[Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2016-10-17 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, I wanted to give you a heads up that my colleagues on the Telenav map team are starting work on adding turn restrictions in Toronto, Montréal, and later on also Vancouver, Ottawa and Calgary. We are using OpenStreetView and Mapillary as sources. If you have any questions or concerns,

[Talk-ca] Light rail mapping questions

2016-10-17 Thread Mike Boos
Hello Waterloo Region is in the process of building a light rail system. This has meant a lot of streets are being reconstructed and changed, and now that large portions of the line are completed, there are lots of changes that will need to be made to map what is the largest infrastructure

Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-17 Thread James
I'm the one running the tasking manager. On Oct 17, 2016 9:08 PM, "AJ Ashton" wrote: > Hi John, > > Thanks for the writeup. I think this is the first post that's made it > fully clear what is going on. As I was re-reading the previous StatCan > thread earlier today I seemed to

Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-17 Thread AJ Ashton
Hi John, Thanks for the writeup. I think this is the first post that's made it fully clear what is going on. As I was re-reading the previous StatCan thread earlier today I seemed to be missing something - now I guess it was context available to those who attended in-person meetings. I don't

[Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-17 Thread john whelan
First I'm not running it but I used to work there before I retired and have since have been bribed with a mug of coffee to provide some input so I think have an understanding of what they are trying to do. Essentially they are interested in adding details to non-residential buildings in Ottawa /

Re: [Talk-ca] Avoiding data redundancy

2016-10-17 Thread john whelan
Orleans is one where the postal address does not match the municipal one. Orleans I'd a figment of Canada Post's imagination. Cheerio John On 17 Oct 2016 3:03 pm, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > Hi Jamie, > > > Seeing as there are boundary polygons for Ottawa, Ontario and

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Denis, On 10/17/2016 11:43 PM, Denis Carriere wrote: > At least this will be fixed... can you please make sure that this revert > is at least finished properly without thousands of warnings. I don't > want to be cleaning up a poor revert for days. The person responsible for cleaning up a poor

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread Pierre Béland
James Dans JOSM la fonction Remplacer la géométrie permet de retracer rapidement et de conserver l'historique Installer UtilsPlugin2 d'abord je crois. 1. Raccourci B (building) je trace l'immeuble 2. Je clique sur ancienne version, ctrl+clic nouvelle version de l'immeuble 3. Raccourci

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread Michael Reichert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Denis, Am 17.10.2016 um 23:22 schrieb Denis Carriere: > *(Frederik Ramm) *just did a mass revert [0] with his revert script > [1] created in 2009 and now we have 20,000+ warnings of empty nodes > within a small section of Ottawa [2]. > > Not

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread James
You'd think someone working on the DWG would know how to revert a changeset properly. This is even worse than when there were a few duplicated addresses. On Oct 17, 2016 5:23 PM, "Denis Carriere" wrote: > Ok now things are even worse! > > *(Frederik Ramm) *just did a

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread Denis Carriere
Ok now things are even worse! *(Frederik Ramm) *just did a mass revert [0] with his revert script [1] created in 2009 and now we have 20,000+ warnings of empty nodes within a small section of Ottawa [2]. Not only did *(Frederik Ramm) *undo James commits, but now you've introduced over 100,000+

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread James
>From Rps333 in changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/42876740: This is part of the Stats Canada Open data project. And has been discussed on Talk:ca It has received OSM Ottawa community approval. OSM Ottawa has been planning on adding the build for 3 months now. We have a dedicated

[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada, Launching!

2016-10-17 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello, We are now live and launching! Thanks everyone for your help and let's see how this goes! http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/crowdsourcing Bonjour, Nous sommes en ligne! Le projet est lancé! Merci à tous pour votre aide et voyons comment ça se déroulera !

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 2016-10-17 03:33 PM, James wrote: > Stewart, that's where you are wrong. Ottawa has supplied data(footprints > and address) to Stats Can to import into OSM for their project under the > Canada Open Gov License so there would be no issues with licensing. > > We are using that data. You have

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread James
Stewart, that's where you are wrong. Ottawa has supplied data(footprints and address) to Stats Can to import into OSM for their project under the Canada Open Gov License so there would be no issues with licensing. We are using that data. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Stewart C. Russell

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread Stewart C. Russell
Hi Frederik, > Which is why I'm reverting this import (and the deletions that went with > it) now. Not because we shouldn't ever import the data, but because I > don't want a fait accompli to stand in the way of a serious discussion > about the matter. There are a *lot* more import changesets by

Re: [Talk-ca] Avoiding data redundancy

2016-10-17 Thread Stewart C. Russell
Hi Jamie, > Seeing as there are boundary polygons for Ottawa, Ontario and Canada. I > think to reduce data redundancy these should be removed. I agree, but there are others who don't. I know that andrewpmk uses city and province tags as progress markers. There's also the potential utility where

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 17.10.2016 um 19:20 schrieb Michael Reichert: > I have asked a DWG member to block him to stop the ongoing import and > start a discussion. > https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1065 The second user block (now for three hours): https://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/1066 reason:

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 10/17/2016 07:49 PM, AJ Ashton wrote: > All of this sounds like they were planning one something like an online > mapping party, not an import of government data. Certainly there is no > mention that all existing buildings in Ottawa would be wiped out first. Which is why I'm reverting

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi James, Am 17.10.2016 um 19:37 schrieb James: > Like this one Kevin? > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2016-July/007034.html > > or this one? > https://www.mail-archive.com/talk-ca@openstreetmap.org/msg07024.html > > or this one? >

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread Kevin Farrugia
Yup, those ones James. Sorry, I'm in something right now so I can't Google. :P On Oct 17, 2016 1:37 PM, "James" wrote: > Like this one Kevin? > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2016-July/007034.html > > or this one? >

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread James
Like this one Kevin? https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2016-July/007034.html or this one? https://www.mail-archive.com/talk-ca@openstreetmap.org/msg07024.html or this one? https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2016-August/007151.html or this one?

Re: [Talk-ca] Avoiding data redundancy

2016-10-17 Thread Pierre Béland
Bonjour James C'est une excellente idée.  J'ai corrigé les adresses au sud de Montréal ce qui permet maintenant de faire une recherche adresse. OSM Inspector (OSMI) est très utile aussi pour vérifier que les adresses sont codées correctement, identifier celles a corriger.  Il y a aussi une

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi AJ, Am 17.10.2016 um 18:59 schrieb AJ Ashton: > I haven't seen any substantial discussion about the Ottawa buildings & > addresses import anywhere. I did see the thread a number of weeks back, > "Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada," but I didn't see > anything discussed that sounds

[Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread AJ Ashton
I haven't seen any substantial discussion about the Ottawa buildings & addresses import anywhere. I did see the thread a number of weeks back, "Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada," but I didn't see anything discussed that sounds like the planning of a mass import. The wiki page linked

[Talk-ca] Avoiding data redundancy

2016-10-17 Thread James
I've been looking into data in Ottawa(this is one of many cities that do this) and a lot of addresses/buildings have "addr:city" and I even get "addr:province" and "addr:country". Seeing as there are boundary polygons for Ottawa, Ontario and Canada. I think to reduce data redundancy these should