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cool,
Just forwarding your idea to the osm-fork mailing list.
re: a list of changesets that are to be removed, as there is a place for
all of the removed data to be added to.
cheers,
Sam
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My suspicion is that a system where each user can choose a different
licence (or set of licences) for their contribution would either fall apart
(as some
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seem to have me confused with somebody in authority ;-)
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Well, Sam (Vekemans) you are a man of your word. You mean what you say.
Don't you?
On 25 August 2010, you said, All my contributions to OpenStreetMap
are released into the public domain... I grant anyone the right to use
my contributions for any purpose [1]
You mean that don't you? You
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, Samuel Dyck samueld...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Sam, that saves me a lot of work. Is all the tainted data
being removed Friday, or just yours?
Sam
On 11-03-25 10:29 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:
Hi,
The National Parks data will be removed from the osm api next friday,
as it will be considered
Hi Daniel
Cool thanks, this also helps
This could also explain for some of 'holes' that were seeing on CommonMap
http://api.development.i386.commonmap.org/?lat=49.7172lon=-121.122zoom=12layers=BFTF
http://api.development.i386.commonmap.org/?lat=49.7172lon=-121.122zoom=12layers=BFTFas
it
Trails ontra...@gmail.com wrote:
I only threw out some ideas, I think a dialougue is important, I see huge
amount of data going by and we should also talk about OSM and how you guys
are doing.
Thanks
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Sam Vekemans
acrosscanadatra...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Patrick
what you need, how I can help or how I can be a positive
agent of change.
Directions please - (give me a time to talk on the phone with you)
Thanks
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Sam Vekemans
acrosscanadatra...@gmail.comwrote:
Yup, your also part of the OpenStreetMap Community
Hi Patrick,
I'm not really sure if OpenStreetMap is actually suited to fit your
needs as far as creating a master plan.
I don't think that it's designed for it.
There are other options, available for collaboration, just not OpenStreetMap.
I could find time later next week, as my independent
...lol
But it makes the map look pritty :-)
... and on normal maps you do see this..
I could put a request in to wipe all my edits ... sice i was the one
who added it in.
Besides the 'routing restrictings and anti-canoests... is their
another reason people don't like an arrow on rivers?
Great! Were getting somewhere..
Now lets discuss the most appropriate tag that can be used to indicate
the rendering of a flow line arrow.
How's
flowline=arrow?
Is their a better tag?
Thanks,
Sam
On 2/22/11, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Sam
Michael Smith smit...@draconic.ca wrote:
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 06:34 -0800, Sam Vekemans wrote:
Great! Were getting somewhere..
Now lets discuss the most appropriate tag that can be used to indicate
the rendering of a flow line arrow.
It's not about tagging the rivers to say 'there should
Hi all,
I get a regular notification of each change on the spreadsheet. I'm
just monitoring it to see that no super big changes happen, that make
others loose their place :)
At some point, users will get an error of 'too many cells', please let
me know if that is encountered, then I can fix it
are
available, but do plan on getting the Samsung Galaxy Tab (because it's
Android) .. saving pennys for it.
Will be cool to see the standalone contour/shading, as it makes custom
transparent rendering of features easier i think :)
/end of extra thoughts
cheers,
sam
On 2/4/11, Sam Vekemans
February 2011 14:16, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
FYI,
Just an observation.
On the talk-ca mailing list, where i have attended and creating osm -
'mapping parties', i have noticed where the difference is from an
osgeo 'informal meeting'
The OSGeo Community (all things
oops,
Point taken, understood.
I'll get back to my work now.
Feel free to remind me about this blunder if i do it again.
Regards,
Sam
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Sam, you start with discussing the types of people in the communities
,
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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote:
On 2 February 2011 21:02, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
(talk-ca list).
With thanks to Frederik Grant, who have kindly flagged all of my wiki
contribution pages for deletion
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote:
On 2 February 2011 21:42, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca
wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec
The following pages should not have been marked for deletion and I'd like
to
see them
FYI,
Just an observation.
On the talk-ca mailing list, where i have attended and creating osm -
'mapping parties', i have noticed where the difference is from an
osgeo 'informal meeting'
The OSGeo Community (all things geo-related) is a much more
professional group. The group members tend to
CommonMap fosm, and perhaps wikimapia in the future, and anyone who
likes to use the great josm software.
... I'm using it to convert .osm to .gpx and .osm to .img
After using shp-to-osm.jar, i use JOSM to work with the data
... I should be able to trace what i like, and create what i want ...
Oops, I mean restrict Imagery URLs.
... sorry got carried away on the last message :)
On 1/30/11, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
CommonMap fosm, and perhaps wikimapia in the future, and anyone who
likes to use the great josm software.
... I'm using it to convert .osm to .gpx
Hi,
Sure, can you send a link to the .zip file containing those maps that you
need converted?
In Victoria, there is a meet-up group called Victoria geo-geeks, i can pass
it on and ask around if i cant figure it out :) There is also the osgeo
mailing lists who has a wide variety of experts.
Sweet! Thanks Stuart.
Now i can go back todo what i was doing :)
qgis is a powerfull program, and the support developers are that of
brilliant minds.
I still cant get qgis running on my computer, but i found that the
problem is with my computer, and not the program.
Hopefully you'll figure it
Hi all,
I have begun the process of converting the CanVec National and
Provincial GML files into shp file, and filtering down the shp file
into 1 shp file per canvec map feature (code).
I've already converted most of the features, and will be done
processing them in the next few weeks. I'll
Some would argue that including a 'space' and forward slash '/' and
French name, to be all on the same line.
(some datasets do this)
and others would argue that 'french rendermap' should show all french.
. so it's osm, it's not perfect ... so just check out another
federal facility that has
Hi all,
FYI, i'm making national map layers for all of the canvec map
features, as .shp files and loading them to koordinates.com
I'm converting the files to .osm as well as .img as a transparent map
overlay, as well as a .gpx file
and .gdb (garmin mapsource file) for those items of interest to
Hi,
The talk-ca mailing list is your source for all you need to know about
importing the canvec .osm files to the osm map :)
The googledocs chart is open access and no signin required.
I'm forwarding your message to the mailing list, as i am no longer
involved with uploading these .osm files
Has anyone been able to get a planet/north america extract of just
user:vreimer's edits?
i still havent figured out how.
thanks,
Sam
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On 2011-01-14, at 9:39 PM, Samuel Dyck wrote:
Hi
I've been looking at replacing much of vriemer's work
Hi,
Does anyone know how to extract a users edits from the API?
I'm specifically looking for all of the edits (last changed) by
user:reimer (mostly Canada) extracted to a sinle .osm file.
and user:Acrosscanadatrails as an .osm file.
Using windows XP on the command line.
Please share all of the
FYI,
I'm just forwarding these comments over to the Canadian talk-ca list,
as the national data is created in the exact same way.
And BTW, the fact that the canvec data is available in full
province/national sized shape files, as a layer for each feature
(should) be great news for some.
This is
?
(might show up on wikipedia, havent checked)
On 1/14/11, Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au wrote:
Folks
NearMap's flood run of Brisbane is partially online. e.g. in the CBD
through to Oxley Creek at least.
Sam Vekemans has expressed interest to me in helping trace the flood line.
All I
vreimer will take the trouble to consent
to the new terms. So we should probably gat all his stuff removed anyways.
Sam
Sam
On 11-01-14 09:50 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:
What would be great is to extract an .osm file containing only vreimer's
edits.
Is this possable?
It would be great to have
It's a monthly thing ...in OSM land
lol .. smooth :)
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
The wiki is confusing, though. It puts highway=residential,
highway=track, highway=service, and
/me is hoping that there will be multiple API instances globally so
then the planet load can be shared.
Ideally, designated country-specific APIs which require a unique login
will be setup and ready for april 1st..
This makes for merging the API's at a later date (when the dust
settles) MUCH
Hi,
So apparently mygeodata.eu is able to convert the .gml files of canvec
into .shp file.
then (of course) shp-to-osm.jar to convert it to osm, and josm to
convert it to .gpx
The only challenge is the map projection that i cant get right.
The .gml files are great, as it's a national and
Hi,
You might want to ask the talk-ca list... instead of tagging list :)
It's the default value for CanVec when the data is not available.
Every 6 months, the source data (as Natural Resources Canada made .osm
files) gets updated.
So more provinces will have housenumbers, in time :)
... the 1st
Hi all,
I'm just wondering how many users out their still need to update their
wiki.openstreetmap.org page wit their licence preference.
It would be good that those who want their edits to be in the public
domain be noticable, otherwise, its very difficult to figure out what
your intentions are
Yes, hopefully the OSM-Foundation will provide a full planet.osm file.
... However, to be on the safe side (there is no benifit for
osm-foundation to help), having a bunch (i'd say at least 10) copies
of the latest planet.osm scattered across many websites / offlines and
external hard drives
The data will be visable on koordinates.com in the next few weeks,
once the other datasets are all loaded to this central repository, we
will be able to easily see the various data and qualities available.
cheers,
sam
On 12/17/10, Blake Crosby m...@blakecrosby.com wrote:
On 17/12/2010 10:42
Hi,
The full Aboriginal Lands data file is both available on the wiki, and
the geobase website.
The .shp files will be loaded to koordinates.com for easy reference
(along with every other dataset i can find).
I have figured out a method to revert and remove all of my edits, but
this will take
I'm just cc'ing talk-ca.
and im not sure about the renderings/tagging of this.
... perhaps it's better if i remove everything that i added?
It'll be loaded onto koordinates.com (hopefully in the next few
weeks), i had troubles with the dataset the 1st time round, but solved
the problem, as
cool,
I'm just blogging this for later, the Oxoma Schema sounds interesting
to investigate further.
cheers,
sam
On 12/8/10, Michael von Glasow mich...@vonglasow.com wrote:
On 12/08/2010 08:44 PM, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote:
Hello
Yes, the Public Transport proposal is basically based on
Hi,
(sorry if im a broken record)
I know that Daniel and the NRCan-CanVec data team are desparatly
trying to figure out a way to be able to get the 'omissions' and
'remissions' data to help make the CanVec product better.
Perhaps the folks at Linz are already in Contact with NRCan? ... as we
(in
I'm not certain that OpenStreetMap supports that activity.
All available data needs to be added to OpemStreetMap, and cannot be
extracted for any external gis system, unless the complete external
gis system is previously imported into OpenStreeMap.
Checking with legal for the use.
I'm not certain that OpenStreetMap supports that activity.
All available data needs to be added to OpemStreetMap, and cannot be
extracted for any external gis system, unless the complete external
gis system is previously imported into OpenStreeMap.
Checking with legal for the use.
Thanks for sharing!
I know that Natural Resources Canada has been working hard to make the
Maps in the north uptodate.
I'll be making FreeGarmin Maps from the data, and i'll will get
uploaded Onto OpenStreetMap, GeoCommons, Koordinates, CommonMap, and
others, so it will be usable by manu many
... oh and talk-ca@ list, im forwarding this off, as it is of interest
to Canada nationally as using the data from various cities will
(now because of odbl) is VERY strict.
So the loby to the governments is to puch towards public domain for
tax-payer funded data, as this is for the 'common'
i also tweeted about it yesterday
Sam Vekemans
@acrosscanada Sam Vekemans
[CivicAccess-discuss] What's doing in Montreal? Re: Montréal Ouvert in
the Gazette #opengov #montreal #quebec #canada http://post.ly/1G8Lk
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Perhaps a way to help is to join in the existing
Cool!
I from looking at whats available, I grabbed a random spot / tile area
from the os vectormap
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/vectormap/district/docs/feature_code_list_v1-0.pdf
I'll be cross-referencing these map features with the other features
around the planet.
Does
...
and *we* can also edit wiktionary.org ... but lets not go their eithor ...
I already agreed to the 1st responce, and i'm creating a separate wiki
website for 'international map feature standards' .. which is a
combination of the many different maps that are around the world.
I'll only be
Hi,
I'm just wondering if it's ok to incert the wiktionary.org
definition(s) of the word(s) used for each map feature wiki page.
Or would it be better if i create my own independent wiki website for
it. since my plans are above and beyond the scope of osm.
As i detail the map features
o-kay,
Then i'll just include a pocket sized english to osm-ish dictionary :)
... so it'll be in a separate wiki website. Fair enough.
cheers,
sam
On 11/21/10, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote:
On 21/11/10 17:04, Sam Vekemans wrote:
I'm just wondering if it's ok to incert
Yup,
geocommons.com does this.
Just upload the data (in small pieces) to geocommons, and the
community can use the data as layers, searching for what i available.
I use openJUMP, an easy program to learn, to view shp files, and
extract a small area and separating it from feature attribute.
FYI,
I just noticed that 'Open Street Map' was quoted in the origional post.
Although this data cannot be used for OSM, it can... only if enough
people keep on reminding them that the City of Surrey, BC has made the
data public domain, and ask them why they cant do the same.
I dont yet have
Hi all,
a backgrounder..
The raw data is available from gtfs (i think) which holds the
'official' data on a central holding place.
The route relations that are currently in osm are a mix of both,
hand-drawn (manually attached to osm ways and nodes) and imported with
manual tweeking.
The
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:25 AM, David Wetzel d...@turbocat.de wrote:
Hi,
how can I import that data into OSM?
Screenshot of the lake data: http://666kb.com/i/bo6xehi8ofhep3l5f.gif
Lakes.zip from
http://www.regionaldistrict.com/departments/gis/gis_RDCO_datalists.aspx
Cool!
I went
were still waiting for OpenStreetMap to change it's licence :)
lol...
but anyway, geocommons.com is a good temporary home for the p files :)
and having the data on standby just waiting to use used is helpfull.
cheers,
sam
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Hi,
I'm looking to match about 700 features, so 2,000 should be enough to
account for the variable tagging.
I guess it could be run again, for 5,000 primary key/value pairs to
get a better sample of the planets feature tagging system.
cheers,
sam
On 10/24/10, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org
Hi,
Seeing as how Potlatch2 now has the super powers ability to load the
basic geometry (not attributes) of shp files, when providing the url
to the .shp .prj (and frieds)
I'm wondering if it is in the works to have a JOSM plugin where it can
automatically convert shp files (ie. run shp-to-osm.jar
Thanks Chris,
I'll choose your answer :-)
I know that last time i attempted to play with Merkarater it was still
a bit buggy, so im sure it's better now :)
Great work!
cheers,
sam
p.s BTW, it's on my list to see the map feature default presets, and
compare it with the other
Yup, thats what it looks like,
it states
http://www.mybikeroute.info/about+My+Bikeroute/default.aspx
• To be included in the underlying dataset for an online bike
trip-planning facility offered through the Transport Info 131500
website
http://www.131500.com.au/maps/cycling
And looking at the
Hi,
Does anyone have a list of all of the tags used for the Coraine Land
Cover dataset?
Thanks,
Sam
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Does anyone know if there are plans to ipliment the auto-conversion of
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Hi,
Yup, the inconsistency is consistent all across the planet :)
It's a consistent battle to be fixing up the wiki so that it gets to a
happy medium.
I'm currently working on cross-referencing the standard Garmin Map
Features with the OSM Wiki Map Features page, and pointing out the
:53:30AM -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote:
Are you getting a live feed from the wiki (for the tag descriptions)?
or do you manually copy it in to your database?
No manual work involved. That would be way too much work. I wrote a program
that finds and parses all relevant wiki pages and extracts
Hi,
In the wiki template box for the key's and values, can we include a
field for 'ShortDescription' and another field for 'LongDescription'?
This way, the end-user can clearly understand what the funcation of
the key/value is.
and perhaps have another field for 'WikipediaArticleURL' so then the
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wikia.com is an example of a wiki fork project. and it looks to be doing fine :)
I like it as it hosts my acrosscanadatrails.wikia.com website.
Its outside of wikipeda, and it's facebook integrated.
wikimapia is also a fork project, and it's doing great. It has a
function and surves a
hi,
On the cloudmade.com website, 2 phone numbers are listed. (US UK)
I would try calling during regular office hours in the time zone of
the closest office.
cheers,
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Hi,
Does anyone know if or when the OSMF would adopt a policy to use a
dedicated API that could be used as a dedicated data storage
warehouse. So then a copy of the latest available data (from the
source national/regional/local) government data, can be stored in it
it.
This way, the api data
Hi,
Also, because each tile is slowly being dropped in, it's easy to use
the filter tool for when selecting what data to import.
So a quick filter for 'natural=peak' would find them all, and add them in.
I don't see a rush for it either :)
November to start the next round? Cool.
So will this
fyi,
thats the way we are dealing with the CanVec data for Canada, not data
is blindly dropped in, it's simply carefully merged and added where
its needed. So the overall map is exactly what osm- ccbysa/odbl map
is looking for.
It's not that hard to convert any data into small sized .osm files
hi,
would you be able to share the python script?
I dont think it would be that hard to do, afterall, Dale (Ibycus) was
able to convert the data from shp files).
So i think it's a matter of just setting the script to convert and add
tags which would line up with mkgmap.
osm's equivelent would
actually, to think of it.
A simple rules.txt file can be made with using shp-to-osm.jar
I think it's just a matter of getting the tags right, and the custom
.typ file set.
so it shouldn't be that hard to get it done manually :)
cheers,
sam
On 9/29/10, Bégin, Daniel
Hi all,
I'm creating a list of all of the existing map features, and looking
for a nice example (node/way/area/relation) of every feature.
I could pick one myself, but i figured i'd ask for help.
I have a googledocs spreadsheet just about ready for it to be remotly added.
A good exable of
try using the Bing maps version of osm, i think it renders faster.
Its a handy way to check, i also use the Marble Desktop, as it renders
pritty fast also.
cheers,
sam
On 9/23/10, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote:
I was importing data in the Georgian Bay area and I noticed
.
Cheerio John
On 22 September 2010 17:44, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
hi all,
Just wondering if anyone has gone through the 'available' data from
the catelogue and matched up the features to it's coorisponding osm
tag, and made it in chart form.
Thanks,
Sam
hi,
Just checking,
has anyone gone through the geoscience map features and matched it up
with OSM tags?
I have the Google Docs chart and am just guessing at what each feature
should be represented on a mapnik map as.
I can invite anyone in as editors, just ask :)
Thanks,
Sam
On 9/21/10,
at 12:08 AM, Sam Vekemans
acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
Just checking,
has anyone gone through the geoscience map features and matched it up
with OSM tags?
I have the Google Docs chart and am just guessing at what each feature
should be represented on a mapnik map as.
I can invite
hi all,
Just wondering if anyone has gone through the 'available' data from
the catelogue and matched up the features to it's coorisponding osm
tag, and made it in chart form.
Thanks,
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From: Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:09 AM
Subject: imports working group
To: board Board bo...@osmfoundation.org
Hi,
Does OSM Foundation not have an 'Imports Working Group', where
FYI, for those in the Ottawa area.
You might not be on the osgeo mailing list, but there is interest in
OpenStreetMap, so it would be great to share ideas.
Ideally, a solution is to work towards converting source data into
xml/osm format, and making the data simply 'available', so then those
Of Sam Vekemans
Sent: Sunday, 12 September 2010 2:19 PM
To: aust...@lists.osgeo.org; OSM Australian Talk List
Subject: [talk-au] Geoscience Austrailia - international tagging standards
Hi all,
I am currently (just about done) going through the Geoscience
Austrailia pdf user guide, which lists
features page.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features
Regards,
Markus_g
-Original Message-
From: talk-au-boun...@openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-au-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Sam Vekemans
Sent: Sunday, 12 September 2010 2:19 PM
To: aust...@lists.osgeo.org
hi,
The Manitoba Data is a live dataset that is continiously being
updated, just like canvec, so it isn't a one-time import.
You might also want to message legal talk and the imports list about it.
Also, the imports page requests to make samples available for review.
(knowone really knows what
Hi,
For the Canada canvec dataset, the map feature is available, and
direction of the way was not taken into account. So the tag
'oneway=yes' was not used as a preset.
However, for those who are interested in making the waterflow correct
(and render an arrow). In Canada we do have geobase
hi,
the ArcGIS osm editor can handle layers, and from what i heard (wiki
page review) that is works well.
IMO generally, osm works as a flat sheet of paper, were people of all
skill levels can work on the map at the same time.
So having osm like a complex arcgis editor, makes it harder for
hi,
does anyone have a really old planet.osm file (from the 1st year of existance)?
I want to compare what the top tags that where used in the database,
compared to the current top tags used.
thanks,
sam
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cool,
thanks :)
now i can do an objective analysis of year over year comparison of the
tagging wars 5 episode popularity contest.
cheers,
sam
On 9/5/10, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Sam Vekemans
acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote:
hi,
does anyone
hi Peter,
It will be great to see your resaults, then i can compare them with
the current tagging system used by
CanVec/Tiger/linz/garmin/mapnik/cyclemap/josm/potlatch/mapzen/merkaartor
and others.
I found that many tags are 'primary tag dependent', meaning that using
the tag alone on a
over-complicating :)
the 'wooded area' doesnt actually mean that much other than
stating 'Hey, there is trees over there'
Once the national/regional/local parks are listed, along with the
admin boundaries (something better than stats can) and the property
boundaries get listed.
... and
I'll take 2 please, with a side order of MapSource installer togo :)
cheers,
sam
ps. The manitoba trails association has a student who is currently
'inventoring' the recreational trail going through the province
so perhaps more trail data is available from the province (than what
exists
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