Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-27 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 11:45, john whelan wrote: > ... > About that time an American mapper, Nate, who was living in Toronto ... Sorry, one more thing. Nate was an active editor in Toronto at the time of the initial import conflict/objection and has remained so as regularly as we can ask of any

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-27 Thread John Whelan
Both your input and Nate's are useful in that at least they confirm my thoughts that there is little chance of moving forward on a Canada wide basis. Hopefully the Toronto mappers can sort something out for Toronto and the rest will follow in time. As a Toronto mapper, I'm happy to load

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-27 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 20:43, John Whelan wrote: > The Stat Can data comes directly from the municipalities so each municipality > will have a different quality of data. The Microsoft and NR Can data maybe > more consistent. Statcan could improve the data and make it more consistent. On this

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-27 Thread John Whelan
The Stat Can data comes directly from the municipalities so each municipality will have a different quality of data.  The Microsoft and NR Can data maybe more consistent. Both your input and Nate's are useful in that at least they confirm my thoughts that there is little chance of moving

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-27 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 11:45, john whelan wrote: > I do know that a number of departments and agencies would like to use > buildings and although they can use the open data sources using OSM would be > more convenient. Then you can encourage these agencies to urge Statcan to improve the

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-27 Thread John Whelan
I'll try to sum up my understanding. Currently your view is the existing import plan for Canada building imports does not meet the import guidelines and cannot be amended to meet them.  I was hoping that something might have happened in the last six months on the preprocessing of data side

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-27 Thread Nate Wessel
John, You are once again purposely mischaracterizing my position on this and I do not appreciate it one bit. Your import did not follow the import guidelines and was not approved by the broader community. It was not sent out to the mailing list, it was barely documented, it was not posted on

[Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-27 Thread john whelan
>From memory we have imported Ottawa's buildings under the correct license (Stat Can so the federal government's open data license) and the quality was deemed acceptable by the local mappers. Then we opened up a second import plan to import buildings and a fair number were imported. This

Re: [Talk-ca] Statut Projet StatCan - Était - Présentation à SotM2019 sur l'analyse des bâtiments

2019-09-27 Thread Pierre Béland via Talk-ca
Bonjour John, De mon côté je n'ai pas encore complété le travail pour réaliser une fonction PostGIS pour orthogonaliser les bâtiments.  Voici cependant une solution possible pour corrger les angles à partir de JOSM pour les bâtiments déja importés tel que décrit dans le ticket JOSM