Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap as a data source for visually impaired people

2017-02-06 Thread john whelan
Comment one Overpassis not infallible. Someone did an Overpassquery to find the number of streets with a French name in Ottawa they came back with a dozen. I downloaded the dump and found 1,600+. https://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html and use osmconvert64 to manipulate it. There is some wo

[Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap as a data source for visually impaired people

2017-02-06 Thread Dave Dowding
Hi, I'm studying Geographic Information Systems and am doing a dissertation on whether OSM data is a good data sources for visually impaired people. The evaluation of different geographic data sources for visually impaired people seems to be under researched, though very important for those who nee