Re: [Talk-ca] [AtlanticCanada] Introduction

2011-02-02 Thread Sam Vekemans
... but their is a conflict, as OpenStreetMap is not as 'free' as some people in the OSGeo community has indicated. (from my presentation to the osgeo-bc chapter last summer). But I agree, I can take a more professional approach, and write a Paper about this. It will be interesting to hear the

Re: [Talk-ca] Digitizing over an aerial photo

2011-02-02 Thread Kevin Michael Smith
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:13 -0500, Yves Moisan wrote: Hi All, I have a trivia for you license-interested/competent folks. Say I have a recent aerial photo coverage of a really nice town that I'd like to use to digitize features, is there an issue if the photo is private (city-owned) ?

Re: [Talk-ca] [AtlanticCanada] Introduction

2011-02-02 Thread Teresa Baldwin
OSGeo and OpenStreetMap are not affliated with each other, it is as simple as that. OSGeo has a Public Geospatial Data Committee [1] that generally sits dormant, but it exists. That might be the place to start if you wanted to work on collaboration. At this point, they are very different

Re: [Talk-ca] [AtlanticCanada] Introduction

2011-02-02 Thread Gregory
Sam, you start with discussing the types of people in the communities (professional or hobby GIS interests) and then you bring licenses into it. Yes you can probably draw differences, but I know there are plenty of OpenStreetMap people who are GIS professionals, people who frequently wear shirts

Re: [Talk-ca] [AtlanticCanada] Introduction

2011-02-02 Thread Sam Vekemans
oops, Point taken, understood. I'll get back to my work now. Feel free to remind me about this blunder if i do it again. Regards, Sam On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: Sam, you start with discussing the types of people in the communities

[Talk-ca] User: Acrosscanadatrails wiki.openstreetmap house cleaning effort

2011-02-02 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi all, (talk-ca list). With thanks to Frederik Grant, who have kindly flagged all of my wiki contribution pages for deletion, i have now fully backed-up all of these pages. For some of the pages, they were accidentally flagged, which should be kept. I put a note on each of these pages, as some

Re: [Talk-ca] User: Acrosscanadatrails wiki.openstreetmap housecleaning effort

2011-02-02 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Bonjour Grant and Frederik, I understand that you are helping Sam in an osm-wiki housecleaning effort? It seems that some of the pages you marked for deletion were actually created/edited by me to support the community with the content of the Canvec product...

Re: [Talk-ca] User: Acrosscanadatrails wiki.openstreetmap house cleaning effort

2011-02-02 Thread Grant Slater
On 2 February 2011 21:02, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, (talk-ca list). With thanks to Frederik Grant, who have kindly flagged all of my wiki contribution pages for deletion, i have now fully backed-up all of these pages. You have left off a pertinent fact... you

Re: [Talk-ca] User: Acrosscanadatrails wiki.openstreetmap house cleaning effort

2011-02-02 Thread Sam Vekemans
hi, On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: On 2 February 2011 21:02, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, (talk-ca list). With thanks to Frederik Grant, who have kindly flagged all of my wiki contribution pages for deletion,

Re: [Talk-ca] User: Acrosscanadatrails wiki.openstreetmap housecleaning effort

2011-02-02 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 11-02-02 17:15 , Grant Slater wrote: I've removed the delete tag from these pages. Any more we want to keep? Land Information Ontario needs to stay. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] User: Acrosscanadatrails wiki.openstreetmap housecleaning effort

2011-02-02 Thread Sam Vekemans
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: On 2 February 2011 21:42, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec The following pages should not have been marked for deletion and I'd like to see them