Re: [Talk-ca] OSM CanVec.

2010-06-04 Thread john whelan
I thought the whole idea of importing was to just automate loading data. Then it can be cleaned up on the map. If you are suggesting manual intervention by the importer by checking against satellite and other images aren't you defeating the purpose? Cheerio John Looks good, much better than

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM CanVec.

2010-06-04 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:39 AM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: I thought the whole idea of importing was to just automate loading data. Then it can be cleaned up on the map. If you are suggesting manual intervention by the importer by checking against satellite and other images

[Talk-ca] franch / english names

2010-06-04 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi Daniel, Ok here's one. For the named features in Quebec, is french used as the primary language? I think there is a separate dataset in some cases for the Franch language version. I know that for the National Protected areas file, Yan Morin used the different rules.txt to get french 1st.

[Talk-ca] Gas Pipeline with 'type'

2010-06-04 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Just found another one, Im just fixing yup the wiki chart, and see that 118001* Way PipelineNatural gas, aboveground man_made=pipeline; type=gas Where it should be pipeline:type=gas http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec:_Energy_%28EN%29

[Talk-ca] Geobase vs. Yahoo...

2010-06-04 Thread Tyler Gunn
I was looking around winnipeg's downtown (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.89162lon=-97.14226zoom=16layers=B000FTF) and noticed that the street grids don't align all too well to what is in Geobase. It looks like the original outline of the street grid was done as a tracing from Yahoo.

Re: [Talk-ca] Gas Pipeline with 'type'

2010-06-04 Thread Gregory
note=* isn't a standard tag! It's based to avoid using that, as the key used for a wide range of things and for writing human-readable comments. On 4 June 2010 13:55, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Just found another one, Im just fixing yup the wiki chart, and see that

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping Private Roads?

2010-06-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Colin McGregor colin.mc...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... wow, the attribution really got munged on this one. ] Still, the idea of touching base with his superior in the company before making the trip seems like a good idea to me. I'm with Gregory on this one. Don't

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping Private Roads?

2010-06-04 Thread Colin McGregor
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Colin McGregor colin.mc...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... wow, the attribution really got munged on this one.  ] Still, the idea of touching base with his superior in the company before making the

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping Private Roads?

2010-06-04 Thread Brent Fraser
My friend is very comfortable traveling around the property. I'm not so comfortable with his offer to take me around the property (he has an employee ID, I don't). The airspace overhead is not restricted (at least not any more than non-company property nearby), so the road grid information