Re: [Talk-ca] Many tag proposals

2009-03-27 Thread Jonathan Stewart
Sam, Can you provide the link to the main wiki pages you are talking about? The recent changes list is large, and has a lot of changes that are not related to what you are talking about. Thanks, Jonathan On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap in The Times - atlas of the world book

2009-03-27 Thread Jonathan Stewart
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:05 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: This makes me excited because by the end of this year, all of Canada will be complete! I think you're jumping the gun just a little. Probably

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging OSM + Geobase

2009-03-27 Thread William Lachance
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:56 -0400, Michel Gilbert wrote: It is nice to application using OSM data. Regarding your approach, one of the problems I see to use street name to match both data sets is that GeoBase and OSM do not have the same data model. For example, an OSM way does not break at

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging OSM + Geobase

2009-03-27 Thread William Lachance
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 19:15 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: Yup, everyone handled that question so i dont need too. .. However, i would recommend posting a summery onto the wiki as a FAQ... as this question comes up alot. And we do have a definitive answer. I'm not so sure that we do. :) I did

[Talk-ca] Fwd: Merging OSM + Geobase

2009-03-27 Thread James Ewen
AUGG On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:51 AM, William Lachance wrl...@gmail.com wrote: Yup, I should have noted this-- it probably makes sense in many cases for this script to merge some of the GeoBase segments together into single OSM ways, as there doesn't seem to be any reason for them to

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging OSM + Geobase

2009-03-27 Thread James Ewen
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:10 AM, William Lachance wrl...@gmail.com wrote: I see the argument of not wanting to blow away people's hard work, but from my (admittedly NS-centric view), that approach will lead to severe limitations in terms of the quality and consistency of the results. If you

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging OSM + Geobase

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Singer
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, William Lachance wrote: I'm not so sure that we do. :) I did try to read the archives before posting here, and couldn't find any approach which really corresponded with my own. I could be missing something important, but I also don't really see the harm in giving the