[Talk-ca] Land Information Ontario - Update

Hi Richard, cc: talk-ca In case your interested (or maybe already started, created rules.txt, created .osm files sample areas) :-) I made up the page and wrote about whats going on. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Land_Information_Ontario Any help in wikifying and translating it into english

[Talk-ca] Canvec Import Party Sherbrooke

Hi all, Hereby I would like to announce the Canvec Import Party, which will be held in Sherbrooke, Québec, on December 5th. It has been referred to as the couch mapping party, but at the intended location there are no couches available ;) The location is a computer lab at the University of

Re: [Talk-ca] Help for Canvec to OSM for part of NB

Hi John, Thanks for looking at the scripts. Please see below. John Smart wrote: Hello I would like to take a shot at updating the OSM for some of New Brunswick, which presently does not have very much mapping compiled. The plan I think I'd like to follow is: 1. Select an NTS 1:50 000

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec Import Party Sherbrooke

Hi, Yup, i'll be there via Skype 'samvekemans'. I'll be able to provide background details and help out where needed. Thanks for setting it up. Cheers, Sam On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.orgwrote: Hi all, Hereby I would like to announce the Canvec Import

Re: [Talk-ca] Help for Canvec to OSM for part of NB

Hi John, What tile area ares you interested in? New Brunswick is in the 021 022 area http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/browse.do?produit=cdeddecoupage=50kmap=021 You can see a chart of what the GeoBase NRN status is like for New Brunswick http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nrn/status.html I

Re: [Talk-ca] Modifying GeoBase Ways.

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, James Ewen wrote: We as the OSM community have chosen to accept the restrictions in order to be able to import HUGE amounts of data, but it leaves us with a quandary... how much modification of the imported data needs to happen BEFORE the attribution can be REMOVED? When

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Modifying GeoBase Ways.

Hi Steve, The reason i didnt include attribution as part of the changeset is because I didnt know how. :) i chose to put the 'attribution' tag on each point, line, area map feature, so that way, anyone editing will immediatly see where it came from. I believe that that is the point of

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Modifying GeoBase Ways.

Ok maybe think of it this way... In the OSM community, our 'attribution' is simple: check who is listed as the author, then you know who to complain too if you see problems. For attribution of a 'data supplier', just contacting the person who 'copied-in*' the data, doesnt help. Our solution is