urs ago were already processed.
Good luck!
Frank
On 01-07-2017 09:52, Jochen Topf wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:47:36PM +0200, Frank Steggink wrote:
On 30-06-2017 21:21, Jochen Topf wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 08:16:40PM +0200, Frank Steggink wrote:
Maybe I'm not understanding it, but
ially as a polygon and was
later converted to a relation?
Canvec 10.0 doesnt have the issues of double tagging, just overlapping
On Jun 30, 2017 3:22 PM, "Jochen Topf" <joc...@remote.org
<mailto:joc...@remote.org>> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 08:16:40P
On 30-06-2017 21:21, Jochen Topf wrote:
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 08:16:40PM +0200, Frank Steggink wrote:
Maybe I'm not understanding it, but in the OSM inspector [1] I just see one
case of old style multipolygon, in Manitoba. Last week, when you posted your
original message, I just saw one case
Hi Jochen,
Maybe I'm not understanding it, but in the OSM inspector [1] I just see
one case of old style multipolygon, in Manitoba. Last week, when you
posted your original message, I just saw one case in New Brunswick.
IIRC, it was a park, not even from the Canvec import.
In the OSM
Hi Daniel,
Actually, the part between Quebec City and Beaupré of Route 138 should
still be tagged as a trunk. Beaupré is not a large population centre,
but the layout of the road is almost that of a motorway. Except that
there are traffic lights instead of interchanges.
Regards,
Frank
On
Hi Dega,
Sorry, you can't just get away with not creating holes for lakes,
clearings, etc. What if you get an extract of OSM, and you're only
interested in the forests, because you want to calculate the percentage
of forest coverage. You don't get information about lakes, heath and
other
Hopefully they'll change the license so it becomes truly open. They
probably don't have as much experience with open data licenses as we, as
the OSM community, have. Because we go farther than just visualizing the
data, these questions were probably beyond their original thoughts about
how
On 14-11-2012 19:37, Pierre Béland wrote:
Pierre Lamoureux***:* Mardi 13 novembre 2012 23h54
**
Je suis un nouveau participant au projet OSM, par contre je ne suis
pas un débutant en cartographie et je saisis assez bien les termes de
la discussion en cours
En passant, j’ai un peu
Hi Paul,
It probably won't come to you as a surprise if I would say it is
acceptable, but to a certain degree. A map with no data is not a map. A
map with inconsistent data is still a map, but obviously something is
not right. A map with perfectly consistent data doesn't need to tell the
Hi Pierre,
I'm glad to see you're taking a constructive approach towards the
discussion initiated by Paul :) I definitely agree something needs to be
done to make imports more manageable, especially the Canvec import.
There is also an amount of work left behind as I mentioned in my other
On 19-10-2012 21:46, Harald Kliems wrote:
Hi Pierre,
thanks for the response.
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr wrote:
I dont know how you conclude that there is no wetlands around this area in
Laval. It is not sufficient to see houses around to conclude
Hi Pierre,
If I recall correctly, Daniel once mentioned that the municipality
boundaries were to become part of Canvec. I don't know when that would
eventually happen, but he or someone from NRCan might confirm that. Or
someone who has connections in the Quebec government might attempt to
lake with a inner role in the wooded area polygon relation?
Pierre
De :Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org
À : talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Envoyé le : Mardi 21 août 2012 13h32
Objet : [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues
Hi,
Today I was contacted by someone inquiring
/recherche.aspx?s=lac-ouimetx=0y=0
for lac Ouimet results
Pierre
*De :* Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org
*À :* talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
*Envoyé le :* Mardi 21 août 2012 13h32
*Objet :* [Talk-ca] Canvec
area polygon relation?
*/Pierre/**//*
*De :*Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org
*À :* talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
*Envoyé le :* Mardi 21 août 2012 13h32
*Objet :* [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues
Hi,
Today I was contacted
Hi Bruno,
Although there are many more European datasets listed in the catalogue,
many of them are very small, covering only a city, province, etc. In
North America there are a few, but very large datasets which have been
imported or are in the process of being imported. Examples in the US
On 31-7-2012 15:09, Bruno Remy wrote:
Does this Quebec city Opendata Licence compatible with OSM? (Y/N) And Why?
http://donnees.ville.quebec.qc.ca/licence.aspx
I'll give this a try with my understanding of French, so be aware... ;)
I'll only pay attention to the clauses which might be an
Quoting Fabian Rodriguez magic...@member.fsf.org:
On 07/17/2012 06:38 PM, Bruno Remy wrote:
bonjour,
Avez-vous déjà pensé à l'indication des lieux autochtones? Il y en a
beaucoup à travers le Canada et comment les intégrer à nos
cartographies à tendance francophones ou anglophones dans nos
On 6-7-2012 13:27, Richard Weait wrote:
Do you remember how you first heard of OSM, or first got mapping?
I think the first sign I saw of OSM was in a post on slashdot in June 2006.
Share your story. How'd you get started?
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Nicolas, thanks a lot for the data and the information!
Of course the first page I went to was the License page: [1]
Unfortunately this license doesn't seem to be compatible with any of the
current OSM licenses (neither CC-BY-SA nor ODbL). The reason is that the
license states that it it non
On 30-5-2012 18:41, Bruno Remy wrote:
Hi folks!
Here from Quebec city (Qc) we're starting a local OSM group of mapping
users and contributors.
Hope we'll have fun and a lot of mapping partys !
At first, we'd like to exchange working expriences with the gang of
Toronto saw recently on
On 10-4-2012 21:53, Pierre Béland wrote:
Harald,
It probably mean that this have been corrected already but that tiles
have not been updated yet for all zoom levels. I often see that when a
erase a feature, updates can be made rapidly at some zoom levels and
not at others. And after a day or
On 31-3-2012 7:25, Richard Weait wrote:
Okay, so, u. Wow!
I've been looking around with the OSM Inspector to see how the license
clean up is progressing elsewhere.
You've been busy.
Victoria and Nanaimo looked pretty dire a few weeks ago. They're in
much better shape now. Southwestern
I've seen some of these deviations as well during Canvec import. Because
they are so small ( 1 meter), I just decided to glue the polygons
together, so any slivers are gone.
It is inconvenient though. Could it be related to that some sheets were
originally still in NAD27, instead of NAD83
On 19-12-2011 20:38, john whelan wrote:
Yes because it is the individual contributor who has to accept the
OSM's new licensing terms, the data was not imported directly from
CANVEC into OSM.
As a Canadian tax payer I'm not quite certain I like the idea of OSM
having the power to re-license
On 19-12-2011 18:57, Andrew Allison wrote:
Hello:
Unless I'm missing something or it's a bug Using the OSM Inspector
tool. The coastline data as going to be removed, or at least a
significant amount.
On 19-12-2011 22:20, john whelan wrote:
But recently I noted that the CANVEC tags are being removed. Two
people in the talk-ca list mentioned recently they had done so.
Cheerio John
According to my mailbox the answers were different. Jonathan mentioned
that he used other data sources, so the
On 19-12-2011 22:40, Frank Steggink wrote:
On 19-12-2011 22:20, john whelan wrote:
But recently I noted that the CANVEC tags are being removed. Two
people in the talk-ca list mentioned recently they had done so.
Cheerio John
According to my mailbox the answers were different. Jonathan
On 4-12-2011 15:22, Steve Singer wrote:
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Connors, Bernie (SNB) wrote:
Richard,
Do you have a link to Import Guidelines that are specific to
Canvec data?
I think http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec needs to have some
specific guidelines for canvec imports.
In
On 25-11-2011 16:04, Richard Weait wrote:
Dear All,
The London hack weekend starts in a few hours in London (yay!),
England (oh.) One of these days I'll organize a hack weekend in
London, Ontario, just for laughs.
Interesting things come out of these hack weekends and sometimes we
see the
Hi Daniel,
I just had contact with him yesterday after I noticed the incorrect
rendering. He responded quickly. I asked him whether he was aware of the
problems, and if he could use some help. He has seen the flooding and
reverted some of the changes yesterday, notably the broken coastline
is another topic, which has been discussed before.
Frank
On 11-11-11 10:31 PM, Frank Steggink wrote:
Hi Daniel,
I just had contact with him yesterday after I noticed the incorrect
rendering. He responded quickly. I asked him whether he was aware of
the problems, and if he could use some help. He has
On 11-06-07 06:31 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:24 PM, john whelanjwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote:
I would be extremely happy to see all my edits removed.
So you are happy to be known as a vandal, in order to ... Why? That seems odd.
He wants his data removed, and he
On 11-06-03 05:30 AM, Samuel Longiaru wrote:
OK... I can set up one dedicated to Canvec imports. That's no problem
if that is the preferred practice. I do remember now reading that
reference in the Wiki that states Consider creating a new user for
the import but I interpreted the reason
On 11-05-30 09:15 PM, Me (Gmail) wrote:
I've been working on improving the Barrie, Ontario area, and I'm
trying to figure out what is going on with/what to do about Lake
Simcoe.
There are multiple CanVec-imported ways that together make up a fairly
detailed, accurate representation of the lake.
@Daniel:
I finally got around to add a few more issues to the page mentioned by
Adam last week. I'm not sure if you or anyone else also encountered
them, but here they are:
* Some roads are tagged as highway=unclasified (with one 's').
These are mostly linking roads, and usually have
On 11-02-03 09:14 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
Zoomed in example.
http://open.mapquest.ca/link/6-cO9mOA4Z
I think they've made an improvement in interchange rendering.
Looks good :)
However, I wonder what the (C)2011 MapQuest is doing in the lower
right corner. Something for Hurricane / Emilie
On 11-02-03 10:18 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Frank Stegginkstegg...@steggink.org wrote:
On 11-02-03 09:14 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
Zoomed in example.
http://open.mapquest.ca/link/6-cO9mOA4Z
I think they've made an improvement in interchange rendering.
Looks
On 11-02-03 10:18 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Frank Stegginkstegg...@steggink.org wrote:
On 11-02-03 09:14 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
Zoomed in example.
http://open.mapquest.ca/link/6-cO9mOA4Z
I think they've made an improvement in interchange rendering.
Looks
On 10-08-12 06:27 PM, G. Michael Carter wrote:
Seems JOSM has a tag on the object called action
node id='20266016' action='delete'
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Hi Michael,
Salut Daniel,
Yes, I'm still alive :) but unfortunately I can't find much time to
follow what is going on in Canada. (The import of Dutch landuse data is
partially to blame ;) ) As you might expect, I've looked a bit at the
021L14 data (Quebec City area). Here are some comments, and hopefully
Hi Nicolas,
Nicolas Gignac wrote:
The contact I had in the government of Quebec have raised issues on
delivering up-to-date datasets in OSM, such as the Administrative
boundaries of Québec (BDGA).
Could someone help this person to understand quickly the advantage for
his organisation to
Hi Pierre-Luc,
Are you referring to buildings near Montreal or near Quebec City. In
both cases buildings have been updated recently. Or are you talking
about buildings outside of Quebec?
If you would like to know who has uploaded them, you can select a
building, and view the history. When you
Hi,
The duplicate building nodes can be (more or less) efficiently fixed
with JOSM. When you install the Validator plugin (perhaps it's already
done by default by now), you'll see which nodes are duplicated. The
simplest way to solve them would be to use the Fix button.
However, generally it
Nicolas Gignac wrote:
Yeah, I know, but as an overlays it is still showing what it can be
integrated into OSM, it is a good start!!!
What is your strategy to clear legal details?
If you need help stay in touch with me, because I am working in the
government of Quebec and I know really well
Hi all,
Today I have (finally) worked on large features in Canvec data (forests,
water, etc.), and I have come up with a method how to deal with them.
This currently involves PostGIS, but maybe I'll use GEOS or another
method, so that it isn't necessary to load data in a DB. More details
will
Emilie Laffray wrote:
On 23/01/2010 06:38, Sam Vekemans wrote:
Mapnik -osm2pgsql layers
Thats awesome visualization!
Is it possable to create a mapnik osm2pgsql set of layers that would
allow seeing just select features?
I guess im talking about a wmf service. (which i barely
Lennard wrote:
Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote:
You have strong Mapnik / osm2pgsql skills! :)
The force is strong in this apprentice.
Master Ldp,
OK, I needed some guidance. So what?
I'll spare the details; that would only be humiliating. ;)
Frank
Frank Steggink wrote:
Frank Steggink wrote:
Hi,
As a bit of a challenge I've looked at the administrative data pointed
out by Nicolas Gignac: [1]. I know there are some doubts about the
accuracy, but this was also meant as an exercise to deal with this kind
of data. Maybe it can
Hi,
As a bit of a challenge I've looked at the administrative data pointed
out by Nicolas Gignac: [1]. I know there are some doubts about the
accuracy, but this was also meant as an exercise to deal with this kind
of data. Maybe it can be reused for other purposes, although I haven't
written
Frank Steggink wrote:
Hi,
As a bit of a challenge I've looked at the administrative data pointed
out by Nicolas Gignac: [1]. I know there are some doubts about the
accuracy, but this was also meant as an exercise to deal with this kind
of data. Maybe it can be reused for other purposes
Hi Yves,
FWIW, I was able to browse the site, in order to see what is available
and at what cost, with Ubuntu / Firefox. Maybe you have some extensions
(like NoScript) blocking something. For one, I had to allow JS to be
executed, but that's all.
Regarding the infrastructure, there are
Hi,
Regarding government contacts: I believe Nicolas has contacts within the
government himself, so he might be in the best position to make some
inquiries. It would be wonderful if we could do something really useful
with it (i.e. importing in OSM).
I've looked at the 1:1M data, and it is in
Regarding the area names: they are in the E00 files, and also in the
generated pat.adf files, so it shouldn't be a problem to match them up
with the numeric identifiers.
Frank
Frank Steggink wrote:
Hi,
Regarding government contacts: I believe Nicolas has contacts within the
government
Hi,
I'll create a number of OSM files based on Geobase which can be imported
by Daniel. Re. the existing data, it might be better to remove it,
although I don't know how much it is. Daniel, are your imports only
confined to Laval, or do they extend other tiles? I can create a script
which can
are secondary
or tertiary. I think this depends on whether there are buildings along
it, correct? Perhaps this is best to be fixed by someone familiar with
this area. I could also change it, and someone else can update my
corrections.
Frank
Frank Steggink wrote:
Hi,
I'll create a number of OSM
Hi Daniel,
The problem is confined in and around Laval area. It won't be necessary to
remove the roads because there is already a lot of work that have been done
and I am completing the correction - using JOSM. If the community give me
enough time ;-)
It will be all set properly soon :-)
any local meetings. Several of them have listed
themselves on the wiki: [4]. There is even a separate city page for
Duncan: [5], listing another local mapper.
Cheers,
Frank Steggink
[1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features
[3
Hi Sam,
I'll try to keep it short, and I won't crosspost to Imports and OSM dev
Sherbrooke. Only the original message was posted to those lists as well,
since there have been Canvec-related discussions on them in the past.
What was not mentioned is that CanVec is just 1 of the many datasets
Sam Vekemans wrote:
Hi Frank,
I get the feeling that the group doesnt want me to be working with
the import process anymore (since i wasnt invited to the chat after
Emelie was done speaking)
is that a fair assumption?
Anyway, thats (seriously) fine for me, as its a BIG wait off my
Hi M.A. Gagnon,
The goal is to import nearly all of the features of Canvec. That is why
the conversion script is converting all the themes at once, but not per
theme. However, I can imagine that it is more convenient to focus on
one or a few themes at first. This would be a nice addition for
and installing
setuptools or maybe easy_install
John
*From:* Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org
*To:* JOHN SMART smarto...@rogers.com
*Cc:* talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
*Sent:* Sat, November 21, 2009 12:23
includes GDAL and OGR.
What more / different do I need, to satisfy this Python bindings
requirement?
Am I still on the right track?
Thanks for any more help
John
*From:* Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org
*To:* John
://www.steggink.org/osm/Geobase_NB_021N/021n08_out.osm.zip
[2]
http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?mlat=47.375mlon=-68.25minlat=47.25minlon=-68.5maxlat=47.5maxlon=-68box=yeslayers=B000FTF
Frank Steggink wrote:
Hi John,
It's been a while ago since I installed this. I didn't have GDAL on my
machine
Hi all,
Hereby I would like to announce the Canvec Import Party, which will be
held in Sherbrooke, Québec, on December 5th. It has been referred to as
the couch mapping party, but at the intended location there are no
couches available ;) The location is a computer lab at the University of
Hi John,
Thanks for looking at the scripts. Please see below.
John Smart wrote:
Hello
I would like to take a shot at updating the OSM for some of New
Brunswick, which presently does not have very much mapping compiled. The
plan I think I'd like to follow is:
1. Select an NTS 1:50 000
Hi,
I have created a python version of canvec-to-osm. It does basically the
same as Sam's batch files. With it, 1 or 16 tiles are downloaded,
converted, and put in a ZIP file.
The script can be found here:
http://www.steggink.org/osm/Canvec/Canvec-to-osm_v0.1.zip
Requirements:
- Python 2.6
Sam Vekemans wrote:
Im not making a new script, the folks who understand python, are
making a script that can solve the 'duplicate intersecting nodes' and
'inner/outer relation' problem.
(Yes you might have fixed it, but i've reached the crux of my
technical ability)
Sure, they can use
Hi Ian,
Ian Dees wrote:
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org
mailto:stegg...@steggink.org wrote:
Sam, can you give some additional clarification what your
intentions are? I'm afraid I'm not following them well. When you
mentioning removing
Ian Dees wrote:
I normally upload my NHD changesets with 40k-50k changes in each
upload without problem. It takes an hour or so to apply (depending
on server load), but it works without error.
What program are you using for the upload? Is it bulk-upload,
JOSM, or
Hi Sam,
I've just downloaded some CanVec data, and had a look at sheets 031I07
and -08. I wonder what you mean by uploading all sub-residential
files. I understand that the data is separated over multiple files,
because of certain limitations. In the residential OSM files I also see
no
of features without any tags.
Solution:
* shp-to-osm needs to be adjusted, so that the outer polygon will get
the tags, but the inner polygons will not.
* shp-to-osm should be called without the -t parameter.
Is this possible?
Frank
Frank Steggink wrote:
Hi Sam,
I've just downloaded some CanVec
Hi John,
I personally think it would be better to do the cleanup immediately
after the import, or possible during the import. Of course it is very
tedious to do so, and it will slow down the import, but the person who
is doing the import, knows best which roads were omitted. The goal is
not
are that
good, but at least they correspond to the areas in the raster file.)
Frank
[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2952729
Sam Vekemans wrote:
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org
mailto:stegg...@steggink.org wrote:
Hi,
I think to know
Hi list,
I just _knew_ it would happen. As soon as I would start the Geobase
import, some user would step up, and start adding data to the areas I'm
about to import. And this is exactly what happened. To my surprise I
discovered a whole lot of data southeast of Quebec City, in the
Hi Richard,
This approach makes for many more change sets and each change set is
likely to be a single object of some sort. They still have to break
these up further if the single relation is too big, but they aim for a
changeset of about 1,000 items total.
Too bad that the NTS tiles
Hi Sam,
I think I've done enough import for now. 9 1/4 sheet of data. The
1/4 sheet was a section near Quebec City (021L14) with a lot of
data and a lot of cleanup necessary.
When you say 'sheets' im assuming you mean NTS tiles right?
Yes, that's correct. In my parlance sheets
Frank Steggink wrote:
Hi,
Because it is not obvious to everyone what the extent of the NTS sheets
is, I've created a little service which converts them to lat/lon
coordinates. It is also possible to show them directly as a box in
OpenStreetMap. I'm not sure if a similar service exists
it for that tile you listed in there.
What area are you in?
Cheers,
Sam
Twitter: @Acrosscanada
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org
mailto:stegg...@steggink.org wrote:
Frank Steggink wrote:
Hi
Richard Weait wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Frank Stegginkstegg...@steggink.org wrote:
Hi,
Because it is not obvious to everyone what the extent of the NTS sheets
is, I've created a little service which converts them to lat/lon
coordinates. It is also possible to show them
Hi Richard, Sam, Steve,
Thanks for your feedback. I'll continue using PostGIS (good for my own skills
as
well), and look at the other suggestions you've made. I'll also leave the NIDs
on the data which I will eventually upload. They don't hurt, although there is
the theoretical possibility
Hi,
I've sent below mail to Michel, who I met at the Sherbrooke mapping party last
year, but I presume he's quite busy, so I'm posting it here.
I haven't really been following the talk-ca mailing list, but I would like to
give it a try. I don't know yet how much time and energy I'm willing to
Hi Steve,
Thanks for your response.
Yes the wiki needs a cleanup, I've been hoping someone else would do it
since that doesn't seem to be happening I will try to find sometime soon
to delete all obsolete information from the wiki pages.
I'll try to do some cleanup, once I have a better
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