Re: [Talk-ca] Updating Langley and use of alt_name?

Hi Paul, I was following your message until this statement, where I got confused. Are you saying the city of Langley is not a city? What do you mean by in British English? That's all fairly simple, but the place node is more complicated. Langley is not a city in British English, but a town.

[Talk-ca] aerial imagery from Flicker user - approves of use in OSM

I came across some aerial photos on Flicker that could be used for adding features to OSM. The photos are much newer than the existing Bing imagery and seem to include lots of new development in Ottawa. The photos are tagged on Flicker with a copyright by the owner only. I have contacted him via

Re: [Talk-ca] This Canada changeset looks a bit odd ...

you mean how the street address interpolation was moved onto the way itself? yes i find it odd, i think it is an error. Someone here will know what to do. Sincerely, Bill 519-580-6558 On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:22 PM, the Old Topo Depot oldto...@novacell.comwrote:

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec misalignment? Ottawa end of Portage Bridge

There is no gospel, although surveys and GPS traces may be close, but certainly not Bing and CanVec imports. The map should represent what you see on the ground, so make whatever adjustments are needed, using deduction from your primary source (a survey), that aligns with traces (absolute

Re: [Talk-ca] Bing Map of Guelph, Ontario is poor

For those not familiar with the Guelph aerial images, it seems they were much better before the recent Bing imagery update. Now with the new imagery, the entire city area is covered in snow and ice so it is very hard to see any details. Maybe the previous imagery was old, but at least you could

[Talk-ca] Region of Waterloo Open Data

Has anyone determined if this data http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regionalGovernment/OpenDataHome.asp is OSM compatible? Licence is here http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regionalGovernment/OpenDataLicence.asp ___ Talk-ca mailing list

[Talk-ca] nominatum search seems to add postal code info, but from where?

Hello, If I do an arbitrary search for xxx, kitchener, ontario the results always include a guessed? postal code. Where is the postal code information coming from? Bill ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] (no subject)

Confusion Corner reminded me of The Basketweave on the 401 in Toronto. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.71829lon=-79.50048zoom=17layers=M Here a mapper has tagged the node as an attraction. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Sam Dyck samueld...@gmail.com wrote: Actually both of the highway

[Talk-ca] google street view is live in canada

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/windsor/story/2009/10/07/tech-internet-google-street-view-toronto.html ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca