Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Well, only very large buildings can be found as polygons in the Canvec product. Furthermore, NRCan did not update the Canvec buildings layer for more than 20 years (the oldest is 1944), with only a few exceptions… Daniel From: James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 22 October, 2016

Re: [Talk-ca] Light rail mapping questions

Hi Mike, Am 2016-10-22 um 20:43 schrieb Mike Boos: > I don't know if I'd characterize this as a "Karlsuhe model" train-tram - > the system is entirely within a single urban area (even if it does span two > adjacent cities), it just uses an existing rail corridor in some places. > Unlike the

Re: [Talk-ca] Light rail mapping questions

Hi Am 2016-10-22 um 21:11 schrieb James: > Could lanes work? > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes > > Example: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes#Two_driving_directions > > What ever the train tag would be: > train:lanes:forward=no|yes > train:lanes:backwards=no|yes > Then for

Re: [Talk-ca] Light rail mapping questions

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:train Train does exist as a vehicle type As for cars: I think it would be motor_vehicle: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:motor_vehicle I got the vehicle types from: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access#Transport_mode_restrictions On

Re: [Talk-ca] Light rail mapping questions

Could lanes work? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes Example: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes#Two_driving_directions What ever the train tag would be: train:lanes:forward=no|yes train:lanes:backwards=no|yes Then for passenger cars would be opposite? car:lanes:forward=yes|no

Re: [Talk-ca] Light rail mapping questions

Thanks Michael for your reply > Am 18.10.2016 um 03:52 schrieb Mike Boos: > > Along on-road sections, the dedicated rail right-of-way moves from > > centre-running to the outsides of the street at certain intersections. (A > > by-product of some of the political compromises in route choices.)

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

On 2016-10-22 12:12 AM, James wrote: > Converting, DWG to DXF to open in qgis should be fun nah, all that pointenclicky would do me no good at all. This is what OGR is for: ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON -s_srs epsg:2951 -t_srs epsg:4326 \ -dialect SQLite \ -sql "select * from entities

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

http://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/vector/canvec/shp/ManMade/ 50K man made just seems to be nodes of where buildings are located, instead of outlines. Judging by : http://atlas.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html They have a few buildings in CanVEC, but not all of them. Seems like massive

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

On 2016-10-21 11:41 PM, James wrote: > Sounds like it, but the data handed to us didnt have sidewalks and > roads, driveways etc. Ottawa may have exported data from this file Yes, for sure. I've now had more of a chance to look at the data (thanks, Ottawa, for providing no docs at all ...). I'm

[Talk-ca] weeklyOSM #326 10/11/2016-10/17/2016

The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 326, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/8214/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM is brought to you by ...