Re: [Talk-ca] Saints in street names in Ontario

2019-03-19 Thread john whelan
Go back to Ottawa and from the discussion we had there in Ontario it is the municipality that is the authority. >From memory years ago when OSM was mapped by cyclists taking photos of street names what was on the sign post was deemed correct. Unfortunately locally one street had three different

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import

2019-03-19 Thread John Whelan
Bonne chance John Begin Daniel wrote on 2019-03-19 2:14 PM: I expect Pierre, Tim and others to send me any data they believe would be problematic. If I send them my own test dataset, it may not cover the cases they are interested in. J Daniel *From:*john whelan

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import

2019-03-19 Thread Begin Daniel
I expect Pierre, Tim and others to send me any data they believe would be problematic. If I send them my own test dataset, it may not cover the cases they are interested in. ☺ Daniel From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 13:32 To: Begin Daniel Cc:

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import

2019-03-19 Thread john whelan
It would make logical sense to preprocess all the data but then you end up with two sources. The Open Data original and the preprocessed data source. >From a logical point of view it would make sense to use the Microsoft data to fill in the gaps. So add it into the preprocessed data. Then you

Re: [Talk-ca] Defining a local mapper group

2019-03-19 Thread john whelan
This needs a bit of context. It relates to importing building outlines of which there are two Open Data sources available for Canada both have acceptable licenses. Traditionally mappers have concentrated on one aspect of mapping. I happen to like bus stops for example and bus shelters also

Re: [Talk-ca] Defining a local mapper group

2019-03-19 Thread Martijn van Exel
If you’re interested in forming local mapper groups based on actual contributions to OSM you are free to use the Meet Your Mapper tool I built a little while ago. You can draw a bounding box and retrieve a list of mappers who contributed there. It generates some basic stats such as number of

Re: [Talk-ca] Defining a local mapper group

2019-03-19 Thread Jonathan Brown
Ideally, a local mapper/group would be one that contributed data to an open digital map that can be verified and used to solve a problem (e.g., food security, fresh water, climate change, etc.). The local mapping group should be able to contribute data via satellite imagery, open data, and/or a

[Talk-ca] hebdoOSM Nº 451 2019-03-05-2019-03-11

2019-03-19 Thread theweekly . osm
Bonjour, Le résumé hebdomadaire n° 451 de l'actualité OpenStreetMap vient de paraître *en français*. Un condensé à retrouver sur : http://www.weeklyosm.eu/fr/archives/11622/ Bonne lecture ! Saviez-vous que vous pouvez vous aussi soumettre des messages pour la note hebdomadaire sans être