Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-04-30 Thread Gregory
The problem with the GIS guy is that he told me he wanted to say yes but he can't specifically agree to a certain license. I don't want him to play dumb. The Records Manager has been doing a great job of ignoring me. Even when I went to his office he sneaked out of the window while I waited in

Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-04-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: I've been taught by OSM to be doubly sure on the license of data, and it probably differs from usual use because: it's out of academia; it can be used commercially; the attribution to UBC PlantOps is not always visual.

Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-04-07 Thread Gregory
I finally got some contact details from my geography teacher that seem like they might be the place to go. At some point I'll be documenting stuff in the wiki, so I started now: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia:Vancouver/UBC

Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-03-30 Thread Adam Dunn
Many bike racks are also under cover (Buchanan and Dempster come to mind), so good luck spotting them on Yahoo. I can also attest to the fact that Yahoo is not very well orthorectified for UBC, especially in the theology department and Gage towers. I think Fairview was okay though... I don't see

Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-03-29 Thread Corey Burger
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: To imports and talk-ca mailing list, As you may know, I'm in Canada until May studying at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver. I'm doing one class in GIS and this week the teacher just introduced us to

Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-03-29 Thread Gregory
On 29 March 2010 10:37, Corey Burger corey.bur...@gmail.com wrote: However, who holds copyright on the data? They need to sign off on importing it into OSM if it isn't licensed under fairly liberal terms. If you don't know then it is likely all rights reserved. Plant Ops may not have the

Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-03-29 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi Corey, It sounds like a competion. :-) I think we can make Vancouver Island better than the lower mainland. I'm still planning a mapping party day @Sidney. April 7th. I'll invite people the manual way. :) Cheers, Sam On 3/29/10, Corey Burger corey.bur...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26,

Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-03-29 Thread Corey Burger
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 29 March 2010 10:37, Corey Burger corey.bur...@gmail.com wrote: However, who holds copyright on the data? They need to sign off on importing it into OSM if it isn't licensed under fairly liberal terms. If you

Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-03-29 Thread Gregory
For information, this is the reply I got from my lecturer at the end of last week: Hi Gregory I check with a few people and try to find the correct contact. There are a few members that are into the GIS while another sector is still 'hugging' their databases. I'll report early next week. Cheers

Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-03-29 Thread Corey Burger
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:00 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Corey Burger corey.bur...@gmail.com wrote: Bicycle racks would certainly be a welcome addition. I look at the number around UVic and shudder. However, who holds copyright on the data? They

Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-03-29 Thread Russell
Unfortunately the yahoo imagery in Vancouver isn't good enough to see bike racks anyways :( The yahoo imagery at UBC is distorted also (wavy) on part of the campus. Regardless, if we want to make a demo area at UBC with very high detail mapping, then I would like to help as I am a student out

[Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-03-26 Thread Gregory
To imports and talk-ca mailing list, As you may know, I'm in Canada until May studying at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver. I'm doing one class in GIS and this week the teacher just introduced us to some data on the geography computers we can use for our project. It is from