Dear talk-ca,
There is a new secret demo of routing on OSM data for Canada. The
demo server could go away without notice, and it doesn't update data
regularly, but it seems to be blindingly fast. Also, it only works
for part of Europe.
Except it secretly works for part of Canada too!
So far,
Hi Richard,
Yeah, that's sounds quite useful. How do we do it?
Sam L.
Kamloops
-Original Message-
From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com
To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:54:06 -0500
Dear talk-ca,
Hi Everybody,
I've been importing CanVec mostly south of Kamloops for the past several
weeks and am going to take some time now to go back and bring stuff up
to date. One question I have though is in regards to how to treat cut
blocks in the wooded areas.
I see according to the map features
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
Dear talk-ca,
There is a new secret demo of routing on OSM data for Canada. The
demo server could go away without notice, and it doesn't update data
regularly, but it seems to be blindingly fast. Also, it only works
for
Hi Samuel,
About tagging forested areas, I would use landuse=forest only if it is
obvious on the field that the area is managed/harvested, as for
landuse=orchard or landuse=vineyard. We have a lot of Christmas tree
plantations in the area and I map them as landuse=forest because it is
obvious
Thanks Richard. I tested it on the Trans Canada heading east of
Kamloops towards Banff. It was routing through Edmonton. Wha???
Tracked it down to a divided section of the TC west of Field where both
sides of the highway were marked as westbound. KeepRight didn't pick it
up in this case.
Well, that was my feeling as well. Maps are living things and designed
to be changed. OK... if the blocks look like they have greened up after
replanting or otherwise, I will leave the cut blocks as wooded,
otherwise they will be mapped as a hole.
Thanks...
Sam L
-Original Message-
RE: cut-blocks
As someone who has spent done time as a forest technician, I strongly advise
against mapping forestry activity. Cut block spatial data changes daily and
any images used to trace are out of date. There are literally tens of
thousands of clear cuts in British Columbia alone and
I very much see your point which is why I was asking for some direction.
I guess it comes down to whether the map should reflect what we see at
some given snapshot in time, or whether it is reflecting the overall
landuse scheme. In short, while standing in the middle of a clear-cut,
would it be
I would tag it as natural=wood as I don’t feel that there is any distinction
between a 2-year old stand and a 250 year old stand in terms of being wood, or
forest. They are merely different ages. Licensees maintain incredibly
accurate and up-to-date maps that indicate the different openings
British Columbia: the highway 97/97C interchange (between kelowna and
peachland) had a routing error, but was corrected two days after the
data was pulled (by someone I don't know).
When you said fast, you weren't kidding! This'll be great to get on
the main page (when it works in conjunction
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