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

2016-10-19 Thread James
I have answered most of your concerns Stewart on the wiki. I will continue later today when I'm awake On Oct 20, 2016 1:04 AM, "Denis Carriere" wrote: > Stewart, > > The process was a success for me, the only issue was the data was bad... > I've been involved in

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

2016-10-19 Thread James
imported building footprints and addresses with coincide together(no backyard addresses) and will provide us with more accurate routing/geolocalization power On Oct 19, 2016 9:59 PM, "Steve Singer" <st...@ssinger.info> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, James wrote: > > Seems like a

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

2016-10-19 Thread James
"validated" On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Christoph Hormann <chris_horm...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Wednesday 19 October 2016, James wrote: > > Ok, Christoph now that I am at a proper computer I can address your > > comments: > > [...] > > Thanks for t

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

2016-10-19 Thread James
Bjenk said he will send me the agreement Friday when he's back at the office that will clear us for use of the data. On Oct 19, 2016 5:01 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I will contact Bjenk to get the agreement between StatsCan and the city of > Ottawa and

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

2016-10-19 Thread James
com> wrote: > On 10/19/2016 12:53 PM, James wrote: > > Does this count Paul? >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/ >> Import/Permission >> >> As its in the plan >> >> > This is all about the old terms of use, not th

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

2016-10-19 Thread James
>>>> attempting to crowd source adding tags added to non residential buildings >>>> within the City of Ottawa and Gatineau. These include the number of levels >>>> and the use of the building. They will be suggesting using a customised iD >>>> to their gene

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

2016-10-19 Thread James
be suggesting using a customised iD >> to their general public but given the experience of iD mapping buildings in >> HOT it was thought that importing the building outlines would give a better >> quality map at the end. >> >> Cheerio John >> >> On 19 Octo

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2016-10-19 Thread James
Yeah no one really wants to do that, except maybe mapbox's india contractors On Oct 19, 2016 2:43 PM, "John Marshall" wrote: > Make sense to me. Adding turn restrictions is something I don't want to > add. > > Happy to see all my Mapillary and OpenStreetView imagery being used

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

2016-10-19 Thread James
Seems like a good enough time like any other to talk about the import of Ottawa buildings and addresses into OpenStreetMap. Documentation is available here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Plan Discussion with local mappers has happened in person for multiple

[Talk-us] Building footprint project Nighthawk team?

2016-10-19 Thread James Umbanhowar
;. Does anyone know what this is? I'm mostly curious and don't think it is a problem, but if there is a concerted effort, it would probably be good to have some documentation. I've tried contacting folks via personal messages and changeset messages but have not had any repli

Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-18 Thread James
:11 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm the one running the tasking manager. > > On Oct 17, 2016 9:08 PM, "AJ Ashton" <a...@ajashton.ca> wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> Thanks for the writeup. I think this is the first post that'

Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-17 Thread James
I'm the one running the tasking manager. On Oct 17, 2016 9:08 PM, "AJ Ashton" wrote: > Hi John, > > Thanks for the writeup. I think this is the first post that's made it > fully clear what is going on. As I was re-reading the previous StatCan > thread earlier today I seemed to

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

2016-10-17 Thread James
(Frederik Ramm) *just did a mass revert [0] with his revert script [1] > created in 2009 and now we have 20,000+ warnings of empty nodes within a > small section of Ottawa [2]. > > Not only did *(Frederik Ramm) *undo James commits, but now you've > introduced over 100,000+ warnin

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

2016-10-17 Thread James
ied the new outline to the school multipolygon and must have missed coping the building level. My mistake. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-10-17 03:33 PM, James wrote: > > Stewart, that's where you are wrong. Ottawa has suppli

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

2016-10-17 Thread James
Stewart, that's where you are wrong. Ottawa has supplied data(footprints and address) to Stats Can to import into OSM for their project under the Canada Open Gov License so there would be no issues with licensing. We are using that data. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Stewart C. Russell

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

2016-10-17 Thread James
Like this one Kevin? https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2016-July/007034.html or this one? https://www.mail-archive.com/talk-ca@openstreetmap.org/msg07024.html or this one? https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2016-August/007151.html or this one?

[Talk-ca] Avoiding data redundancy

2016-10-17 Thread James
I've been looking into data in Ottawa(this is one of many cities that do this) and a lot of addresses/buildings have "addr:city" and I even get "addr:province" and "addr:country". Seeing as there are boundary polygons for Ottawa, Ontario and Canada. I think to reduce data redundancy these should

Re: [Talk-ca] French Street names in Ottawa

2016-09-27 Thread James
Not only that Loïc, writing the first letter of the street type in Caps is more aesthetically pleasing. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

2016-09-26 Thread James
Maybe this video will also help solve what Inuktitut is used for in the arctic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW4hI_METac On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Laura O'Grady wrote: > Just spotted this map of Nunavut on Twitter: > >

Re: [Talk-ca] French street names in Ottawa addr:street:fr

2016-09-26 Thread James
License changed, it's compatible with ODBL check again. Kthanks On Sep 26, 2016 12:04 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > Hi John, > > > Please note the correct French name for rue Sparks is "rue Sparks" and > > not "Rue Sparks" > > I'm only finding a couple of addr:street:fr in

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs créées par des non-locaux

2016-09-20 Thread James
Daniel is correct, he says the roads dont join and he's been there physically. On Sep 20, 2016 5:52 AM, "Begin Daniel" wrote: > Simply said, > > Looks like the original ways were linked to other ones by someone from > Telenav (according to reasonable image interpretation)

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs créées par des non-locaux

2016-09-19 Thread James
La premiere etape c'est de contacter l'utilisateur directement. Fait juste dire pourquoi ces donnees sont incorrecte et il cimprendera On Sep 19, 2016 3:54 PM, "dega" <gade...@gmail.com> wrote: > Salut James. Tu as écrit: > > As-tu envoyer un message à l'utilisateur dir

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs créées par des non-locaux

2016-09-19 Thread James
As-tu envoyer un message à l'utilisateur directement? Avec cette info? On Sep 19, 2016 3:20 PM, "dega" <gade...@gmail.com> wrote: Salut James Regarde attentivement la carte satellite. chemin 438953406 (au nord du lac de La Blanche) Il y a des chalets si on vient de l'ouest (Ch

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs créées par des non-locaux

2016-09-19 Thread James
Tu n'a pas répondu à ma question... http://i68.tinypic.com/b4z4et.png C'est clairement visible qu'il y a une route là... 2016-09-19 15:00 GMT-04:00 dega : > Encore un mensonge. > biancah_telenav a inscrit le commentaire suivant dans son groupe de > modifications: >

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs créées par des non-locaux

2016-09-19 Thread James
chemin 438953406 (au nord du lac de La Blanche) -> Mapbox: je vois clairement qu'il y a une route et des chalets... chemin 438953407 (au sud du Lac de la Blanche) -> Idem C'est quoi le problème? 2016-09-19 14:33 GMT-04:00 dega : > Je viens de découvrir qu'un problème

Re: [Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

2016-09-17 Thread James
rate tags. > > John > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:43 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> You realise that the written language is actually European shorthand >> which was used to record the verbal language. >> >> Cheerio John >&

Re: [Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

2016-09-16 Thread James
I personally dont mind having it in Native language, but if there is going to be changed there should be a corresponding name:en tag as the rest of the world can't read it. One of the reasons I don't mind is: who would possibly use it? People in Nunavut, that's who. It should be as accessible to

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa has changed its Open Data licence.

2016-09-14 Thread James
Only took 3 years.*hurray*! On Sep 14, 2016 5:16 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > http://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/open-data-licence-version-20 > > It should now be aligned with the Federal Government one so that should > mean we can import the GTFS bus stop

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs Osmose et changesets

2016-09-12 Thread James
Puis, pour le meme numéro tu pourrais marqué un faux positif car le but ultime serait d'avoir toutes les adresses et aucune interpolation On Sep 12, 2016 7:00 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. Non tu n'a pas besoin de le verifier, c'est parce que qqun a dessin

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs Osmose et changesets

2016-09-12 Thread James
1. Non tu n'a pas besoin de le verifier, c'est parce que qqun a dessiner un edifice par dessus un autre, ou meme lui meme 2- A moins d'avoir 100% des addresses sur une rue(ou tu pourrais suprimer l'interpolation), garde les interpolations car quand on cherche une addresse non attrappee par un

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec attributes (roads)

2016-09-12 Thread James
g > > > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016, at 12:59, James wrote: > > Plus it would help identify which parts and canvec are actually needed vs > importing a bunch of forests and hoping for some roads > > On Sep 11, 2016 2:48 PM, "John Marshall" <rps...@gmail.

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec attributes (roads)

2016-09-11 Thread James
Plus it would help identify which parts and canvec are actually needed vs importing a bunch of forests and hoping for some roads On Sep 11, 2016 2:48 PM, "John Marshall" wrote: > Great idea Martijn, > > One of the big problems of OSM in Canada is there are many missing road >

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-09 Thread James
Yes, they will have to be as some people get revert happy, if you dont use dedicated accounts. Also this will follow want the guidelines want so everyone can be happy. On Sep 9, 2016 11:51 AM, "Stewart Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > > If you are as

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-08 Thread James
If you are asking if we are going to just dump a whole lot of data as is in a region, the answer is no. Each tile is going to need manual work to determine what data(adress, building outline, building+adress) and to verify that the data is accurate On Sep 8, 2016 7:15 PM, "Stewart Russell"

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence compatibility: Open Data Licence for The Regional Municipality of Peel (Version 1.0)

2016-09-08 Thread James
This is something Kevin Farrugia might be able to help us with On Sep 8, 2016 6:12 PM, "Stewart Russell" wrote: > I checked on OSM-legal. Would probably work if we had a statement from > Peel agreeing to inclusion. As is, it's likely not compatible. > > Stewart > > --

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-08 Thread James
ist, wenn lokale Genehmigung erfolgt. Veröffentlichung auf der Diskussions-ca ist die lokale Gemeinde die Genehmigung, bevor sie zu der Einfuhrliste zu erhalten Guten Tag Herr. On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Michael Reichert <naka...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi James, > > Am 08.0

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-08 Thread James
so no need to > invite anyone special. :) > > Kevin > > On Sep 8, 2016 2:24 PM, "Stewart Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi James: >> >> As per the import guide lines I wish to seek approval for importing >>> building outlines and a

Re: [Talk-ca] Annexation/amalgamation of towns/villages in Canada

2016-09-02 Thread James
You can use the disused tag http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:disused: If you really dont want to delete it On Sep 2, 2016 12:03 PM, "yegbin" wrote: > Hi all. > > First post from a new contributor so initially want to say I am enjoying > being a part of this OSM

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
I agree that forest that are way too costly in time should be removed, but they should also be replaced with something(better) not just mass removed, oh well we'll get to it later kind of thing On Sep 1, 2016 8:05 PM, "Sam Dyck" wrote: > I took a break to make supper, so

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
>From what Rps333 told me in person he had worked many hours on that changeset and was frustrated when someone reverted before fixes could be applied. Could you revert the revert? On Sep 1, 2016 4:09 PM, "Paul Norman" wrote: > Hello, > > Multiple people have referred this

Re: [Talk-ca] Forests/Land Use, was: Canvec reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
because it is a tangible item in the real world, it should be mapped? OpenStreetMap is not just about roads and navigation, it's an Open GIS representation of the world around us. People may be using that information, even if you are not. While we are at it why not just nuke lakes and rivers as

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-09-01 Thread James
I'm not sure if anyone from the DWG will do anything, but I agree he should be prevented from making changes to Canada. He thinks he knows better than the local mappers On Sep 1, 2016 8:49 AM, "john whelan" wrote: > It would appear that Michael has no appreciation of how

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
What tells you he didnt prepare batches outside the upload time(offline)? Your logic is skewed On Sep 1, 2016 8:39 AM, "Michael Reichert" wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Am 2016-09-01 um 12:26 schrieb Begin Daniel: > > Furthermore, I hope you will not use you 100 objects per minute to

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
See that's where I have an issue with your revert logic, if errors are mostly corrected and say theres only 1 or 2 warnings, you want to revert the whole thing which is very bad for: 1. The community and 2. The database. Let me explain: there are many hours that go into merging down CanVec ways

Re: [Talk-ca] What's up with those forests in Canada section

2016-08-31 Thread James
+1 a lot more detailed than what I wrote On Aug 31, 2016 10:26 PM, "Sam Dyck" <samueld...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's my suggestion for a sort of FAQ (in wiki markup), incorporating > what James already wrote. I'm posting it here for comment because I have a > tendency t

Re: [Talk-ca] Qualiuty of OSM data

2016-08-31 Thread James
I've read it in the past, I do agree cavec is not 100% accurate, but in areas with absolutely nothing, it is better than a blank map: which is useless. On Aug 31, 2016 6:02 PM, "dega" wrote: Hi everybody! On 2016-08-31 Stewart C. Russell wrote: > A paper published in the

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-31 Thread James
016 at 10:50 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We could add it as a subpage to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ >> wiki/WikiProject_Canada seeing as it involves all of Canada and list out >> why it's this way etc >> >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Beg

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-31 Thread James
We could add it as a subpage to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada seeing as it involves all of Canada and list out why it's this way etc On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Begin Daniel wrote: > “Whats up with the forests in Canada?” A wiki page is a good

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
il.com> wrote: No sarcasm at all, why? Sorry you got that impression L Daniel *From:* James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, 30 August, 2016 20:50 *To:* Begin Daniel *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap; john whelan; Adam Martin *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
Not sure if you are sarcastic or serious... but anyways, I'm glad the rest of talk-ca feels the same way(sorry for highjacking fix the forest thread even though it was kind of related) On Aug 30, 2016 8:43 PM, "Begin Daniel" wrote: Wow, same ideas, same concerns, provided

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
; > I invite other canadian OSM contributors to express their agreement with > Daniel message. :) > > > Pierre > > > ------ > *De :* Begin Daniel <jfd...@hotmail.com> > *À :* James <james2...@gmail.com>; Adam Martin <s.adam.mar...@gma

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
ANVEC stuff will > do until surveys or satellite data catches up with those areas. > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:35 AM, John Marshall <rps...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Andrew, I hear you! I have been trying to add data around unmapped >> Northern Communities around Jame

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
Andrew, you best be careful there is a german that is reverting CanVec imports for stupid little reasons see: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39517002 On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Andrew wrote: > On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 23:47 -0400, Gordon Dewis wrote: > >

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-25 Thread James
Yeah forests are not an easy task to handle, I've been trying to tackle this from time to time in rural areas as to no put a forest in the city, but it's a long process as you need to validate a lot of things before you can upload a small portion of land. I've tackled a few today:

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM - Gatineau largebuilding

2016-08-23 Thread James
Would have to pass through STATS can to get it as gatineau doesn't have the building outlines available(or else I would have imported them) to the public on their data portal On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:15 PM, john whelan wrote: > Stats Canada are arranging to make the

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping exit numbers and destinations in Canada

2016-08-16 Thread James
I dont see why not if we are making the map follow the standards, any misstagging should probably be corrected On Aug 16, 2016 5:21 AM, "Manohar Erikipati" <mano...@mapbox.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Thank you Harald, James and Kevin for your replies. We current

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping exit numbers and destinations in Canada

2016-08-11 Thread James
I think this wiki article covers how exits should be mapped: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Exit_Info On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Harald Kliems wrote: > Hi Manohar: > It is my understanding that including destinations in the name is an > artifact of people tagging for

Re: [Talk-ca] Sujet à discussion: relation multipolygone (natural:forest)

2016-08-08 Thread James
moi je fais toujours un trou de type "inner" c'est plus propre 2016-08-08 16:30 GMT-04:00 dega : > Merci Daniel pour tes commentaires. > Tu as écrit: > "... le concept de couche additive n'existe pas dans OSM." > > Tu as raison. J'ai utilisé des termes nouveaux sans les

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

2016-08-06 Thread James
Yeah, that was when I wastracing buildings manually, Gatineau and Ottawa boundaries should maybe be combined into one project as there is duplication(overlap) due to how the task manager splits tiles into nice squares On Aug 5, 2016 11:50 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > On

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-08-03 Thread James
TCAN)" < > bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> wrote: > >> James, >> >> >> >> Thank you for this. Comparing with what is already there and the new data >> is definitely a major first step. >> >> >> >> For licensing, we are making su

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

2016-08-03 Thread James
d > the info as well. > > > > > > *From:* James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* August-03-16 12:50 PM > *To:* Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> > *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca]

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

2016-08-03 Thread James
easier On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) < bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> wrote: > Great! Should we start a separate wiki page or put it under OSM Canada? > > > > *From:* James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* August-03-16 12:28 PM > *To

[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-03 Thread James
form in the interface we >>> will use, it could be just residential and apartments not be in the choices. >>> >>> >>> >>> We will use the tags reserved for buildings. As John mentioned, malls >>> can have just a few tags and then there

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

2016-08-03 Thread James
ust residential and apartments not be in the choices. >> >> >> >> We will use the tags reserved for buildings. As John mentioned, malls can >> have just a few tags and then there are these shops and amenities floating >> at the same address. Could we have the build

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

2016-08-02 Thread James
that way I can load it into > JOSM and search for buildings missing the tags. Are we adding building > tags to amenity=place-of_worship? > > Thanks John > > On 2 August 2016 at 18:17, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> would a GeoJSON help you? I have both

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

2016-08-02 Thread James
would a GeoJSON help you? I have both city limits in geoJSON format On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:59 PM, john whelan wrote: > In order to identify those buildings that need extra tags it would be > extremely useful to have a map of Ottawa / Gatineau that could be loaded > into

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

2016-08-02 Thread James
There is a way to tag a building type Here is a list of the building types: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building#Values On Aug 2, 2016 2:48 PM, "Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)" < bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Here is what we would invite Canadians to tell us about

Re: [Talk-ca] Route verte 8 disparue Saguenay Lac St-Jean et rive sud

2016-08-01 Thread James
Translation: Good day The contributor "silentmapping" has seemed to have destroyed the relation "Route verte 8" 15 days ago (Modification Changeset: 40809369). I have written to him to know if he has the intention of recreating it. Is it possible to revert? I'm not familiar with doing so and

[Talk-us] Changeset 35565180

2016-08-01 Thread James Mast
I've already left a message on the changeset of this user, so that base has been covered. -James [1] = <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/165600/> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/165600/ [http://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/osm_logo_256-835a859acf0d378e1d14e88b15e7b4b952

[Talk-ca] Changeset 35565180

2016-08-01 Thread James Mast
I've already left a message on the changeset of this user, so that base has been covered. -James [1] = <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/165600/> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/165600/ [http://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/osm_logo_256-835a859acf0d378e1d14e88b15e7b4b952

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping tun restrictions in Canada

2016-07-27 Thread James
Seems someone that is inexperienced edited the Carling/Woodruff intersection. That part of town has a lot of invalid things like that and need to be corrected. On Jul 27, 2016 1:38 PM, "Manohar Erikipati" wrote: > Hey there, > Thank you for your reply Andrew MacKinnon.

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-07-26 Thread James
PM, Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) < bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> wrote: > Hi James, > > > > We are working in partnerships with both municipalities of Ottawa and > Gatineau. So far, Ottawa has given us two files. One is a large buildings > file available through their open data p

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-07-19 Thread James
Stewart that lawsuit was dropped, mostly because canada post knew they couldnt copyright a postal code and also they would have to sue every online retailer as they have to collect postal code data of their clients to be able to ship their products On Jul 18, 2016 10:11 PM, "Stewart C. Russell"

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-07-18 Thread James
Should be pretty easy on the Gatineau sode as all the address points are there, as for Ottawa, not so much until they decide to change their license On Jul 18, 2016 11:28 AM, "Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)" < bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> wrote: > Dear members of the Board of Directors, > > My name is

Re: [Talk-ca] Improving navigation data in several cities in Canada

2016-07-12 Thread James
I use to collect imagery for Mapillary, especially around the Ottawa area, but now I'm collecting street imagery for OpenStreetView.com, which allows you to download your photos as you still own your photos. They are releasing more stuff(like public beta, josm plugin, etc) for the SOTM in Seatle.

Re: [Talk-ca] Route abandonnée

2016-07-05 Thread James
Au point que c'est bloqué tu put mettre barrier=yes et apres tu tag le reste du chemin par access=no 2016-07-05 10:48 GMT-04:00 Pierre Boucher : > Salut a tous, > Comment doit-on "tagger" une route ou rue abandonnée depuis un certain > temps et bloquée par de gros blocs de

Re: [Talk-ca] restriction=no_right_turn_on_red causing routing problems in Toronto

2016-06-28 Thread James
picked up on a search for the 'restriction' key? I > don't think the developers are likely to bother checking for such an > uncommon tag at this point. > > > I'm routing with OSRM <http://project-osrm.org/>, which is also used on > the homepage of openstreetmap.org. > >

Re: [Talk-ca] restriction=no_right_turn_on_red causing routing problems in Toronto

2016-06-28 Thread James
What application were you using to route? On Jun 28, 2016 2:13 PM, "Nathan Wessel" wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping to get some advice on what to do with a relatively uncommon > turn restriction tag currently in use in Toronto and Ottawa. > > >

Re: [Talk-ca] aerial imagery for missing roads

2016-06-26 Thread James
contrées sur ces route > - surface - minimum 4x4 ou pickup? > - sécurité vs véhicules lourds > - approvisionnements et essence souvent absents > > > Pierre > > > -- > *De :* James <james2...@gmail.com> > *À :* Michael Zaj

Re: [Talk-ca] aerial imagery for missing roads

2016-06-26 Thread James
I agree with Michael. What happens if fire services need to use that road or emergency services like ambulence etc. It should be the application's job to determine in which condition a road should or shouldnt be used, not the mappers job to obfuscate the map On Jun 25, 2016 4:01 PM, "Michael

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

2016-06-03 Thread James Umbanhowar
Funny, I just looked at the MapRoulette beta and noticed that you were already doing this. On Fri, 2016-06-03 at 10:00 -0400, James Umbanhowar wrote: > Minor suggestion for this MapRoulette challenge:  Could you structure > it by state (or other geographic region, county?) and do each

Re: [Talk-us] Best practices for dealing with old TIGER tags?

2016-06-03 Thread James Umbanhowar
Minor suggestion for this MapRoulette challenge:  Could you structure it by state (or other geographic region, county?) and do each region sequentially.  I, personally, think it would be neat to see areas get "done" as far as Tiger clean up.   Either way, thanks for these. James On Fr

Re: [Talk-ca] source http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/

2016-05-25 Thread James
We do have permission from the city to import: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Permission but the OSM lawyers have said that the license is incompatible as the city can pass on a lawsuit if someone sues the city for pointing them to the wrong address with osm

[Talk-GB] Historic England designation data

2016-05-24 Thread Roger James
Hi, This may be old news. Historic England have made their designation data available as shapefile downloads. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/data-downloads/ The following datasets are available. * Listed

Re: [Talk-ca] help

2016-05-14 Thread James
;> than "Re: Contents of Talk-ca digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >>1. Re: Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires (James) >>2. Re: [Talk-us] ImproveOSM data refresh and some updates >> (Hans De Kryger) >> >> >> -

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
Ouin quand tu ote ce polygone le damage estimate n'est plus valide. Tout ce que tu vois sur mapnik en brun, est brulee. Donc s.v.p le laisser On May 13, 2016 9:14 PM, "Pierre Béland" <pierz...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > James, > > je ne vais pas enlever d'infos sans en discuter

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
t; > > > Pierre > > > ------ > *De :* James <james2...@gmail.com> > *À :* Pierre Béland <pierz...@yahoo.fr> > *Cc :* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> > *Envoyé le :* vendredi 13 mai 2016 20h46 > > *Objet :* Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort M

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
Les brownfields à l'intérieur du grand poligone est parce que c'était des zones residentielles, mais ils vont être reconstruits plus tard, et j'aime mieux ne pas les supprimées On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Pierre Béland <pierz...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > James, pour faciliter la gesti

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
> > Does any local OpenStreetMap local team organize mapathon events working > around tasks #22,#23,#24 ? > > I mean perhaps Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal ? > > Here in Québec city, the community is small , so few volonteers engaged > ... but why not trying ? > Le

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
ast as far as >> I am aware. >> >> Thanks John >> >> On 13 May 2016 at 14:37, Dan Joseph <dan.b.jos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi James, >>> >>> It looks like some good progress is being made on the tasks. >>> >

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
as a "quick" mapping. Where as 24 is correcting technical issues that more experienced users (like andrew and john :P) can point out/fix problems On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Dan Joseph <dan.b.jos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > It looks like some good progress i

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
What exactly do you need of me? Prioritize areas to get mapped? We have tasks for the buildings, addresses and streets(which I think have been imported via CanVec) and a validation layer On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Dan Joseph wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm helping

[Talk-GB] Proposal to do some mapping in North Lancashire

2016-05-13 Thread Roger James
to reach people I would use talk-gb. On 13/05/16 10:50, Roger James wrote: Hi, I am proposing to do some mapping in a couple of parishes in North Lancashire. These are "Slyne-with-Hest" and "Nether Kellet". I plan to use the latest OS OpenMap Local dataset to pr

[Talk-gb-thenorth] Proposal to do some mapping in North Lancashire

2016-05-13 Thread Roger James
Hi, I am proposing to do some mapping in a couple of parishes in North Lancashire. These are "Slyne-with-Hest" and "Nether Kellet". I plan to use the latest OS OpenMap Local dataset to provide basic building boundaries where none previously exist. I will be using OSTN02 data to do the

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray - Canadian volunteer as a point of contact

2016-05-10 Thread James
> On May 10, 2016 1:47 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Planet has released FMM satelite imagery as CC-BY-SA >> https://www.planet.com/pulse/fort-mcmurray-wildfire/ >> >> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Heather Leson <heatherle...@gm

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray - Canadian volunteer as a point of contact

2016-05-10 Thread James
Planet has released FMM satelite imagery as CC-BY-SA https://www.planet.com/pulse/fort-mcmurray-wildfire/ On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Heather Leson wrote: > HI Bernie, someone contacted me off list. I am working to coordinate. Just > got off the phone with the

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-10 Thread James
If you count a tweet as permission: https://twitter.com/rps333/status/729983088701267968 On May 10, 2016 2:29 AM, "Paul Norman" wrote: > On 5/9/2016 11:17 PM, Heather Leson wrote: > >> Hi Folks >> >> Planet Labs opened up their imagery with an OSM friendly license >> >>

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
I doubt we could use this for validating as its creating a derived work and unless we have permission On May 9, 2016 8:20 PM, "Pierre Béland" wrote: > Couche Immeubles, cité de Wood Buffalo > josm tms[19]: >

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
Bing imagery is better than mapbox in that region. For addressing do you mean building by building or CanVec interpolation? On May 9, 2016 5:11 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > Should we layer this ie one project to map the buildings, another to add > addresses, the processes

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
tial Engineer and GIS Team Lead | International > Services | American Red Cross > 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 > Tel 202.303.4095 | Cell 510.842.7523 | Skype dkunce​ > > > From: James <james2...@gmail.com> > Date: Monday, May 9, 2016 at 12:24 PM > To: Dale

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