Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-08 Thread Austin Henry
On 2011-03-05, at 4:31 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > The routing data was updated as of a few hours ago, so your fixes from > earlier in the day should now show up when you test them. > > Also, all of Victoria Island should route properly as well as, perhaps > a US border town or two. I've tested

Re: [Talk-ca] WMS Layer for canvec data / toporama

2010-03-09 Thread Austin Henry
- Kevin Michael Smith arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > If you look at the GetCapabilities response it lists all the available > layers: > > http://wms.ess-ws.nrcan.gc.ca/wms/toporama_en?VERSION=1.1.1&request=GetCapabilities&service=wms > > It's down near the end. Just add all of them to

Re: [Talk-ca] Useful WMS URL

2009-11-26 Thread Austin Henry
- Austin Henry arranged a host of electrons thusly: - [snip] > It's got the Limits, Vegetation, Designated Areas, Hydrography, > Hypsography and Feature Names layers turned on, and makes a nice base > map for me. Their site has lots more information on what all the layers >

[Talk-ca] Useful WMS URL

2009-11-24 Thread Austin Henry
I thought I'd share A little tidbit that I've been finding useful lately while editing. It's a WMS url for Toporama (aka geogratis data). It is really nice for use in JOSM while tracing GPS tracks. http://wms.ess-ws.nrcan.gc.ca/wms/toporama_en?LAYERS=limits%2Cvegetation%2Cdesignated_areas%2Chydr

Re: [Talk-ca] Modifying GeoBase Ways.

2009-11-22 Thread Austin Henry
- James Ewen arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > Okay, I need some advise... > > I drove a nice little twisty back road today, and captured it with my > Blackberry. I have the trace uploaded to OSM, and have looked at it in > relation to the GeoBase way. [snip] > Should attribution stay? Th

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto aerial imagery

2009-11-09 Thread Austin Henry
- Andrew MacKinnon arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > The recently released City of Toronto aerial imagery is on the > following WMS server: [snip] > Trouble is, it uses a projection called "NAD27" (found that with a bit > of googling) and it shows up a few metres off in JOSM. Any way to fi

Re: [Talk-ca] How to check why an area is not being rendered

2009-10-27 Thread Austin Henry
(sorry to reply to such an old message, but the info might be useful, so...) - James A. Treacy arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > Is there a way to find out why an area is not being rendered? Not that I know of, but there's a way (tile by tile, unfortunately) to ask it to rerender. > I did

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Questions

2009-09-29 Thread Austin Henry
- Sam Vekemans arranged a host of electrons thusly: - [snip] > I didn't include the accuracy_meters=* tag, but i could. I didn't feel it > necessary, since it's just a rectangle. And when you go an map more detail > (add in where the school parking lot is) and where the playground/sports > area

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Questions

2009-09-29 Thread Austin Henry
- Sam Vekemans arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > Hi Adam & talk-ca list, > > Just looking at your changesets. looks good :) > > Wondering, is it needed to include the canvec2osm version # ? (maybe not) That should probably be included in the changeset tags, because it applies equally to e

Re: [Talk-ca] Import of NRN 092H04

2009-09-16 Thread Austin Henry
- Joe Richards arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > Is there a chance you could document the process in the wiki (even with a > pretty diagram for the stages)? The reason is I'm starting to think of some > of these things for the New Zealand import, and gradually discovering steps > that I kno

Re: [Talk-ca] Import of NRN 092H04

2009-09-15 Thread Austin Henry
- Adam Dunn arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > I know there's a lot of work going on with tools to deal with the government > sources, so I hope I'm not stepping on anybody's toes by going ahead with an > import. I just RoadMatched/imported NRN 092H04 (Chilliwack, Sardis, Cultus, > Agassiz),

Re: [Talk-ca] Van Island Update

2009-09-13 Thread Austin Henry
- Sam Vekemans arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > Awesome! Thanks, i'll have a look at it today. > Do you have the complete.osm file(s) of the area you imported? > I'd like to (almost) wipe what i did in Tofino in favour of GeoBase > roads, and its needed for western nanaimo, so jamie (and ot

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Yathusan vandalism

2009-09-03 Thread Austin Henry
- Sam Vekemans arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > Sure, i'll try :-) [snip -- not to say that I didn't like the thoughts, just that I'm deep in roadmatcher and don't have time to add to them] > Cheers, > Sam > > > On 9/3/09, Richard Weait wrote: > > Dear Sam, > > > > Andrew reported thes

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase Import conflict to share victoria.osm

2009-07-22 Thread Austin Henry
- Sam Vekemans arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > Hi all, > > I'm finding an interesting revelation here. > Since the RoadMatcher wasn't done, for this mapped area. What we did was > make the greater_victoria.osm file available. > > So here we have myself, who is running around in circles,

Re: [Talk-ca] Fixing GeoBase unconnected ways/nodes.

2009-07-22 Thread Austin Henry
- Sam Vekemans arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > Cool, > For the Saanich area (092b11), i've been dropping them in. > But i probably should be going in there and connecting the way to exising > data. Yes, please :) It's much much easier to do when you're pasting the roads in JOSM, versus l

Re: [Talk-ca] Fixing GeoBase unconnected ways/nodes.

2009-07-22 Thread Austin Henry
- Simon Wood arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > Hi all, > There are a lot of unconnected ways, created when GeoBase road matcher > found a match with existing data and did not connect new nodes. With > the work I have been doing with distance maps, I have inadvertantly > found a way to speed

Re: [Talk-ca] Lake Cowichan Now loaded (more of sample 092c area)

2009-06-16 Thread Austin Henry
- Sam Vekemans arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > Hi all, > (Sorry if im making too much traffic) > > Anyway, because of the IMMENSE volume of data that i'll be loaded, i feel > its important to keep everyone uptodate, so that you all (everyone) has a > chance to speak now, and yell at me ab

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleaning up after the GeoBase import

2009-06-13 Thread Austin Henry
- Michael Barabanov arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > Hmm, did I say "more authoritative"? I thought it was something like > "more consistent and topologically correct". Hmm, musing on the issue of topology (and assuming I understand what you mean by that term), it should be possible to wr

Re: [Talk-ca] cleaning up after the GeoBase import

2009-06-13 Thread Austin Henry
- William Lachance arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > > Having the uuids around also make it easier to talk about > > differences/errors between OSM and geobase data. Someone can look > > at a road in OSM and easily find the original GeoBase road (using > > your favourite gis tool) and comp

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase data vs. OSM data on import

2009-06-12 Thread Austin Henry
- Austin Henry arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > It means I've got more work to do, but there should be less effort > after-the-fact, so I don't mind re-running the exports & roadmatcher > bits. I might have the data in by the end of the week, given work & &g

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: 092 canvec import-and poi mapping party - Vancouver - Nanaimo - Victoria

2009-06-11 Thread Austin Henry
- si...@mungewell.org arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > > > Funny that... I shall be in Courtenay visiting friends from Sun (21st > > June) till Wed (24th June). > > I notice that there's nothing done for Courtney and the aerial photography > is non existant. > > Is it worth asking if it

Re: [Talk-ca] Collaboration between Geobase and OSM (was: cleaning up after the GeoBase import)

2009-06-11 Thread Austin Henry
- Mepham, Michael arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > James: > > In your message yesterday you state "The chances of GeoBase using OSM > data is slim to none, in my mind. I think they need to have tighter > control on the validity of data than OSM can provide. There are GeoBase > people on h

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleaning up after the GeoBase import

2009-06-10 Thread Austin Henry
- Corey Burger arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > The NIDs are going to go or be moved regardless, as people move and > combine objects. Come updates or new data, I really don't think they > are going to be all that useful. This means we really can't actually > trust the NIDs, because they ma

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase data vs. OSM data on import

2009-06-07 Thread Austin Henry
- Michel Gilbert arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > Hi Austin, > > With the experience I have doing import and road capture with my GPS I came > to the conclusion that if the data is bad I would delete it. If I were the > initial author of that road I you delete it with a complete set of new

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase data vs. OSM data on import

2009-06-07 Thread Austin Henry
- Richard Weait arranged a host of electrons thusly: - > On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 00:09 -0700, Austin Henry wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm working on importing (most of) the 082E tile, > > Kelowna, Osoyoos, Grand Forks That's the one. Penticton was my origin

[Talk-ca] Geobase data vs. OSM data on import

2009-06-07 Thread Austin Henry
Hi all, I'm working on importing (most of) the 082E tile, and the part of the import process where you match roads in RoadMatcher is taking ages, even though there's very little data in OSM for the area (the reason I picked this tile, along with the fact that I used to live in the area). The reas

Re: [Talk-ca] 092g07 imported and uploaded

2009-06-01 Thread Austin Henry
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 14:36 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: >(Argh! For some reason i don't get the talk-ca mailing list messages as >they happen, only when the build list arrives with 10 or so messages, >anyone know how to fix that) Sam, this is usually called digest mode. You should be able to ch

Re: [Talk-ca] 092g07 imported and uploaded

2009-06-01 Thread Austin Henry
- Michael Barabanov arranged a host of electrons thusly: - [snip] > I've also captured my notes at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/More_details_on_GeoBase_import_processand > fixed minor details in > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase_NRN_-_OSM_Map_Feature. If people > think the addit