Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-05 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Really good idea! Daniel -Original Message- From: Steve Singer [mailto:ssinger...@sympatico.ca] Sent: 4 décembre 2011 09:23 To: Connors, Bernie (SNB) Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Connors, Bernie (SNB) wrote: Richard

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-05 Thread Frank Steggink
On 4-12-2011 15:22, Steve Singer wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Connors, Bernie (SNB) wrote: Richard, Do you have a link to Import Guidelines that are specific to Canvec data? I think http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec needs to have some specific guidelines for canvec imports. In

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-05 Thread Daniel Begin
data. Best regards, Daniel -Original Message- From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com] Sent: December-02-11 16:07 To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: Richard

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-05 Thread Pierre Béland
We have to accept that OSM it is not a static project. For those discoverers that want to start from a blank sheet, there are still so many thematics to look for, and see how we can bring the information in OSM, how we can render it. For me, what it is interesting in OSM, it is all the space

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-04 Thread Steve Singer
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Connors, Bernie (SNB) wrote: Richard, Do you have a link to Import Guidelines that are specific to Canvec data? I think http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec needs to have some specific guidelines for canvec imports. In particular 1. A caution to avoid importing

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-03 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 11-12-03 10:18 , Gerald A wrote: I think there might have been a misread here -- I don't believe Richard was saying that we should only _use_ aerials Nor did I mean that. If you're doing a foot and GPS survey of somewhere, and there's nothing on OSM, and there's no useful aerials or other

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-03 Thread john whelan
I to have reservations about some Bing image imports. I helped a twelve year old enter a footway, we carefully made a GPS trace, checked the features page and decided it was a footway not a path, added it JOSM and uploaded both the GPS trace and the footway under my name. Patrick was very proud

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-03 Thread Pierre Béland
Having a similar problem recently, I used the option to send the edit by smaller chunks. Pierre Béland De : john whelan Date/heure : 2011-12-03 12:20:56 A : Stewart C. Russell Cc : Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Sujet : Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints I to have reservations about some

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-03 Thread Harald Kliems
, December 02, 2011 4:07 PM To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: Richard, Do you have a link to Import Guidelines that are specific to Canvec data? Sure. All imports should comply

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-02 Thread Connors, Bernie (SNB)
Richard, Do you have a link to Import Guidelines that are specific to Canvec data? Bernie. -- Bernie Connors, P.Eng Service New Brunswick (506) 444-2077 45°56'25.21N, 66°38'53.65W www.snb.ca/geonb/ -Original Message- From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com] Sent:

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: Richard,        Do you have a link to Import Guidelines that are specific to Canvec data? Sure. All imports should comply with the OSM import guidelines. My preference is that we do not import at all. We

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-02 Thread Samuel Dyck
I /think/ I'm responsible for that big error in Hudson Bay. I've fixed it, but can't quite figure out how two small mistakes caused that big glitch. Perhaps the real problem is that the coastlines are updated only a few times a year, I fixed the problem as soon as I saw it, and yet it will

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-02 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 11-12-02 16:07 , Richard Weait wrote: So let's start treating external like we treat aerial imagery. Let's don't, and say we did. For much of Canada, aerials aren't useful. Look at, say, Elliot Lake: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.3846lon=-82.6852zoom=13layers=M - aerials don't