Re: [Talk-ca] Proposal to tag Yonge Street in Toronto and York Region as Primary

2020-07-16 Thread Justin Tracey
In Canada, highway=primary is typically used for what I would call "highway-like" roads.[0] IMHO, Yonge is a "major" road, but has too many cross streets to be really considered highway-like, at least for most of its length. You can look at some of the other highway=primary roads in the area to

Re: [Talk-ca] WikiProject Canada Post - franchise assessment

2020-06-16 Thread Justin Tracey
On 2020-06-16 10:16 a.m., john whelan wrote: > > Canada Post is part of federal government so there is some sort of > commitment to Open Data floating around under the Federal government's > open data initiative. > > As referenced in another emails on this thread, Canada Post is operated as a

Re: [Talk-ca] WikiProject Canada Post - franchise assessment

2020-06-16 Thread Justin Tracey
Is it legal to import that data from the Canada Post site? - Justin On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:04 AM David Nelson via Talk-ca < talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > I have just finished assessing which post offices in Canada among those we > have not yet added to OSM are franchises, and which of

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

2020-04-03 Thread Justin Tracey
> On Apr 3, 2020, at 11:11, Justin Tracey wrote: > > iD leaves all access tags undefined for sidewalks by default, what you're > seeing are the *implied* values (specifically, highway=footway implies > motor_vehicle=no, but does not make any implication about bicycle=*; scroll

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

2020-04-03 Thread Justin Tracey
iD leaves all access tags undefined for sidewalks by default, what you're seeing are the *implied* values (specifically, highway=footway implies motor_vehicle=no, but does not make any implication about bicycle=*; scroll down to the raw tags and you'll see both are left undefined). The reason

Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

2019-10-03 Thread Justin Tracey
In the US, ZIP Codes (the US postal code equivalent) are frequently emphasized to not correspond to geographic locations, but sets of addresses. Of course they frequently cluster according to geography (and the prefixes are indeed assigned to states and regions within the state), and are often