Re: [Talk-ca] Google Streetview

2010-03-11 Thread Andrew MacKinnon
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Robert Shand b...@shand.org.uk wrote: I would tend to agree with this, as I have spotted street view imagery having been doctored.  I used to live on a one-way street, and the imagery in Street View clearly showed the SV car travelling in the wrong direction on

Re: [Talk-ca] Google Streetview

2010-03-11 Thread Sam Vekemans
And while were extending the discussion... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image Using an image=* tag would help as when your out there photo-mapping you can share photos with this tag. :-) The page still needs to be fixed, as it might turn out that it only applies to 'points of interest'

[Talk-ca] Highways in Yukon

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Francois
Just wanted to gauge opinion before I change anything: I'm currently working on the Dempster highway with a tracklog I created in the summer, hoping to extend it further north into NWT. The road connecting to the Dempster in the south is the Klondike Highway. However, this paved 'highway' is

Re: [Talk-ca] Highways in Yukon

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Tim Francois sk1pp...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Just wanted to gauge opinion before I change anything: I'm currently working on the Dempster highway with a tracklog I created in the summer, hoping to extend it further north into NWT. The road connecting to the

Re: [Talk-ca] Streets with frontage roads...

2010-03-11 Thread Gregory
On 8 March 2010 12:18, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: What is the common ground on tagging these things? I would guess that all these roads would get named Grandin Road, as the houses are all addressed as Grandin Road. I was thinking that the 4 lane section get bumped to tertiary as it is

Re: [Talk-ca] Highways in Yukon

2010-03-11 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Tim Francois sk1pp...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I'm currently working on the Dempster highway with a tracklog I created in the summer, hoping to extend it further north into NWT. The road connecting to the Dempster in the south is the Klondike Highway. However, this

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: [gvcc-members] Google Goes Bike with Directions

2010-03-11 Thread Gregory
The routing on bikemap.net is just showing you routes that people have added. http://www.cyclestreets.net/ is only available for the UK, but actually does routing based on OSM data. It's amazing as it does any point to any point and gives you 3 routes (fastest/direct, scenic, and in between) and

Re: [Talk-ca] Highways in Yukon

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:30 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Tim Francois sk1pp...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I'm currently working on the Dempster highway with a tracklog I created in the summer, hoping to extend it further north into NWT. The road connecting

[Talk-ca] Fwd: Fwd: [gvcc-members] Google Goes Bike with Directions

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Weait
oops. To the lists, too. -- Forwarded message -- On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: The routing on bikemap.net is just showing you routes that people have added. http://www.cyclestreets.net/ is only available for the UK, but actually

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: [gvcc-members] Google Goes Bike with Directions

2010-03-11 Thread john whelan
The UK has publicly funded web sites that do routing. Could some one work on fed Canada or some such body working on the green angle? Thanks John On 11 March 2010 20:45, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: The routing on bikemap.net is just showing you routes that people have added.

Re: [Talk-ca] Highways in Yukon

2010-03-11 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: One has to think about how the final map is going to be displayed. Now that is a little close to tagging for the renderer. Yes, but I've been chastised about that statement before... we are not tagging incorrectly to