Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

2015-06-28 Thread Andrew MacKinnon
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hello list — My name is Martijn van Exel, I am on the OSM US board and work at Telenav. I’ve written to this list a few times before, but this time I am doing so with my Telenav hat on. Perhaps you know that we have the

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

2015-06-20 Thread Steve Singer
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi Andrew, Thanks for elaborating on the CanVec / Geobase imports! This also raises new questions.. See below. On Jun 17, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com wrote: A lot of the data in Canada was imported from CanVec and

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

2015-06-19 Thread Daniel Begin
on the ground but not in OSM); - Some addresses data are wrong - then there are no roads associated to them Daniel -Original Message- From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] Sent: June-18-15 17:15 To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada On 6

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

2015-06-18 Thread Paul Norman
On 6/17/2015 1:12 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: * What is the imports history, particularly in relation to road network, POIs and addresses? (Beyond what’s in the import catalogue page on the wiki, if anything) CanVec, National Hydrographic Network (NHN), and National Road Network (NRN), all

[Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

2015-06-17 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hello list — My name is Martijn van Exel, I am on the OSM US board and work at Telenav. I’ve written to this list a few times before, but this time I am doing so with my Telenav hat on. Perhaps you know that we have the Scout apps (iOS, Android) which run on OSM data. (If you haven’t yet,

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

2015-06-17 Thread Martijn van Exel
Unrelated, but I noticed that talk-ca is not archived on Nabble yet - this makes it hard to share and follow a conversation as a non-subscriber. I don’t know what’s involved in adding this list or if anyone would object? Martijn On Jun 17, 2015, at 4:47 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

2015-06-17 Thread Andrew MacKinnon
See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec. CanVec data was converted to OSM format and is stored at http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/OSM/pub/, and is split into files based on the National Topographic System, and then data was imported in some parts of Canada by manually cutting and pasting data

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

2015-06-17 Thread Andrew MacKinnon
Also see Ordinance Survey Locator Musical Chairs http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OS_Locator_Musical_Chairs and http://ris.dev.openstreetmap.org/oslmusicalchairs/map for a comparison tool comparing UK Ordinance Survey data with OSM data, similar to the TIGER fixup tool. On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

2015-06-17 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi Andrew, Thanks for elaborating on the CanVec / Geobase imports! This also raises new questions.. See below. On Jun 17, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com wrote: A lot of the data in Canada was imported from CanVec and Geobase, some of it by me several years ago. The

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

2015-06-17 Thread Andrew MacKinnon
A lot of the data in Canada was imported from CanVec and Geobase, some of it by me several years ago. The imported data is pretty poor quality in many places. I haven't done much work on this recently, as imports have a bad reputation in OSM and I am mostly concerned with surveying. For example:

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

2015-06-17 Thread Andrew Lester
@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada A few things I can think of: On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:13 PM Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org mailto:m...@rtijn.org wrote: * Are there any Canada-specific mapping and tagging conventions? - There seems to be a strong consensus that what

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data quality in Canada

2015-06-17 Thread Harald Kliems
A few things I can think of: On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:13 PM Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: * Are there any Canada-specific mapping and tagging conventions? - There seems to be a strong consensus that what elsewhere would be highway=unclassified is highway=residential, no matter if the