Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread Heather Leson
Hello as mentioned under separate cover, Id like to connect one point of contact who will try to heto Thanks for being so detailed Heather On 10 May 2016 03:22, "James" wrote: > Seems the only way to contact them is via phone...and I doubt those lines > will be

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread Heather Leson
Morning from Doha. As mentioned previously there are emergency managers trying to get imagery. This is their first time considering digital volunteers. If I can have one Canadian volunteer as a point of contact I can hand off the discussion. Note: they would really love it if it was someone from

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread Pierre Béland
https://twitter.com/rmwoodbuffalohttps://twitter.com/RedCrossAB https://twitter.com/redcrosscanada   Pierre De : Pierre Béland À : James ; Bernie Connors Cc : Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Envoyé

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread Pierre Béland
http://www.rmwb.ca/ContactUs/Contact-Directory.htm   Pierre De : James À : Bernie Connors Cc : Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Envoyé le : lundi 9 mai 2016 20h20 Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires Seems the

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
I doubt we could use this for validating as its creating a derived work and unless we have permission On May 9, 2016 8:20 PM, "Pierre Béland" wrote: > Couche Immeubles, cité de Wood Buffalo > josm tms[19]: >

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread Pierre Béland
Couche Immeubles, cité de Wood Buffalojosm tms[19]:http://gis-portal-api.elasticbeanstalk.com/arcgis/rest/services/basemaps/vectorBasemap/MapServer/tile/{zoom}/{y}/{x} On ne peut tracer à partir de cette couche à moins d'obtenir l'autorisation de la municipalité. Mais cela permet de comparer

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread Bernie Connors
I believe the Wood Buffalo municipality has a buildings dataset. Can anyone get in touch with the municipal government to get the data?Bernie.

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread Pierre Béland
Je crois aussi qu'il serait mieux d'avoir divers projets. Cependant, il faut planifier avant d'ajouter de nouveaux projet et de demander aux bénévoles, de passer des heures à contribuer à de tels projets. Pour motiver les contributeurs OSM à participer et maintenir la participation, Il est

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread john whelan
I mean how do we decide a tile is mapped? Normally in HOT its when the list of things in the instructions are completed. " Also trace - Routes in the region - Polygons around the residential areas in areas around Fort McMurray - Isolated buildings outside urban places -

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
Bing imagery is better than mapbox in that region. For addressing do you mean building by building or CanVec interpolation? On May 9, 2016 5:11 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > Should we layer this ie one project to map the buildings, another to add > addresses, the processes

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread john whelan
Should we layer this ie one project to map the buildings, another to add addresses, the processes are quite different and at the moment its difficult to say a tile is done for buildings when the address info hasn't been added and that means mappers going over the same tiles multiple times. Are we

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread Kunce, Dale
If we can get good pre-event imagery and do the building by building assessment I don’t think we will need post-event imagery but I can be on the lookout for it. Dale — Dale Kunce | Senior Geospatial Engineer and GIS Team Lead | International Services | American Red Cross 2025 E Street NW,

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread Paul Norman
On 5/9/2016 12:43 PM, Kunce, Dale wrote: Bernie, I do see that the building footprints are in the esri basemap unfortunately this doesn’t actually help. The esri basemap data is just an tiled image and does not provide us with the vector data that we need to complete our work. I’m happy to

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread Kunce, Dale
Bernie, I do see that the building footprints are in the esri basemap unfortunately this doesn’t actually help. The esri basemap data is just an tiled image and does not provide us with the vector data that we need to complete our work. I’m happy to take the lead and coordinate the mapping. The

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread john whelan
Given that the US Red Cross are getting involved and have a need for buildings to be mapped so they can use their tool set is there any data sets we might be able to get hold of. I'm thinking of using the Treasury Broad gateway which means its licensed for OSM but TB are also working with the

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
Shouldn't be too long, operations team says the master DB is back up as of 2 hours ago Source: https://twitter.com/OSM_Tech On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Kunce, Dale wrote: > Ugh forgot about the Read Only. > > > — > *Dale Kunce* | Senior Geospatial Engineer and GIS

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread Kunce, Dale
Ugh forgot about the Read Only. — Dale Kunce | Senior Geospatial Engineer and GIS Team Lead | International Services | American Red Cross 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 Tel 202.303.4095 | Cell 510.842.7523 | Skype dkunce​ From: James >

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
It would definitely be possible, it's just as I've stated previously nothing can be done until OpenStreetMap maintenance has been completed (scheduled until tomorrow (GMT)) On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Kunce, Dale wrote: > Don’t worry about the Red Cross

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread Kunce, Dale
Don’t worry about the Red Cross coordination for now. I know them and can work with them directly them. Thanks again. — Dale Kunce | Senior Geospatial Engineer and GIS Team Lead | International Services | American Red Cross 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 Tel 202.303.4095 | Cell

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread Kunce, Dale
Quick question would it be possible to add that all buildings should be traced. This is crucial for the damage assessment. Thanks Dale — Dale Kunce | Senior Geospatial Engineer and GIS Team Lead | International Services | American Red Cross 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 Tel

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread John Marshall
Dale, I have ask the CDN Red Cross in Ottawa several times if they would like the CDN OSM community to help. Happy to help. Cheers John On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:16 PM, James wrote: > Hi Dale I'm not sure if you've been following this list previously, but > there was a

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread Kunce, Dale
Fantastic, I just joined the list today. Thanks Dale — Dale Kunce | Senior Geospatial Engineer and GIS Team Lead | International Services | American Red Cross 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 Tel 202.303.4095 | Cell 510.842.7523 | Skype dkunce​ From: James

[Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread Kunce, Dale
The American Red Cross is potentially sending some teams to do help the Canadian Canadian Red Cross with damage assessments in Ft. Mcmurtry and other places affected by the recent fires. As part of the assessment we are potentially going to use OpenMapKit to do a building by building

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
Hi Dale I'm not sure if you've been following this list previously, but there was a initiative started already within osm-canada I've created a HOT project here: http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/22 But right now OSM is in read only mode as there is a scheduled maintenance On May 9, 2016 12:12

Re: [Talk-ca] ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca

2016-05-09 Thread James
Seems to be back up for now: http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/OSM/pub/ On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Looks like with all the shuffling of products, we've finally lost our > /OSM/pub folder. Oh well. > > I guess that, since all the CanVEC data is now

Re: [Talk-ca] ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca

2016-05-09 Thread James
If you remember what François Paquette sent on this list you wouldnt have to send the email you just sent: The CanVec data in OSM format will not be available from Thursday May 5, 1:00 p.m. to Tuesday May 10, 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). The maintenance period may be modified, please refer to the