Re: [Talk-ca] more auto-edits from bitcoin types: coindero.com

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a bit ugly. Also, no attribution on their maps. I am a bitcoin supporter in general and am glad to see places that accept bitcoin being mapped in OSM (I think there is a good fit between two open source projects there), but I want to see that

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian Openstreetmap Task Manager + Central Website

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glad to hear you are making use of the task manager. HOT has been discussing various improvements to the software, as well as provisions for making it easier for others to make use of the toolset. I have cc'ed Pierre Giraud who is the lead developer

Re: [Talk-ca] Montréal spammer?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Looking at the 'About the embassy' page http://bitcoinembassy.ca/new-page/ It looks like they are going to occupy several floors of the building. Not sure if this is just a new startup that doesn't have signs, etc, in place yet or what the deal is.

Re: [Talk-ca] Kelowna Open Data

Paul, I am working with some people who live in Kelowna doing some remote mapping to trace buildings in the city of Kelowna and elsewhere. I have asked them what they think about the import and they think it sounds good. The have done a bit of mapping but not a lot themselves, so I don't know ho

Re: [Talk-ca] Advice on Addressing

Individual buildings is definitely preferable to interpolation ways. For adding address coverage in Fargo, ND, I used the 'audio mapping' technique detailed on the wiki while riding my bike up one sidewalk and then down the other on each street. It goes very fast and works very well. I also gath

Re: [Talk-ca] Fredericton WMS Offset

Hi, I am not from the area, but I did want to post my 2 cents about this issue. Your idea of how the offset got started sounds correct. I would caution you though that GPS traces can be offset, too, due to atmospheric effects. To really get a good trace with no offset you need to do a few trace

[Talk-ca] Proposed mechanical edits: GeoBase/CanVec Service Surface and GeoBase/CanVec name spaces

The easiest way to fix this may just be with a text editor and xapi/overpass queries. First do a query to get a file of affected objects in a given area, then load the area in a text editor and do a search for the double space. Jumping the search ahead should take you not only to the given object