[Talk-ca] Guelph, Ontario OSM Mappy Hour

2012-01-11 Thread John Kerr
Hello Everyone A new OSM group will meet on Tuesday January 31 , 7:00 PM at Coco Latte in the old Quebec Street Mall. For more information http://www.meetup.com/Waterloo-OSM/events/47592742/ Cheers John Kerr -- Linux "Almost every major stock exchange uses it. Half of the world's trades happe

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please

2012-01-11 Thread Sam Dyck
In regards to Andrew and Richard's comments, I find place:locality to be suitable for this situation. I have used it for places like Diamond, Manitoba. It has also been used to mark highway junctions with names (such as Confusion Corner in Winnipeg). Sam __

[Talk-ca] License upgrade readiness - contact and remapping

2012-01-11 Thread Richard Weait
l mappers bring to every edit. Below, I have included links to several Canadian cities in OSMI. Sorry that the links are so long. :-) Best regards. Richard [1] http://odbl.poole.ch/ [2] "Nodes Created" http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/munin.html [3] http://odbl.poole.ch/canada-20111208-201

[Talk-ca] Mapping statistics and fun

2012-01-11 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, If you have been contributing to OpenStreetMap for a while, you might not have a clear memory of everything that you have done. There are some really interesting tools to show the work of individual OSM accounts. I really like the heat maps[1] and summaries [2] and there are a bunch of

[Talk-ca] OSM meetings in other towns

2012-01-11 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, I keep talking about the fun we have at OSM events, and I wonder how to help others start similar events in their towns? The conferences are super. If you can go, you should go. No question. SotM 2012 will be in Tokyo Japan this year and I'm very excited about that. Smaller events l

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please

2012-01-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Andrew Allison wrote: > Hello: > >        I'm scratching my head as to an appropriate tag? Seems odd that there > isn't a reference to something like man_made:sign_post railway:marker > railway:location railway:signal etc. > > >        Punt the ball to the tagging

[Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please

2012-01-11 Thread Andrew Allison
Hello: I'm scratching my head as to an appropriate tag? Seems odd that there isn't a reference to something like man_made:sign_post railway:marker railway:location railway:signal etc. Punt the ball to the tagging list? tagg...@openstreetmap.org Andrew

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please

2012-01-11 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Bonjour Sam, You're right! As we don't have the resources to update the entire map content, we might have to rely on you folks and use your work to update NRCan maps. Daniel -Original Message- From: Sam Dyck [mailto:samueld...@gmail.com] Sent: January 11, 2012 11:20 To: talk-ca@opens

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please

2012-01-11 Thread Sam Dyck
Canvec has the same problem, stations that had service many years ago are still tagged as stations, even if they been replaced by new stations. Smith Falls, Ontario has three stations shown, one is the current VIA Rail station, one is a former station and the third is not even on a track. Sam Dyc

[Talk-ca] Some french translation advice

2012-01-11 Thread Tyler Gunn
I'm working on a JOSM plugin to help rename/reclassify provincial roads and provincial trunk highways in Manitoba in the Canvec data. The goal is to enforce a common naming for PRs and PTHs in MB. Generally, highways with ref=0-99 are considered "Provincial Trunk Highways", and as such I've got th

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please

2012-01-11 Thread Harald Kliems
Hi Andrew. > From: Andrew Allison [andrew.alli...@gmail.com] > FYI, I work for a railway for what it's worth. Pretty much every 10 > miles or so is a named location. I wouldn't tag it as a station but a > POI seems appropriate to me as a railroader :-) Rail fans would also use > the POI as referen

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please

2012-01-11 Thread Andrew Allison
> > There is a POI identified as "Davis". I lived in this city for over thirty > > years; > > no passenger train ever stopped there, and I never saw a freight train stop > > either. There *is* a steel box containing rail equipment of some sort > > there, and > > there has always > > been a si

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please

2012-01-11 Thread Harald Kliems
Hi Tim. From: Tim FitzGerald [t...@tfitzgerald.ca] > I'm a long-time contributor to OSM in greater Montreal, but this my first > post on > this mailing list. I hope everyone is doing well. Good to hear from a fellow Montrealer! > There have been some railway "stations" (ie. rail:station) adde