Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-06 Thread Laura O'Grady
There's a form [1] requesting this data set. Not sure if posting a request will help as we know this has been going on for years. You can get the Forward Sortation Areas in a boundary file [2], which can be exported from the db. I noticed the disclaimer, "This data includes information copied

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-06 Thread john whelan
On the clean up side I pulled in osmconvert64 ontario.osm -b=-76,45.0,-75.7,45.5 -o=ottawa1.osm so a small chunk of ottawa. JOSM validation gave 50 errors and 3,913 warnings. The ontario map was fairly recent like yesterday I think. The file is here: http://www.jatws.org/johnw/ottawa1.zip if

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-06 Thread john whelan
​I understand the current intent is data.gc.ca There is actually a lot of postcode data in Ottawa adhresses as it stands especially for commercial buildings. Don't hold your breath for Canada Post and postcodes. Some attributes they would like at the moment I can't see how a mapper would map

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-06 Thread Stewart C. Russell
Hi John - some great points here. > My understanding is currently he’s looking getting hold of the City of > Ottawa building outline data and making it available to OpenStreetMap > without the current license restriction. This would be wonderful. It would be ideal if the data could be placed on

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-06 Thread john whelan
I think the Stats Canada project is evolving as Bjenk understands a little more about what he’d like and what we can do. My understanding is currently he’s looking getting hold of the City of Ottawa building outline data and making it available to OpenStreetMap without the current license

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-06 Thread James
Yeah, that was when I wastracing buildings manually, Gatineau and Ottawa boundaries should maybe be combined into one project as there is duplication(overlap) due to how the task manager splits tiles into nice squares On Aug 5, 2016 11:50 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > On

Re: [Talk-ca] Sujet à discussion: relation multipolygone (natural:forest)

2016-08-06 Thread Begin Daniel
Bonjour Dega, Je ne suis pas certain de comprendre à quoi tu réfères lorsque tu parles d'un mode additif pour les zones de forêt (natural=wood). Dans l'exemple que tu donnes, il me semble que la forêt n'a simplement pas encore été captée !-) On peut voir le captage de la forêt comme un captage