Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping 'proposed' or 'planned' or 'construction' trails/roads/buildings

2010-04-15 Thread Gregory
Well here is an example in the UK: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=54.76883&lon=-1.59148&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF It's an old/disused university college that is now a housing construction site. I've been up to the fence where they started to build the roads in (you can see the kerbs). If you see t

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping 'proposed' or 'planned' or 'construction' trails/roads/buildings

2010-04-15 Thread Sam Vekemans
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Gregory wrote: > People try to get this sort of information from textual descriptions (and > local knowledge). Then of course it will probably need correcting once it is > open/accessible. > You can try and work it out from standing at a construction fence and > lo

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping 'proposed' or 'planned' or 'construction' trails/roads/buildings

2010-04-15 Thread Gregory
People try to get this sort of information from textual descriptions (and local knowledge). Then of course it will probably need correcting once it is open/accessible. You can try and work it out from standing at a construction fence and looking at which direction the road takes. You can also try c

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] LINZ import

2010-04-15 Thread Sam Vekemans
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:25 PM, John Smith wrote: > On 16 April 2010 09:18, Sam Vekemans wrote: > > Create a WMS layer for the complete dataset & trace from it. > > The problem with WMS layers is you loose the meta information that > already exists, or you need to do a lot of work to add it afte

Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-15 Thread Sam Vekemans
Just curious, is it technially possable to create a WMS layer, where the address range data & road names are phycally shown? If this layer can be set to transparent, then it could be used ontop of the Toporama WMS layer (so then we can manually copy in the details to the actual road & extrapolate

[Talk-ca] GeoBase Aboriginal lands provincial OSM zip files now available

2010-04-15 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi All, I have now converted 1/2 the country's Aboriginal lands boundary polygons. Im now just running the Northwest_Territories file, im keeping the fileset at less than 10 .osm files, as these seems the easiest to work with. (Having more than 10 .osm files for the region makes is more difficult

Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-15 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Tyler, Yes, the less than great spatial accuracy of the StatsCan RNF are well known (and they are the first to admit this). StatsCan is intending to move over to the NRN when they can (i.e., once enough provinces have released address ranged data). The current RNF has been rubber sheeted to mat

Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-15 Thread tyler
> This is perhaps the only area of OSM, that i dont stick my fingers > in. :-) > Will be great if you can solve the puzzle. > As it would be great to be adding in that detail. > I can see why we don't tend to bulk import the statscan data; the streets they have defined in the areas I'm look