Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Importing Government Data

2008-12-19 Thread Russ Nelson
Sam Vekemans writes: What this did was sparked some major issues that need to be addressed. I think this is more important, than going deeper on that rant. I'm new to the innards of OSM, so I may be saying something stupid or obvious. Just step on me if I am. OSM already contains two kinds

Re: [Talk-ca] Tiger data as a slippy map option

2008-12-19 Thread Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 03:15 -0800, Sam Vekemans wrote: Where one option is to use an OpenLayers slippy map, where users could use a rendered version of all the Tiger data, and trace with it, just as they would with the Yahoo imagery layer? I'd really rather just import the data rather than be

[Talk-ca] Using GeoBase images for openlayers for OpenStreetMap and OpenAerialMap

2008-12-19 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, OpenAerialMap started as a project about a year ago, when I was working with some aerial data provided by a number of sources. Instead of putting together all of the different sources, I was interested in combining them into one world-coverage basemap, to act as an open replacement for the