Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i and Mapathons with High Schools

Hi Jonathan, I work with a GIS users group in Manitoba (MGUG.ca) and we were talking about how to use OSM as a learning tool for high school students as well. >From our education sub-committee we discussed that building footprints or adding roads doesn't add to what the provincial high school geo

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i and Mapathons with High Schools

On Jan 23, 2018, at 5:53 PM, john whelan wrote: > It should have been 60 per hour. Apols. I can probably map at one per five > seconds but new mappers did and will take much longer. The iD figures of > four to twenty buildings per mapathon session are real numbers. OK,

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i and Mapathons with High Schools

I agree that absolute novices unfamiliar with OSM are not what we might call "an ideal candidate," for BC2020i but it certainly has been and can be done. That said, "coming with Java preloaded" is a certain kind of "trigger warning" that "you have to be this tall to ride the ride." That's

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

John Whelan says: > Thoughts? There are obviously "deep thoughts" going on regarding how OSM can document and provide better geo data, routing and maps for Canadian cyclists: my hat is off to the serious "front-loading" going on here and I wish to encourage it so that it may flourish.

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

But it doesn't address traffic volumes or speed limits. Should we tag speed limits? Cheerio John On 23 January 2018 at 18:38, James wrote: > All that documentation was produced by Cycle Ottawa data devision. So by > cyclists for cyclists > > On Jan 23, 2018 6:30 PM, "john

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

All that documentation was produced by Cycle Ottawa data devision. So by cyclists for cyclists On Jan 23, 2018 6:30 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > The SOTM presentation was interesting. Especially the bit about the 5% > who would cycle anyway and these are often the people

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

The SOTM presentation was interesting. Especially the bit about the 5% who would cycle anyway and these are often the people who are asked about what should be done to improve things for cyclists. Are we asking the wrong people? I think we need to identify what tags would be useful for routing

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:56 PM john whelan wrote: > Perhaps what we need is a way to tag cycle friendly streets. Typically > I'll use a mixture of minor side streets and paths when using the trike. > > So I'd prefer a routing that used these as much as possible rather

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

Hi John, After talking to many different folks about what their requirements are for a cycling map, it is clear to me that the cycling routing algorithm requires user-configurable tuning parameters.   People have different requirements at different times: from "find a nice path for a 6 year

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

James wrote: There's also documentation that Ottawa is using(not final thats why its not on the wiki) with example pictures: https://github.com/osmottawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide/blob/master/README.md There are differences with respect to US bike pathes Thanks for the link to that page,

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

Perhaps what we need is a way to tag cycle friendly streets. Typically I'll use a mixture of minor side streets and paths when using the trike. So I'd prefer a routing that used these as much as possible rather than more major collector roads and you can't always determine from the speed limit

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

There's also documentation that Ottawa is using(not final thats why its not on the wiki) with example pictures: https://github.com/osmottawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide/blob/master/README.md There are differences with respect to US bike pathes On Jan 23, 2018 4:10 PM, "Matthew Darwin"

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

Hi Steve, I share your desire to not duplicate stuff that is already done. There is a strong attempt in the Ottawa community to use standard OSM tags highway:cycleway, cycleway:lane/track and bicycle:*etc.. The bicycle router is very nice (cycle.travel). However, I think an Ottawa bike

[Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

Oops, the bicycle router I wanted to refer to in my previous is http://cycle.travel by Richard Fairhurst (whom I inexplicably confused with Simon Poole). SteveA California ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org