Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap as a data source for visually impaired people

2017-02-06 Thread john whelan
Comment one Overpassis not infallible. Someone did an Overpassquery to find the number of streets with a French name in Ottawa they came back with a dozen. I downloaded the dump and found 1,600+. https://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html and use osmconvert64 to manipulate it. There is some wo

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

2017-02-06 Thread john whelan
My recommendation and it is only a recommendation is we wait until we hear back from the working group. We seem to have an issue with who has the authority to give permission both on our own side and within various levels of government and what the wording of the permission means. The idea that o

[Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap as a data source for visually impaired people

2017-02-06 Thread Dave Dowding
Hi, I'm studying Geographic Information Systems and am doing a dissertation on whether OSM data is a good data sources for visually impaired people. The evaluation of different geographic data sources for visually impaired people seems to be under researched, though very important for those who nee