[Talk-ca] Flooding in Richelieu River, Quebec, Canada : Follow-up

2011-05-24 Thread Pierre Béland
On may 23, strong winds up to 80 km/h pushed rapidly Lake Champlain water in Richelieu river. For the second time in a month, a high level record have been registered in Lake Champlain and Richelieu river basin. My city and a total of 18 cities are principally affected. No severe injuries are

[Talk-ca] Flooding in Richelieu River, Quebec, Canada : Follow-up (Complement of information)

2011-05-24 Thread Pierre Béland
Following are the ways and relation I have produced to document Richelieu River flooding. Affected zones (These will be revised when I obtain more detailed information on streets / areas affected. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/114705927

Re: [Talk-ca] [HOT] Flooding in Richelieu River, Quebec, Canada : Follow-up

2011-05-24 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Hi Pierre, Any idea of sources for street names ? With MapOSMatic, you can produce indexed maps of streets of arbitrary rectangular areas (provided they are not too large). For example, for Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu :

Re: [Talk-ca] [HOT] Flooding in Richelieu River, Quebec, Canada : Follow-up

2011-05-24 Thread Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Partially answering my own question : A city map of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, from the city itself, is available online here : http://www.ville.saint-jean-sur-richelieu.qc.ca/web/doc/Carteroutiere-2007824103123.pdf It includes missing street names from the affected area. I assume this is public

[Talk-ca] Geobase vs Canvec

2011-05-24 Thread Nakor Osm
Bonjour, I was looking at Canvec data vs Geobase data around Pointe-à-la-Croix, QC and Campbellton, NB. Geobase is already there but is missing street names. Canvec has street names but all ways are marked surface=unpaved and lanes=-1 which I guess is false. There are also some inconsistency in

Re: [Talk-ca] [HOT] Flooding in Richelieu River, Quebec, Canada : Follow-up

2011-05-24 Thread Steve Singer
On Wed, 25 May 2011, Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: Hi Pierre, Any idea of sources for street names ? The Canvec datafiles can be opened up in JOSM and can legally used as a source for streetnames in Quebec. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canvec

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase vs Canvec

2011-05-24 Thread James Ewen
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Nakor Osm nakor@gmail.com wrote: I was looking at Canvec data vs Geobase data around Pointe-à-la-Croix, QC and Campbellton, NB. Geobase is already there but is missing street names. Canvec has street names but all ways are marked surface=unpaved and