Re: [Talk-ca] Talk at Victoria GeoGeeks on Nov 3rd

2011-10-31 Thread Corey Burger
Good point. I can use the recent McTavish interchange here in Victoria as example of why citizen mapping is much faster and more responsive to on-the-ground changes. Corey On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Corey Burger wrote: > >> Are there

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk at Victoria GeoGeeks on Nov 3rd

2011-10-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Corey Burger wrote: > Are there any parts I am missing? That mapping is fun. :-) Knowing that the fantastic new coffee shop on the corner, isn't on any other map, and that you've just added it to OSM and people can use that information to find them within minut

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk at Victoria GeoGeeks on Nov 3rd

2011-10-31 Thread Corey Burger
Matthew asked me a question regarding my talk. Corey Sounds interesting. Do you think you can share what you talked about, and maybe the presentation with the rest of the group? Cheers, -- Matthew Buchanan -- Kamloops, BC My answer: I haven't yet given the talk, so I can't post how it went. My p

[Talk-ca] Talk at Victoria GeoGeeks on Nov 3rd

2011-10-31 Thread Corey Burger
hey all, I am giving a talk at the GeoGeeks Victoria meeting on November 3rd, alongside Maeve Lydon talking about University of Victoria community mapping efforts. Details at http://www.meetup.com/Victoria-GeoGeeks/events/34996422/ Cheers, Corey ___ T

[Talk-ca] Routing with OSM data

2011-10-31 Thread Richard Weait
Dear talk-ca If you want to see what your local data looks like to routing engines, OSM user apmon has just the demo for you. http://apmon.dev.openstreetmap.org/routing visit his page on the dev server, and select the "routing" tab. Then you can place origin and destination locations and choose