[Talk-ca] Accident map of Montreal - using OSM data + MapBox

2013-07-29 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just saw this today: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/road-safety/map/index.html There are some interesting details in the methodology section. F. - -- Fabián Rodríguez http://openstreetmap.magicfab.ca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [Talk-ca] Accident map of Montreal - using OSM data + MapBox

2013-07-29 Thread Harald Kliems
Side note: Looks like the Mapbox renderer uses an algorithm that shortens common parts of street names, like Boulevard to Blvd or Crescent to Cr. Which in Montreal leads to funny things like Rue Cr and The Blvd... Harald. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Fabian Rodriguez magic...@member.fsf.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Accident map of Montreal - using OSM data + MapBox

2013-07-29 Thread Bruno Remy
Yes! A significative exemple of use OSM data in datajournalism! Good point! By the way, thanks to Diane M. (@carnetsDM) having published the news on twitter ;-) Le 2013-07-29 19:13, Fabian Rodriguez magic...@member.fsf.org a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just saw this