Re: [Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

2013-10-02 Thread James Mast
@ Harald Don't worry, I've had worse directed at me. It will not stop me from contributing or talking on the mail list in the future. I've learned to have tough skin. I personally prefer to just trace off of Bing, as I've been mostly doing this in the US (where I live) to fix up highways that

Re: [Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

2013-10-02 Thread Tom Taylor
On 02/10/2013 11:38 AM, Andrew Allison wrote: ... Hello: For what's it is worth, I'm slowly systematically importing Canvec data. This is one really, really big country :-) Did I say really big. For example Tile 0.0 then 0.1 then 0.2 etc I'm up to Tile 041 I04 2.3 ht

Re: [Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

2013-10-02 Thread Daniel Begin
Hi Steve, You wrote that one of the hardest parts was to figure out what set to download from Canvec ftp site... There was a link in the Canvec Wiki page to find out what file to download (using the NTS map number like 021E05) but it is broken now. I found another way to find it out. Go to... ht

Re: [Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

2013-10-02 Thread Andrew Allison
On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 18:15 -0400, James Mast wrote: > Anybody want to import this town? It's completely missing in OSM data > except for {66}. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/note/32942 > > -James > > ___ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@open

Re: [Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

2013-10-02 Thread Steve Roy
When I initially started adding to/editing OSM maps it was roads and trails from my GPS data. However in BC there are large areas where there is nothing on the map - so after finding this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canvec#Canvec_Product_-_Datasets I managed to d/l some tile sets from CanV

Re: [Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

2013-10-02 Thread Harald Kliems
James E, you might not have intended it that way, but your email came across as pretty hostile. If I had been the recipient, I certainly would not have been encouraged to contribute but to never ever mail to this list again. @James M.: Thanks for your initial email. The problem you pointed out has

Re: [Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

2013-10-02 Thread James Ewen
I understand your reasoning, but there are some flaws in the logic. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:23 AM, James Mast wrote: > 1. I don't have access to the Canvec data that includes the road names. If one person has access to the data, everyone does. If the data were not available, no one could import

Re: [Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

2013-10-02 Thread James Mast
1. I don't have access to the Canvec data that includes the road names. 2. I didn't know if somebody was planning an import in that area. 3. I tend to stay out of areas that I'm not really failure with in Ontario as I've never been that far North in Ontario (Canada Wonderland is about as far as

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

2013-10-02 Thread michael bishop
after fixing my josm plugin for canvec(didnt notice it was broken), i used it to import all of the addr:interpolation ways dont know the area, so i'm not sure whats safe to edit next On 10/01/2013 07:49 PM, Harald Kliems wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: *Harald Kliems* mai