[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings - project with StatCan

2016-08-11 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello, Said simply, we are looking for the following: * Building type (residential, commercial, industrial, school, farm, etc.) * Building name * Address * Use (this is similar to type but I understand that there needs to be an attribute to capture stuff like

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping exit numbers and destinations in Canada

2016-08-11 Thread Kevin Farrugia
Yes - recently bootprint, andrewpmk, and I have been changing and correcting the name tags to destination in Ontario along the 400-Series highways. If you see a ramp/link that is named, it's fine to change it over to destination or correct a problem you find with it. On Aug 11, 2016 8:38 AM,

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping exit numbers and destinations in Canada

2016-08-11 Thread James
I think this wiki article covers how exits should be mapped: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Exit_Info On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Harald Kliems wrote: > Hi Manohar: > It is my understanding that including destinations in the name is an > artifact of people tagging for

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping exit numbers and destinations in Canada

2016-08-11 Thread Harald Kliems
Hi Manohar: It is my understanding that including destinations in the name is an artifact of people tagging for the renderer (and/or tagging destinations at a time before there was an established tagging scheme). If you search through the talk-ca archives, you should be able to find some

[Talk-ca] Mapping exit numbers and destinations in Canada

2016-08-11 Thread Manohar Erikipati
Hello everyone! Turn restriction sprint was met with an amazing response! We loved working with you all on adding turn-restrictions in Canada. We appreciate the timely help and suggestions we got which helped us add correct restrictions and to also maintain the quality of data we were adding on

[Talk-ca] weeklyOSM #316 08/02/2016-08/08/2016

2016-08-11 Thread weeklyteam
The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 316, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/7939/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM is brought to you by ...