Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Robert Shand
Hello everyone, I've been looking in the PEI address details lately. In July 2009 Peter Rukavina contacted the provincial Government to enquire about the copyright status of the PEI civic address data and to see if they would be willing to open the data up for inclusion into OSM.

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread steggink
Hi Bob, Since there was never an agreement from the government of PEI, the best thing would be to remove the data from OSM asap, even though it looks pretty cool. Making a legally unencumbered geospatial dataset is the main goal of OSM, and not just generating pretty maps. Instead of

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Hi folks, The next PEI release from GeoBase/NRN will contain civic address range data. I know this is not as detailled as what is actually available in Osm but if you decide to remove it you will have an alternative soon. Daniel -Original Message- From:

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Sam Vekemans
Thanks Bob for going over the history of it. Perhaps noting down the changetset ID's and noting it on the PEI wiki page Since the origional upload was done on probably a few changesets. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2689623 http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/marse020/edits

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Robert Shand b...@shand.org.uk wrote: Hello everyone, I've been looking in the PEI address details lately [ ... ] Taking all of the above into account, I propose to the community that 1) Plenty of cool screenshots of the current OSM map are taken showing the

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Robert Shand b...@shand.org.uk wrote: Peter is well aware of the issues, - and suggested the removal to Michel (who was the original uploader) when he became aware of the upload. I'll work on getting the current data removed this weekend. I'm working on

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Robert Shand
On 2010-02-11, at 10:26 AM, Sam Vekemans wrote: #2600075 September 23, 2009 21:57Kings County Civic Addresses (http://www.gov.pe.ca/civicaddress/download/index.php3) #2691911 September 30, 2009 22:18Prince County Civic Addresses

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Robert Shand b...@shand.org.uk wrote: On 2010-02-11, at 10:26 AM, Sam Vekemans wrote: I also like Franks idea of hosting tiles rendered, so an example can be shown. (and Daniel just mentioned that the address range data will be available) Richard is

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Robert Shand
On 2010-02-11, at 11:18 AM, Richard Weait wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Robert Shand b...@shand.org.uk wrote: On 2010-02-11, at 10:26 AM, Sam Vekemans wrote: I also like Franks idea of hosting tiles rendered, so an example can be shown. (and Daniel just mentioned that the

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries of Québec

2010-02-11 Thread Nicolas Gignac
Bonjour, I sent your comments to the person (managing the Administrative boundaries) I know on how to contribute their datasets to OSM. After talking to him, I was woundering if a WMS connection of their datasets can be used and integrated directly in openstreetmap.ca as context layer (if they

Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca : français/québ écois...

2010-02-11 Thread Yves Moisan
Le jeudi 11 février 2010 à 13:24 -0500, Nicolas Gignac a écrit : Bonjour, Comme le site OpenStreetMap.ca n'est pas traduit en français, je crois que l'on devrait traduire le tout le plus tôt possible si on veut susciter le même intérêt openstreetmap pour les francophones du Canada ? Ça va

Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca : français/québ écois...

2010-02-11 Thread Corey Burger
2010/2/11 Nicolas Gignac gignac...@gmail.com: Bonjour, Comme le site OpenStreetMap.ca n'est pas traduit en français, je crois que l'on devrait traduire le tout le plus tôt possible si on veut susciter le même intérêt openstreetmap pour les francophones du Canada ? Car celui OpenStreetMap.fr

Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca : français/québ écois...

2010-02-11 Thread john whelan
At the moment OSM Canada has fewer resources available than is desirable. The problem with technical translations is how do you deal with updates? And in the case of French much of the work has already been done. May I suggest you talk nicely to openstreetmap.fr and add on a few Canada specific

Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca : français/québ écois...

2010-02-11 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, We can certainly put up a loose-translation (of the Canada wiki) and just put a header stating that the text is a 'loose translation: please fix if you can'. You are also free to reply to any message in french :) - IMO It just means that there will be a slight delay as we switch on google