[Talk-ca] Fwd: City of Vancouver Looking for Open Data Feedback

Just an FYI, IMO, getting 'direct concent' in the form of 'written permission' should be fine. As well as the XML format (i think is the same as OSM) Fortunatly, the licence is good enough that i can make my own 'do not sell' Garmin map. Perhaps this is one thing that we can go over at the OSGeo-

Re: [Talk-ca] 001k - coastline

Hi all, When you say 'ocean water polygons', I guess you are talking about modifying natural=coastline ways (PGS or others) that define oceans among other things using/for Canvec data? I usually prefer to keep the original data and make it fits on the (assumed better) reference data. Furthermore

[Talk-ca] Duplicate overlapping roads...

Sam always says I should let people know what I'm up to. Today I'm actually going to listen... ;-) I'm working in three areas currently, outward in circles around: Orangeville (040P), Pickering (030M), and Rock Point PP (030L). (and trying to pull in Lake Ontario shore line) I'm creating

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

Cool, Thanks for the summery, i saw this on my news feed. Its great to be noticed. Will be interesting to see what the editor is like. Cheers, Sam On 7/9/10, David Ellams wrote: > > http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/ > > > Excerpts: > > Map