-administrative-areas-of-bc > > P > > > On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:31 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In purple/black CSD 2016, in gold Gatineau's city limits from their open >> data portal: >> http://i.

Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries

Sorry the image didnt copy properly: http://i.imgur.com/QwdQDzS.png On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:31 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > In purple/black CSD 2016, in gold Gatineau's city limits from their open > data portal: > http://i.imgur.com/undefined.png > > The

Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries

stand what is the > classification used if its not the CSDs. > > On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:11 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Bernie, I've also noticed that StatsCan boundaries seem to be a >> generalization of an area vs the actual city limits >>

Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries

Bernie, I've also noticed that StatsCan boundaries seem to be a generalization of an area vs the actual city limits On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Bernie Connors wrote: > Bjenk, > > In NB there are issues with some census boundaries not matching with > our

Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries

Depends what boundaries you are talking about: City limits(admin_level=8) there are a few(usually main cities) as for neighbourhoods (admin_level=9) they are a rarity. On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Bjenk Ellefsen wrote: > Hello, > > Municipal boundaries correspond to

[Talk-ca] Broken Boundary

I'm sending this as I do not feel comfortable with the area. Near Toronto there is a boundary (relation #4660559) for "Hastings" that seems to be attributed to a geobase import, but when I look at the geobase boundaries, doesn't seem to follow any of them. The problem is the boundary is not

Re: [Talk-ca] importing data requiring attribution

If you dont want your work reverted, you might want to check this out https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines Attribution is indirect on the wiki(you may need to contact the data supplier if this fufills their attribution clause: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing with Statistics Canada (Ottawa ODL 2.0 is go!)

If every license was perfect, we wouldnt need lawyers... On Mar 4, 2017 10:03 AM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-03-04 09:09 AM, James wrote: > > As the LWG said, it's not a blanket acceptance of all OGL variants, but > > if future lice

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing with Statistics Canada (Ottawa ODL 2.0 is go!)

Weird there was the same thing yesterday in Ottawa with open.canada.ca On Mar 4, 2017 9:39 AM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > On 2017-03-04 08:20 AM, Bjenk Ellefsen wrote: > > > > We can follow the same steps and workflow in the future if we > potentially move to another city.

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing with Statistics Canada (Ottawa ODL 2.0 is go!)

As the LWG said, it's not a blanket acceptance of all OGL variants, but if future licenses we come across are exactly the same(kdiff of text or something as proof) except the city/entity name. We will have a strong case that it is compatible with ODbL. The problem lies when cities decide to add

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing with Statistics Canada (Ottawa ODL 2.0 is go!)

Thank you scruss for digging up the meeting notes :) On Mar 4, 2017 12:40 AM, "Heather Leson" wrote: Fantastic. Happy open data day! On 4 Mar 2017 04:12, "John Marshall" wrote: > Great news > > On Mar 3, 2017 9:16 PM, "Stewart C. Russell"

Re: [OSM-talk] No changeset discussion box - Modified via wheelmap.org?

wasn't it like 30 minutes without activity it'll close? On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Jakob Mühldorfer wrote: > Hi Dave, > > this is usualy the case when the CS is not closed yet. > https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/29981/what-is-an-open-changeset > Should be

Re: [OSM-talk] SHA-1 collision announced by Google

ret techniques and computing power to do it already). > > On Feb 25, 2017, at 10:21, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's been known for a while that sha1 can generate duplicates. What next > the announcement that MD5s have collisions too? > > On Feb 24, 2017 3:

Re: [OSM-talk] SHA-1 collision announced by Google

It's been known for a while that sha1 can generate duplicates. What next the announcement that MD5s have collisions too? On Feb 24, 2017 3:39 PM, "Pine W" wrote: If you develop or run software that uses SHA-1, here's another reason to upgrade to a more secure algorithm:

Re: [OSM-talk] Spam reporting

In those cases I just forward it to the DWG which can delete/ban the user for repeated spam. On Feb 24, 2017 6:28 AM, "Oleksiy Muzalyev" wrote: > Here is a new spam entry, from February 23, 2017: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/velpatasvir/diary > > It is an

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging forest as a park?

and send them a nicely worded welcome message > with help in how to edit. I provide new users with a link to this blog on > editing for Pokemon, https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/12/30/ > tips-pokemon-go/ > > Clifford > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 1:05 PM, James <james2...@gmail

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging forest as a park?

.fr>: > Bonjour James > > Le nom de lac devrait etre appliqué au lac et nom a ce multipolygone > décrivant les forets. Et je ne crois pas qu'il y aie un parc a cet endroit. > Le Parc des monts Valin est un peu plus loin. > > Pour référence sur les noms de lacs, voir la

[Talk-ca] Tagging forest as a park?

I've noticed something going on in the map: http://osmlab.github.io/osm-deep-history/#/relation/1944638 Denis001 has added leisure=park to a Canvec forest and a Lake's name. I'm pretty sure that he ment to add it to the lake itself and not the forest relation. Just wondering what you think?

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetCam plugin

I've noticed that the arrow for each segment seems to be a bit random and not actually pointing in the direction the camera is pointed in which can make it hard to determine which imagery is which ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Permission should be in the persons own words and not some quest for glory. We cannot expect to put words in peoples mouths when giving permission by stating, no sorry try again you should have said it this way or that way , oh and you have to do it under surmon in front of the Prime minister as

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

ème de courriels de la Ville d'Ottawa. Toute distribution, utilisation ou reproduction du courriel ou des renseignements qui s'y trouvent par une personne autre que son destinataire prévu est interdite. Je vous remercie de votre collaboration. On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:02 PM, James <james2...@

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing with Statistics Canada

I have a statement from the city that the ODBL and ODL are inline and pose no issues from the city's stand point. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Plan#Explicit_permission On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing with Statistics Canada

Yet it's the same as the Vancouver one that has been approved, and had data imported On Jan 25, 2017 8:30 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > Hi Bjenk, > > > Most participants here agree that open data initiatives exist so that > > we, the public, organizations including

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

The only differences I could see is with the province of quebec (OGL-QC), but they publish their data under CC-BY 4.0 so we just need to ask for their approval to mark refs on contributors page (indirect reference which CC-BY requires) I think it would be logical for other provinces(excluding

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

archive: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2013-December/007685.html On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:58 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Paul your answer is not clear. what is it that the license(ODL i'm > guessing?) would impose on top of ODBL? > > On Tue,

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

Paul your answer is not clear. what is it that the license(ODL i'm guessing?) would impose on top of ODBL? On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:52 PM, john whelan wrote: > So since it is the same license as the Feds which you have a letter of > interpretation saying its fine with

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Fwd: [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

g forward to adding this data > set. > > John Marshall > > On Dec 21, 2016 09:41, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just to give an update, Ottawa has finally approved moving the building >> outlines to the open data portal. The person responsible is

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

1. The bad reverted data will be cleaned in the import process (we know there is a few patches here and there in Ottawa), but Frammy decided to give up on the revert 2. They will be moved manually in each tile as we were doing before. They will be moved to the center of the building and merged

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

is this not considered the exact same as OGL-CA, which is considered compatible with ODBL? On Jan 22, 2017 12:36 PM, "Steve Singer" <st...@ssinger.info> wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jan 2017, Paul Norman wrote: > > On 1/20/2017 6:00 PM, James wrote: >> >>> Is OGL-CA not compatible w

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

What I don't understand is even if there was the most open license possible, you are requiring to get an authorisation to use the data...So what's the point of having a legal group or dealing with licensing as if a restrictive copyrighted dataset that sues anyone who uses the data, if we have

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

Well then that would mean we couldnt use any goverment licensed data as it would be an "interpretation" of a license and not made law in a house of commons/other law making place, which is unreasonable to expect. If lawyers are consulted to judge compatibility with the license they chose to

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

It is, the thing they changed was federal references to municipal ones. Which is why i'm confused the license is "not compatible" On Jan 21, 2017 6:42 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > >I kept it generic, not specifying a particular dataset. That way we'll > have a final answer

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

,000 different opinions. Trying to reach an > agreement is very difficult. > > Realistically imports happen in OSM everyday. They aren't always > announced in talk-ca first. > > Cheerio John > > On 20 Jan 2017 9:01 pm, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

Is OGL-CA not compatible with osm? On Jan 20, 2017 8:17 PM, "Paul Norman" <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > On 1/20/2017 3:22 PM, James wrote: > > Old link to an old wiki. Please see: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario: > Ottawa/Import/Plan#Permission

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

Thats old. Check https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Plan#Permission On Jan 20, 2017 5:45 PM, "Paul Norman" wrote: > On 1/20/2017 12:40 PM, Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Big news, the City of Ottawa has released the

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

Old link to an old wiki. Please see: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Plan#Permission On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Paul Norman wrote: > On 1/20/2017 12:40 PM, Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Big news, the City of

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

Found license link that works here: http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/get-know-your-city/open-data#open-data-licence-version-2-0 On Jan 20, 2017 4:55 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > No we are not. The data license of Ottawa is compatible with ODBL, website > link

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

No we are not. The data license of Ottawa is compatible with ODBL, website link is borked, that is all. On Jan 20, 2017 4:50 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > We aren't talking about removing all the bus stops in Ottawa again are we? > > I thought we'd been through the licensing

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

They might be updating the website, but the license is OGL-CA based: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Plan#Licence On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > The license link is broken, is it this one? http://ottawa.ca/en/city- >

Re: [Talk-ca] destination:street

Destination tags were added by mapbox for highways in Canada and the US: https://www.mapbox.com/mapping/mapping-for-navigation/adding-exit-and-destination-signs/ On Jan 19, 2017 8:02 PM, "Martijn van Exel" wrote: > Hi all, > > The Telenav mapping team noticed quite a few

Re: [Talk-us] Choptank River

As a quick note, that is a PGS coastline converted to riverbank, so don't blame the import happy Yanks for this one. James On Sun, 2017-01-15 at 23:55 +0100, Simon Poole wrote: > While investigating a complaint to legal today in the vicinity of > Denton > Maryland, I couldn't help

Re: [Talk-us] First new 2016 NAIP imagery is now online (Massachusetts & Tennessee)

6 NAIP imagery is now online (Massachusetts & Tennessee) On 1/4/2017 9:58 PM, James Mast wrote: > So, hopefully some more new imagery that we can use to update highway > projects will be showing up soon I haven't been able to use NAIP WMS links since the USGS scaled back on their onlin

[Talk-us] First new 2016 NAIP imagery is now online (Massachusetts & Tennessee)

https://gis.apfo.usda.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NAIP Folder: NAIP gis.apfo.usda.gov ArcGIS REST Services Directory Login: Home > services > NAIP: Help | API Reference: JSON | SOAP Just happened to check out the link (which I do every once in

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Fwd: [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Also Devon, the city of Ottawa said that they will not be updating the file provided on their portal as it is only for the StatsCan project to advance(publicly available) , so for now anyways it's a one time import as there will never be any other version. The polygons themselves have no

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

:11 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-12-22 07:47 PM, James wrote: > > From what was told to me at the school, Stewart, you are allowed to > > create derivative work/tracing, but not distribute the imagery. > > You may be able

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

It may take a while for them to respond, due to the christmas holiday and all. On Dec 22, 2016 8:13 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Will do. If it needs to be reverted, I will do so. > > On Dec 22, 2016 8:11 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmai

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

Will do. If it needs to be reverted, I will do so. On Dec 22, 2016 8:11 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-12-22 07:47 PM, James wrote: > > From what was told to me at the school, Stewart, you are allowed to > > create derivative w

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

>From what was told to me at the school, Stewart, you are allowed to create derivative work/tracing, but not distribute the imagery. On Dec 22, 2016 7:29 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > On 2016-12-22 02:43 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > > >

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

y son tact, look the word up in the dictionary or you'll have Pierre > descending on Ottawa demanding double Lattes. > > Cheerio John > > On 22 December 2016 at 18:40, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Paul, I am aware of conflicts may occur, but seeing as no one maps >

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

If you want me to commit in even smaller chunks I don't mind, I just hate wasting "commit numbers" (see int64 limit, in which osm will have to change their commit id schema or support int128) ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > On 12/22/2016 3:21 PM, James wrote: > > As pnorman has said in the past( https://lists.openstreetmap. > org/pipermail/talk-ca/2016-September/007260.html): > > * Uploaded in small enough parts that the changesets make sense. This >

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

016 at 6:09 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As Devonf has pointed out, if you want to see the carletonuniversity(cant >> download I'm sorry) you can visit http://maps.ottawa.ca/geoottawa/ and >> view the "2014" aerial ortho, which seems to be the

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

skates. Cheerio John On 22 December 2016 at 16:28, Michael Reichert <naka...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi James, > > Am 22.12.2016 um 21:23 schrieb James: > > And suddenly the osmcha disapproval from Nakaner(Michael has > > disapearedI know he's on this list as he does popup

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

out of my control On Dec 22, 2016 4:30 PM, "Michael Reichert" <naka...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi James, > > Am 22.12.2016 um 21:23 schrieb James: > > And suddenly the osmcha disapproval from Nakaner(Michael has > > disapearedI know he's on this list as he does p

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

It's too bad I document everything before. http://imgur.com/a/yedmc On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 3:23 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > And suddenly the osmcha disapproval from Nakaner(Michael has > disapearedI know he's on this list as he does popup from time to time &g

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

And suddenly the osmcha disapproval from Nakaner(Michael has disapearedI know he's on this list as he does popup from time to time on this listvery suspicious indeed. On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 3:08 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://osmcha.mapbox.com/44545610/ &g

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

is flagged, which I'm tired of(thus the defensive attitude). On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:46 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Frederik, your email is very opinionated, when I have just showed you > (pixel based) why I drew that building like that. > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

Frederik, your email is very opinionated, when I have just showed you (pixel based) why I drew that building like that. On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >I've been involved in a changeset discussion that I would like to > bring to the

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Fwd: [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

*1. Arn't the building polygons already available? I see large buildings > and the topographic DWG file

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Fwd: [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Hi devon, those DWG files(if you were following the import thread, you would already know this) are old and outdated, never to be updated again. The newer file is an export of what they have to date. On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Devon Fyson wrote: > Here's are my

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Fwd: [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Just to give an update, Ottawa has finally approved moving the building outlines to the open data portal. The person responsible is on vacation and will be back the 9th of January 2017 and expect it to be live by the end of that week. So with data source not being publicly available, are there

[Talk-ca] Steve Coast meetup

Hi everyone. If you are in this list I'm assuming you love everything OpenStreetMap. Well you're in for a treat! OSM founder and creator, Steve Coast, will be in the Ottawa/Gatineau area in November. We are currently organizing a meetup with him on November 17th. A a quick overview of how the

Re: [Talk-ca] Wikidata in OpenStreetMap

untry=Australia (use english name of the country) is_in:country_code=AU On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Stewart Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 11, 2016 6:04 AM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The other tags are precisions (instead o

[Talk-ca] Wikidata in OpenStreetMap

Seeing as ID[1] and Mapbox[2] are pushing to incorporate wikidata into OSM, I thought it would be a perfect little project when mappers have nothing better to do or in their downtime. The wikidata link can help developers get vital information like the current population, current mayor, flags,

Re: [Talk-ca] Road route relations: network tag

They should be corrected to the proper format :) On Oct 27, 2016 6:06 PM, "Martijn van Exel" wrote: > Hi all, > > My mapping colleagues (not me, I only map in my spare time :)) noted that > there are some irregular network tags on highways in Canada. The usual > hierarchical

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

.PNG I know this as I am a local mapper. On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:52 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can guarantee that this data is roof level data. While I was examining > data there were cart returns mapped as outlines. This data was also traced > via orthophoto

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

ferent government levels there > should not be a problem. > > The traditional way to gently refuse something is for it to get lost in > the system. I haven't seen any signs of that yet. > > I think things have moved forward but perhaps not at the pace everyone > might like.

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Bjenk(STATS Can) is communicating/pushing with the the city of Ottawa, even may resolve to offering coffee bribes to be able to host the shared file on open.canada.ca. He's been relentless in his effort to move the project forward, but as most Canadian gouvernment entities it moves at a snails

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

I've updated the file(I can't delete it without and admin) On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com > wrote: > On 2016-10-24 3:50 PM, James wrote: > >> It was more to prove that the emails are Trusted sources and not made >> up. The e

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa Buildings has the revert finished? Is it safe to add a new Internet cafe yet?

Judging by http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/woodpeck_repair/history#map=10/45.2996/-75.6981 There hasn't been activity in 24hrs... Frederik Ramm said he'd update us. On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:56 PM, john whelan wrote: > Thanks John > >

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com > wrote: > On 2016-10-24 3:28 PM, James wrote: > >> I've received a forwarded email from Bjenk that may settle the debate >> where the data originates from (I'd forward it to the list, but it woul

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

4 October 2016, James wrote: > > As stated, multiple times on this list already: the city of Ottawa > > gave data to Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada gave us (amazon > > cloud link) data, which is just building outlines. > > Please don't change the subject, Stewart asked

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

AM *To:* Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca>; Perkins, Stephen M <stephen.perk...@ottawa.ca> *Subject:* RE: Open Canada Hi Bjenk, I have no problem with that. Ian On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:28 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've received a for

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

As stated, multiple times on this list already: the city of Ottawa gave data to Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada gave us (amazon cloud link) data, which is just building outlines. In case you are in doubt this project is actually happening or not (and I am just making the whole thing up):

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

24, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-10-24 08:04 AM, James wrote: > > I've updated the documentation and incorporated Scruss's findings on the > > build source data: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario: >

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've updated the documentation and incorporated Scruss's findings on the > build source data: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario: > Ottawa/Import/TopographicMap > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Begin Daniel &l

[Talk-ca] Open data in Canada

I've been looking for open data portals for potential future import into OpenStreetMap(why duplicate efforts right?) I've documented the one's I've found here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada#Open_Data ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

be found as polygons in the Canvec > product. > > Furthermore, NRCan did not update the Canvec buildings layer for more than > 20 years (the oldest is 1944), with only a few exceptions… > > > > Daniel > > > > *From:* James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Sa

Re: [Talk-ca] Light rail mapping questions

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:train Train does exist as a vehicle type As for cars: I think it would be motor_vehicle: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:motor_vehicle I got the vehicle types from: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access#Transport_mode_restrictions On

Re: [Talk-ca] Light rail mapping questions

Could lanes work? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes Example: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes#Two_driving_directions What ever the train tag would be: train:lanes:forward=no|yes train:lanes:backwards=no|yes Then for passenger cars would be opposite? car:lanes:forward=yes|no

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

buildings like schools and malls, residential buildings are out. On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-10-21 11:41 PM, James wrote: > > Sounds like it, but the data handed to us didnt have sidewalks and > > roads, driveways etc. Ott

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Converting, DWG to DXF to open in qgis should be fun On Oct 21, 2016 11:41 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds like it, but the data handed to us didnt have sidewalks and roads, > driveways etc. Ottawa may have exported data from this file > > On Oct 2

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Sounds like it, but the data handed to us didnt have sidewalks and roads, driveways etc. Ottawa may have exported data from this file On Oct 21, 2016 11:19 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-10-20 10:37 AM, James wrote: > > > > We seem t

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

I agree with Pavel (about the guidelines being considered to be followed to a T, when guidelines by definition are what should be done) As for Ottawa relying on external sources to collect data/correct the data. Ottawa has a GIS team and surveyors and do said work internally. So they do own 100%

Re: [Talk-ca] MapRoulette challenges

metros I believe. The > remaining ones should be mainly outside of the larger urban areas. See > http://maproulette.org/view/499 for locations of the tasks. > > Martijn > > Martijn van Exel > http://mvexel.github.io/ > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:55 AM, James <j

Re: [Talk-ca] MapRoulette challenges

I think mapbox covered this in a previous pass on the canadian motorways(and documented this pretty well): https://gist.github.com/manoharuss/3a1b4f640aaf2c052365fcb1ddb09beb https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/220 https://gist.github.com/poornibadrinath/9333f1489732c32c3ffadd58e3068b7e

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

I was wrong there is one sign up(i'm glad I drove there) http://openstreetview.com/details/21585/18 See? no "ê". On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:37 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is highly questionable about two levels of Government reaching out to > the

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

r concerns of problems that may arise during this import, this is what this process is for is it not? To address concerns people may have. On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:50 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you are complaining that it doesnt have "ê" you are going to have to

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Hormann <chris_horm...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Thursday 20 October 2016, James wrote: > > Why are you linking a french wiki page of forest? > > > > Un Foret > > Des Forets > > > > I think it's "des forêts". > > Notice the

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

Are you done the revert yet? I got a message from: lesc "Hi, It looks like some changes in Kanata you did removed all the lines that represent buildings and only the corners are left as points. Thanks, Les" Seems like your reverting is messing up data

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

of ottawa feels it necessary to rename a couple hundred roads per year and just hasnt been updated in OSM. http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public-consultations/municipal-addressing/street-name-and-address-changes-update-october On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 7:40 AM, Christoph Hormann <chris_horm

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