Hi all,
I took a look at the 031G05 area, and (thankfully) the file that SteveS put
up there is still available, so i made a copy of it and stored it on the
mediafire.com site.
So i had a look, and ya, it's just like Vancouver, where because of the
buildings, and yahoo imagery which might be a bit
Hi John,
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:19 PM, john whelan wrote:
> My objective at the moment is to get something sane that can be used
> by various groups in the city with GPS devices to tag trees, heritage
> buildings etc.
So, if I'm understanding what you say above and in previous e-mails, you
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Gerald A wrote:
> I think Sam was hinting at "wholesale deletion and replacement", rather then
> "editing permission".
That's the problem, hinting at an idea is not an accurate statement.
Sam (and others) have made a number of generic statements, when they
are ta
Let's recap, I've seen no substantiation for the
statement that thousands of hours of work will be lost. I've seen
nothing from any one else who has done any GPS traces in Ottawa. I've
seen two different places where the existing OSM map is 100 meters out
from a GPS measurement.
Basically th
John Whelan wrote:
> Basically the map in Ottawa is unreliable but we don't know where.
> There seems to be no way of knowing whether a road has been mapped by
> GPS trace or sketched in by hand.
If I understand the process correctly, to do an import from Geobase you
would need to use a script
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Adam Glauser wrote:
> John Whelan wrote:
> > Basically the map in Ottawa is unreliable but we don't know where.
> > There seems to be no way of knowing whether a road has been mapped by
> > GPS trace or sketched in by hand.
>
> If I understand the proce
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:36 AM, John Whelan wrote:
> Let's recap, I've seen no substantiation for the statement that thousands of
> hours of work will be lost.
We've seen no substantiation that all of Ottawa is a bunch of garbage.
I'm not sure how you can believe that all of the work done so f
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:36 PM, John Whelan wrote:
> Basically the map in Ottawa is unreliable but we don't know where. There
> seems to be no way of knowing whether a road has been mapped by GPS trace or
> sketched in by hand.
>
Any map can be unreliable, and often providers of such maps don
A quick look at the number of mappers that have contributed to Ottawa there
are a lot of individuals and that excludes the GeoBase import. At least
some do not live in the Ottawa area, but that also does not preclude their
visiting and adding to the map, and I am not sure the tools that they used
My initial mail seems to have been truncated and hopefully this will be
better
A quick look at the number of mappers that have contributed to the map of
Ottawa shows that there are a lot of individuals and that excludes the
rather minor contribution from the GeoBase import. At least some of the
p
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:19 PM, john whelan wrote:
> My objective at the moment is to get something sane that can be used
> by various groups in the city with GPS devices to tag trees, heritage
> buildings etc.
Super. You have groups of interested people, motivated and equipped?
Then your mappi
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Richard Degelder wrote:
> A quick look at the number of mappers that have contributed to the map of
> Ottawa shows that there are a lot of individuals and that excludes the
> rather minor contribution from the GeoBase import.
> The source of this data can be foun
Thank you some meaningful numbers on mappers at
least which was not immediately apparent. So it looks as if we'll
just have to wait until the mess gets straighten out.
I found two on OSM, one wasn't active and the other, Marc Sensei,
didn't respond. My premise of just dropping in
the Geobas
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:32 PM, John Whelan wrote:
> So it looks as if we'll just have to wait until the
> mess gets straighten out.
Do you have any idea what happens if we ALL take that attitude? There
is no "them" in OSM, it's an "us" type community.
> I found two on OSM, one wasn't active a
When you use people whose first interest isn't mapping in large
numbers you need to keep it simple. I've used little old ladies in
electric wheel chairs before now to take photographs of specific
locations on the other side of the Atlantic. Worked fine but they do
get confused easily so if someth
> Wholesale deletion of the work of many volunteers without their
> consent seems even less likely to generate a positive outcome. I
> would consider that wholesale deletion to be vandalism.
I strongly agree. Manually edited data should never be removed and
replaced automatically with a data impo
In my hometown of Chilliwack, there's a new overpass/section of road opening
tomorrow. It's been open to pedestrians for the past week, so I've already
collected gps tracks of it, and added as "construction". Tonight I went to
remove the construction tag, and see that vreimer messed up the geometry
Thanks Adam,
As we disussed on chat. I'll contact that user. (no need for others too)
Cheers,
Sam
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