Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Andrew MacKinnon > wrote: >> >> The TTC data is pretty much useless to us because it is in a weird >> non-documented format. Would the TTC be willing to allow us to copy >> directly from its website, which in

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] shp-to-osm 0.7

Cool thanks :) Great Job! Sam On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > I just uploaded shp-to-osm 0.7, a Java tool to convert shapefiles to OSM > format. > > This version adds two important features: > - "glomming": the ability to connect ways based on a key/value pair > - tags for mu

Re: [Talk-ca] 021e area - sherbrook

Cool i saw that, thanks :) Cheers, Sam On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Frank Steggink wrote: > Hi Sam, > > Please see the e-mail I just sent you. Re. the 021E sheet, that will be > taken care of within the next few weeks. :) > > Frank > > Sam Vekemans wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> I have the 021e ar

Re: [Talk-ca] 021e area - sherbrook

Hi Sam, Please see the e-mail I just sent you. Re. the 021E sheet, that will be taken care of within the next few weeks. :) Frank Sam Vekemans wrote: > Hi Daniel, > I have the 021e area. it wasnt until after i converted it that i saw > that the roads wern't yet converted. But im sure they wil

[Talk-ca] 021e area - sherbrook

Hi Daniel, I have the 021e area. it wasnt until after i converted it that i saw that the roads wern't yet converted. But im sure they will be :) http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=3b30da6df5072902ab1eab3e9fa335ca95c66efc5bd7c210 This one now included the rivers names, as well as a french version

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

The City of Toronto aerial imagery WMS server URL (for JOSM) is at (remember the last &): http://map.toronto.ca/servlet/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/OrthoImagery?REQUEST=GetMap&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&LAYERS=Ortho Imagery 50cm 2005&STYLES=&FORMAT=image/png&BGCOLOR=0xFF&TRANSPARENT=TRUE&SRS=EPSG:432

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

I just saw on the IRC http://www.opengeodata.org/2009/11/04/open-data-from-toronto/ Looks like we have Mark Kuznicki to thank for that. Awesome! Cheers, Sam On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: >

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: > > The TTC data is pretty much useless to us because it is in a weird > non-documented format. Would the TTC be willing to allow us to copy > directly from its website, which includes route data in a much more > user-friendly format? > > And

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: > The TTC data is pretty much useless to us because it is in a weird > non-documented format. Would the TTC be willing to allow us to copy > directly from its website, which includes route data in a much more > user-friendly format? Others

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > Take another look.  Parts of the road centreline data are at least > years out of date.  And the centerline data freely mixes roads with > geographic boundaries with rivers, some sharing "junctions".  That'll > be a mess to convert properly.

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Sam Vekemans > wrote: > > hi All, > > It looks like the City of Toronto just joined in the cool-club :-) > > > > Thanks to user:Aude who looks to be a wikipedian... maybe could fix my > > ramblings? :-)... l

[Talk-ca] Waterloo Ontario OSM meetup

Waterloo Ontario OSM Meetup on Wednesday 11 November 2009. New and experienced OSM contributors welcome. http://www.meetup.com/Waterloo-OSM/ ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Sam Vekemans > wrote: >> hi All, >> It looks like the City of Toronto just joined in the cool-club :-) >> >> Thanks to user:Aude who looks to be a wikipedian... maybe could fix my >> ramblings? :-)... lol ..

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote: > hi All, > It looks like the City of Toronto just joined in the cool-club :-) > > Thanks to user:Aude who looks to be a wikipedian... maybe could fix my > ramblings? :-)... lol ... maybe not.. >  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Aude Gre

[Talk-ca] 030m area - toronto

Hi there, I converted the Toronto area, in light of the yesterdays announcement re: City of Toronto data being available. It can be found in the folder here http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=3b30da6df5072902ab1eab3e9fa335ca3df72188dbcf8784 Cheers, Sam Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://Across

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] NY Bicycle Routes

For whatever it's worth, I've been tagging the statewide cycle routes in Pennsylvania as RCN. I originally was tagging them as NCN, but there are actually 2 "interstate" cycle routes in the US, so I switched to RCN. I always took Andy's remark that LCN could mean "London cycle network" to mean

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] NY Bicycle Routes

[i'm new to the tagging discussion, just joined, please bear with me] On 11/1/09 7:13 PM, Adam Glauser wrote: > Sam's message has me somewhat confused as to who said what. In terms > of cycling tagging in North America, where the legal framework is > fairly similar* most places, my approach has

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] NY Bicycle Routes

On 10/30/09 6:59 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Hi, > how are you tagging state-wide cycle routes? > > I know we have > lcn= for local cycle routes (named& not named) > rcn=for regional cycle routes (ie metro area) > > then there's > ncn=for nation wide > but there's no > scn (state cycle network) or p

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] NY Bicycle Routes

My impression is that the point of having different levels of cycle routes (local, regional, national) is to avoid problems with names conflicting. That would suggest that Adam's interpretation is the way to go -- after all, there's not too much risk that two different cycle routes within the same

[Talk-ca] 083H area (Edmonton) v0.9.5.6 available

Hi James, I converted the 083H area, as i figured you might be able check the data. ... its available if ya like. http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=3b30da6df5072902ab1eab3e9fa335ca700961820b4837a2 Is there other areas you'd like to see converted? Cheers, Sam Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http:

Re: [Talk-ca] GeobaseNHN-to-osm.bat

Hi, re: geobaseNHN &canvec yup, thats where the 'maxnodes=2000' works, its set that it will break up the file into 20 or lessISH (depending on file size) 'segments' then you just upload them 1 at a time. . If im using the GeobaseNHN version, i would just 'follow the water'. I started that in N