[Talk-ca] Provincial Borders

2009-04-09 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, in some spots (vancouver island) i see that the line actually cuts through small edges of land. Odds are that International waters starts at a certain distance off-shore. I will be importing coastal islands and nav-aids such as lighthouses and buoys. I think its best to notify geobase as

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Addr:streetnumber:first;last:left;right

2009-04-09 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/4/7 marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com: On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 00:11:24 +0200, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: Sound cool! One suggestion: As this is automated anyway, try to add hints about what street the houses belong to. easy to implement version:  Simply add a tag

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Addr:streetnumber:first;last:left;right

2009-04-09 Thread Marcus Wolschon
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Florian Lohoff f...@rfc822.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:28:16AM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: All the world is not Germany  (echoing All the world's not a VAX, but I date myself).  Here in the USA, many areas were renumbered for the e911 initiative.  The

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Addr:streetnumber:first;last:left;right

2009-04-09 Thread Marcus Wolschon
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:25 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: createInterpolationWay(way w, int offset) { Node startInterpNode = new Node(w.getNode(0).location +   offset * w.getNode(0).getNextSegment().vectorNormalLeft()); foreach (Node n in w.nodes except 0 and last) {  

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Addr:streetnumber:first;last:left;right

2009-04-09 Thread marcus.wolschon
On 7 Apr 2009 21:08:48 -0400, Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com wrote: On Apr 7, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Marcus Wolschon wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Florian Lohoff f...@rfc822.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:28:16AM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: Thus, for many roads near me,

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Addr:streetnumber:first;last:left;right

2009-04-09 Thread Marcus Wolschon
andrzej zaborowski schrieb: Or you can use the type=associatedstreet-relation. That one works without street-names and is just 2 relation with 1 tag and 2 members. Should be simple to code. Yes, I may do that, however... Afterall this information doesn't seem all that useful - when you want

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Addr:streetnumber:first;last:left;right

2009-04-09 Thread Russ Nelson
On Apr 8, 2009, at 2:48 AM, marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote: If it is a very long road and only start+end are given and not all houses have roughly the same size then that means that multiple house-numbers end up inside a very large house, or between houses or even on crossing roads.

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Addr:streetnumber:first;last:left;right

2009-04-09 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/4/7 marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com: On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:08:15 -0400 (EDT), Steve Singer ssinger...@sympatico.ca wrote: If the interpolation ways model the geometry of the original way just offset by some factor then the interpolation ways wouldn't cross the street segment.  If your

Re: [Talk-ca] Provincial Borders

2009-04-09 Thread Steve Singer
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Sam Vekemans wrote: Hi, in some spots (vancouver island) i see that the line actually cuts through small edges of land. Is the border wrong, or is the polygon in that draws the land/island wrong? But openstreetbugs.org is probably a good way of kicking track of these

[Talk-ca] Merging osm + geobase status

2009-04-09 Thread William Lachance
Hey all, I haven't had as much time to work on this as I thought I would, but I thought I'd give a quick update on the status of this project anyway, since I have made some progress in the few hours I've spent on it. I figured that the initial step to do a comparison between the OSM and geobase

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging osm + geobase status

2009-04-09 Thread Jean-Sébastien Moreau
It seems to be a very good start! I will try to test it as soon as possible. Feel free to modify and update the algorithm part I've created in the geobase import wiki page so that everyone can understand the logic of your script.

Re: [Talk-ca] Provincial Borders

2009-04-09 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Its not that the polygon for the land island is wrong, its just that the GeoBase NHN -HD_ISLAND_2.osm as well as the canvec VE_1240009_2 wooded area shows more detail. I have it listed as bug67 on the wiki.

Re: [Talk-ca] Provincial Borders

2009-04-09 Thread Sam Vekemans
Just made the Screen-shot http://www.acrosscanadatrails.com/ (its the Big image on the main page) I don't like overloading wiki.openstreetmap with so may images. :) Cheers, Sam On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Its not that the polygon for