Re: [Talk-ca] FW: Canvec Product - osm format

2010-03-12 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool, As of right now, the wiki is the most current source for the tagging details. The GoogleDocs chart is not far behind. :-) Because this is a NRCan vanvec product (directly from the source) any changes to the tagging structure needs to be directly with the talk-ca@ AND NRCan directly, so then

Re: [Talk-ca] Russia

2010-03-12 Thread Richard Weait
I've also sent this note to the editor of the two ways in question. Dear Aleksandr, A couple of your edits drew some attention on the talk-ca mailing list[1], Please feel free to join us there. It appears that other countries with boundary relations are using a boundary based on a fixed distanc

Re: [Talk-ca] Russia

2010-03-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Sam Dyck wrote: > Hi > > I know this is the wrong place to ask but, why does Russia's borders go to > the edge of the map while no other country at extreme latitudes is done the > same way? These two boundaries mention a source but provide no link. I presume thes

[Talk-ca] Russia

2010-03-12 Thread Sam Dyck
Hi I know this is the wrong place to ask but, why does Russia's borders go to the edge of the map while no other country at extreme latitudes is done the same way? Sam ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/lis

[Talk-ca] FW: Canvec Product - osm format

2010-03-12 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Hi all, The proposed tagging for each Canvec theme is open for discussion... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec:_Buildings_and_structures_(BS) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec:_Energy_(EN) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec:_Relief_and_landforms_(FO) http://wiki.openstree

Re: [Talk-ca] PR stuff Ottawa Opendata Sat 24th April

2010-03-12 Thread john whelan
Not quite they have some sort of wiki set up here which I picked up on a few minutes ago. Go and add your ideas in here, some people are actually asking for things that we can do. http://opendataottawa.pbworks.com/Open-Data-Ottawa-App-Ideas Cheerio John On 12 March 2010 14:01, Stefan Monnier w

Re: [Talk-ca] PR stuff Ottawa Opendata Sat 24th April

2010-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> http://opendataottawa.ca/  It's at City Hall and it looks like the press >> will be present. >> It's local so I could pop down.  However having just me without a laptop, or >> banner probably wouldn't do much good.  Any suggestions?  and no I don't >> have access to a colour printer to print a b

[Talk-ca] Vancouver adds shoreline and building footprints to Open Data Catalogue

2010-03-12 Thread Pete Lypkie
First, something I just saw today: http://data.vancouver.ca/index.htm#v5 "The City has just added three new layers to the Open Data catalogue in response to requests. They are Shorelines, Building Footprints, and Web Cams. The shoreline data is from 2002 while the building footprints are from 199