Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-05 Thread John Whelan
Sounds good to me.  At least we have raised the issue and discussed it. Cheerio John James wrote on 2018-11-05 3:17 PM: As "Frederick Ramm" would say having external IDs is pointless when you can do a spatial join to see what is there and what is not On Nov. 5, 2018 3:05 p.m., "John Whelan"

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-05 Thread James
As "Frederick Ramm" would say having external IDs is pointless when you can do a spatial join to see what is there and what is not On Nov. 5, 2018 3:05 p.m., "John Whelan" wrote: Something that has come up in the Netherlands is they did an import then try to update the buildings once a month.

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-05 Thread John Whelan
Something that has come up in the Netherlands is they did an import then try to update the buildings once a month.  By having some sort of id tag on the building their feeling is it makes it much easier to pick out new buildings. On the technical side would we have such an id on the building

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-04 Thread John Marshall
Great idea John John On Sun, Nov 4, 2018, 16:48 john whelan I've started the process off by an introductory post to the import mailing > list and we are working on a wiki page which will be based on the Stat > Canada City of Ottawa import wiki page. > > Cheerio John > > On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, 7:34

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-04 Thread john whelan
I've started the process off by an introductory post to the import mailing list and we are working on a wiki page which will be based on the Stat Canada City of Ottawa import wiki page. Cheerio John On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, 7:34 pm James if anyone needs a TM or micro data service, I'm available for

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread James
if anyone needs a TM or micro data service, I'm available for this On Fri., Nov. 2, 2018, 7:32 p.m. John Whelan This approach seems very sensible however Pierre has raised the issue of > poorly mapped buildings and we are aware that some were mapped in a > mapathon environment so whilst Ottawa

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread John Whelan
This approach seems very sensible however Pierre has raised the issue of poorly mapped buildings and we are aware that some were mapped in a mapathon environment so whilst Ottawa used a"leave existing buildings alone" approach is this an area where some judgement should be used?  and yes I am

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread Matthew Darwin
Of course. Could use the ottawa import approach:  "leave existing buildings alone". Matthew Darwin matt...@mdarwin.ca http://www.mdarwin.ca On 2018-11-02 7:03 p.m., OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: On Nov 2, 2018, at 3:58 PM, John Whelan wrote: So to paraphrase your reply. A centralised import

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread Matthew Darwin
I think we should identify who would like to be involved in import for each municipality.  (on a wiki page). On the page, identify roles, like: * coordinator * import data preparation * QA * import execution * data enrichment (commercial, residential, etc... tagging) * etc.. Then we

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
On Nov 2, 2018, at 3:58 PM, John Whelan wrote: > So to paraphrase your reply. A centralised import plan in the wiki which > says the data is approved for import and should be tackled in chunks of some > sort of region since we are a decentralized organization. Which I think is > similar to

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread John Whelan
So to paraphrase your reply.  A centralised import plan in the wiki which says the data is approved for import and should be tackled in chunks of some sort of region since we are a decentralized organization.  Which I think is similar to the way Task Manager works.  The project is broken

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
On Nov 2, 2018, at 3:35 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > La rédaction d' une page wiki pour l'ensemble du Canada peut répondre aux > exigences du groupe Import de OSM. Mais l'organisation doit être > décentralisée. Je conviens qu'il est plus facile de rédiger un "plan d'importation" unique pour

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread Pierre Béland
Pour le Québec, je retrouve les données de plusieurs municipalitésMontréal, Longueuil, Repentigny, Shawinigan, Québec et Rimouski. Première observation rapide, aussi, elles sont de bonne qualité et proviennent je suppose des cadastres des municipalités. En milieu urbain, cela facilite beaucoup

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread John Whelan
/modified thousands of them (Canvec buildings) and I would not like to see all of them coming back. Daniel *From:*James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, November 2, 2018 16:07 *To:* john whelan *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread John Whelan
I know the City of Kingston are very interested in the project but they aren't the ones who can make the decision. Cheerio John James wrote on 2018-11-02 4:07 PM: From my initial glance at the data...seems pretty good and accurate(again I didn't check all the cities nor do I expect them all

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread James
:07 > *To:* john whelan > *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do > we wish to import it? > > > > From my initial glance at the data...seems pretty good and accurate(again > I didn't check all the cities

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread Begin Daniel
From: James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 2, 2018 16:07 To: john whelan Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it? From my initial glance at the data...seems pretty good and accurate(again I didn't

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread James
>From my initial glance at the data...seems pretty good and accurate(again I didn't check all the cities nor do I expect them all to be having same level of accuracy) The two I've been eye balling are Kingston and Rimouski which seem to be very accurate at first assessment. If we do want to