Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2

2016-01-12 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 2016-01-12 02:37 PM, Mojgan Jadidi wrote: > > Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton, mostly in new subdivision areas. Our > Our conflation methods is based on an in-house algorithm of buffering left > and right sides of the street segments to detect the missing parts … Hi Mojgan - this is what

[Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data

2016-01-12 Thread Stewart C. Russell
Hey, We had a couple of folks from Metrolinx (the GTHA/Golden Horseshoe transit agency) at the Toronto Mappy Hour last night. Their Triplinx route planner — http://www.triplinx.ca/ — consumes OSM data for addresses. They want to find ways to work with the community to improve addressing in their

Re: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data

2016-01-12 Thread Adam Martin
Taking a look around the data in OSM for Toronto, it would appear that the address interpolations have been added via import from CanVec already, Pierre. Which prompts the question as to what, exactly, did the people from Metrolinx mean when they expressed concern about "getting better address

Re: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data

2016-01-12 Thread john whelan
The issue has come up in Ottawa as well, some street names or incorrect, the city has been correcting them but there are some hundred to be changed when I spoke to the person at the city. CANVEC address import seems often to have been done by different people in different ways and in Ottawa many

Re: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data

2016-01-12 Thread Kevin Farrugia
Afternoon everyone, Metrolinx is looking at adding missing address ranges - either those that were never added in or those that are in new neighbourhoods.  I believe they're also looking for problems where the street name on the highway doesn't match the address range street name due to

Re: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data

2016-01-12 Thread Pierre Choffet
Le 12/01/2016 12:50, Adam Martin a écrit : > Taking a look around the data in OSM for Toronto, it would appear that > the address interpolations have been added via import from CanVec > already, Pierre. Indeed. I checked before sending my email, but I zoomed in a place where there is no CanVec

Re: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data

2016-01-12 Thread James
If you need a HOT task manager. I am currently hosting it on tasks.osmcanada.ca. If you want to become a project manager just send me an email after you've logged in, I can set you as one. On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:53 PM, john whelan wrote: > The issue has come up in

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2

2016-01-12 Thread Mojgan Jadidi
mprove > addressing in their service area. They're mostly concerned about getting > better address ranges than individual points. > > I don't know what their next steps are, but they seem to be approaching > the community in a different and slightly better way than most agencies. > >

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2

2016-01-12 Thread Andrew MacKinnon
On Jan 12, 2016 2:39 PM, "Mojgan Jadidi" wrote: > > Hi all, > > Thanks Stewart for initiating this discussion, I am one of the folks working on OSM data at Metrolinx. We are currently working on OSM data of our service area to improve the address range information for

Re: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data

2016-01-12 Thread Pierre Choffet
Hello, I'm not sure this message will help, but just in case: here in Montreal, we have imported the address layer from CanVec data which includes the interpolations. Import is never trivial, but given your needs and the improvement of the service for all users it's probably a good idea to