[Talk-ca] Import of NRN 092H04

2009-09-15 Thread Adam Dunn
(excluded) http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mdmdznydhdz (standalone) It covers the area http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-122minlat=49maxlon=-121.5maxlat=49.25box=yes Adam Dunn ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

[Talk-ca] CanVec Questions

2009-09-28 Thread Adam Dunn
I'm working through CanVec for my home area (092H04), and the pipeline feature from the CanVec import uses the tags k=pipeline:type v=natural_gas|oil, whereas the preferred OSM tag is to use k=type v=natural_gas|oil [ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dpipeline] Also, I've noticed

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Questions

2009-09-29 Thread Adam Dunn
I guess the important use case here is being able to create diff files between versions of CanVec import (how often does CanVec get updated?). I think it would be useful to include the canvec2osm version in the changeset tags, which I will start doing, but would it also be useful to include the

Re: [Talk-ca] Correcting Geobase_import_2009

2009-10-25 Thread Adam Dunn
In JOSM, another way to quickly add on to a way like that is to use the select tool to select the way you will be adding on to, holding the shift (or control) key, selecting the last node in the way, then use the draw (add) tool to continue drawing the way. By default, in JOSM, if you have a node

[Talk-ca] Anybody know who/what vreimer is?

2009-10-29 Thread Adam Dunn
In my hometown of Chilliwack, there's a new overpass/section of road opening tomorrow. It's been open to pedestrians for the past week, so I've already collected gps tracks of it, and added as construction. Tonight I went to remove the construction tag, and see that vreimer messed up the geometry

Re: [Talk-ca] NTS 1/10,000 Tile Proposal

2009-11-18 Thread Adam Dunn
) Neighbours are L,M,N,Q,S,V,W,X(I have no magic to do that!) - Is it going to work with Canvec as well? Cheers, Daniel -- *From:* talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto: talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org] *On Behalf Of *Adam Dunn *Sent:* 18

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM

2009-12-10 Thread Adam Dunn
In addition to what Frank said, I would also like to point out that sac_scale [1] can be useful for hiking trails. If you happen to be into mountain biking, the group of mtb: tags are also useful [2]. I'm also in favour of using the smoothness tag [3] for forestry/4x4 roads, though there is debate

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM

2009-12-10 Thread Adam Dunn
type it was), then don't worry about it - someone else can do it. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:incline Adam On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: In addition to what Frank said, I

[Talk-ca] Help Import Vancouver!

2009-12-14 Thread Adam Dunn
While I am still working on importing 092G06 (North Vancouver, Downtown Vancouver, Kitsilano), I've made OSM files out of the NRN dataset for 092G03 (Richmond, Ladner, Tsawwassen). If there are any lurkers reading the mailing list or other people who live in Vancouver but haven't gotten the NRN

Re: [Talk-ca] Olympic Lane / Voie Olympique

2009-12-16 Thread Adam Dunn
For those wondering what this is about, Vancouver is designating certain traffic lanes for official Olympic vehicles (public transit buses, athlete transportation, media transportation, etc). Other lanes on the same street are to remain open for public use. See [

[Talk-ca] NRN 092G06 Import Complete

2010-01-20 Thread Adam Dunn
This is to announce the completion of NRN import for 092G06, which covers Bowen Island, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, and Downtown Vancouver. Areas that are partially included are Point Grey/Kitsilano north of King Edward Avenue, and East Vancouver west of Willingdon Avenue. See the bounding

[Talk-ca] Olympic Road Closures

2010-02-12 Thread Adam Dunn
I've added the road closures due to venue security zones for the olympics. You can see the two changesets in http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3853294 and http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3859377 Source for this was

[Talk-ca] 092G03 NRN Import Complete

2010-02-12 Thread Adam Dunn
Well, I've just finished up the airport area, which makes 092G03 finished. This also means that the entirety of Vancouver, the GVRD, and surrounding suburbs are all done the import (092G01, 092G02, 092G03, 092G06, 092G07). I covered the western half and Michael Barabanov covered the eastern half.

[Talk-ca] Tiger positioning not quite correct?

2010-02-19 Thread Adam Dunn
Working on NRN import on BC/Alaska border, in the town of Stewart, and it looks like there is a mismatch in positions between TIGER and NRN. Take a look at Highway 37A as it crosses the border in [1]. See that there is no road to connect to in Alaska. Now take a look at how Google maps has it in

[Talk-ca] 103 NRN Import Complete

2010-02-20 Thread Adam Dunn
Just finished up import of NRN tile 103. This includes Kitimat, Terrace, the aforementioned Stewart, Prince Rupert, and the Queen Charlotte Islands/Haida Gwaii (rename will happen mid-2010). Bounding box is: http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?minlat=52minlon=-136maxlat=56maxlon=-128box=yes

[Talk-ca] NRN 104 Import Complete

2010-02-25 Thread Adam Dunn
NRN of tile 104 is done import. Includes Dease Lake, Centreville, Telegraph Creek, Cassiar Highway, Klondike Highway and bits of Alaska Highway. Bounding box is http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?minlat=56minlon=-136maxlat=60maxlon=-128box=yes NRN full raw osm files are in Mediafire folder

Re: [Talk-ca] More Google Copying

2010-02-26 Thread Adam Dunn
-0800, Adam Dunn wrote: The NRN site confirms that names are not available in Manitoba (NRN for that province is on version 3) [1]. Sam, maybe you should send a nice email explaining that a blank map is better than an illegal one. This person has made edits to my hometown that I basically

Re: [Talk-ca] More Google Copying

2010-02-26 Thread Adam Dunn
, looks like Google. Based on Williams/Larch, looks like Google. In some places, position is off, other places it's fine. It looks like he actually skipped a major road because of this position confusion (it wouldn't fit in where it should). Adam On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Adam Dunn dunna

Re: [Talk-ca] What Google Copying?

2010-02-28 Thread Adam Dunn
Found another example near Valemount, BC, where NRN has a road called Blackman Road (east of a certain road) and Lheureux (west of certain road). Bing has called the road Chevreux. vreimer got it correct, meaning he's not copying Bing either. It's all so mysterious Adam On Sun, Feb 28, 2010

Re: [Talk-ca] What Google Copying?

2010-02-28 Thread Adam Dunn
I've been looking at StatCan's GeoSearch 2006 map [

Re: [Talk-ca] vreimer again

2010-03-06 Thread Adam Dunn
I think it should be pointed out that vreimer hasn't made any edits since the blocking, and this buggering up was done beforehand (Feb 13, 2010 to be exact). I just think it's worth noting that this Lesser Slave Lake issue is not about vreimer continuing to make poor editing decisions post-block.

[Talk-ca] Removing old towns/many tags stripped from town locations

2010-03-08 Thread Adam Dunn
I'm not too familiar with the GEOnet Names Database [1], and it's use in OSM and such, but I did notice something rather odd, where one place in Yoho National Park (BC) [2] had a key/value pair of key=Does Not Exist. Could this be because the town no longer exists (since GEOnet retains obsolete

Re: [Talk-ca] WMS Layer for canvec data / toporama

2010-03-10 Thread Adam Dunn
Thanks for showing me this. You have effectively octupled the amount of work I have to do. :( Seriously, the map will be so awesome after the CanVec import. Adam On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: No worries, thats what is great about leveraging

Re: [Talk-ca] call for help, importing roads

2010-03-17 Thread Adam Dunn
Hi, I was kind of hoping someone more knowledgeable in GIS programming would've responded first for the following reasons: geobase2osm.py is an integral part of the whole roadmatching process for Canada, and it's a very Canadian-specific script (there are chunks of code that deal with naming of

Re: [Talk-ca] call for help, importing roads

2010-03-18 Thread Adam Dunn
data and the (I assume) government data into openjump roadmatcher, so it would be possible to roadmatch with what I have, but not very useful. Adam On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was kind of hoping someone more knowledgeable in GIS programming would've

Re: [Talk-ca] call for help, importing roads

2010-03-18 Thread Adam Dunn
...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: The roads shp files are all the same,, that is true. On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: So far, I've got the LL_Roads2 files imported in PostgreSQL, and I've written some functions to export them (modified from

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec tile splitter 999x33 a to y 5x5 and/or put on a dedicated API?

2010-03-28 Thread Adam Dunn
It is possible to use Osmosis in this way. From [1]: osmosis --read-xml file=Canvec092C01.osm --bounding-box top=48.05 bottom=48 left=-124.1 right=-124 --write-xml file=Canvec092C01A.osm For my own work with geobase2osm.py I wrote a small bash shell script that will grab coordinates from Frank's

Re: [Talk-ca] FW: Welcome to MyTTC!

2010-03-28 Thread Adam Dunn
Cool, looking at [http://bcer.trams.bc.ca/pics/chilllq.JPG] the railyard was converted into the library/Salish Park/Holiday Inn (now Coast Hotels). Looks like a good use of the railway=abandoned tag? [ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railway] Adam On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Sam Vekemans

Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-03-30 Thread Adam Dunn
Many bike racks are also under cover (Buchanan and Dempster come to mind), so good luck spotting them on Yahoo. I can also attest to the fact that Yahoo is not very well orthorectified for UBC, especially in the theology department and Gage towers. I think Fairview was okay though... I don't see

Re: [Talk-ca] call for help, importing roads

2010-04-05 Thread Adam Dunn
was made for/by Canada. (Besides, there's no talk-al set up yet). Now I have to try and convert geobase2osm.py to work for the Albanian data. You can be sure I'll be back with more inane questions! Adam On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: I opened up my

Re: [Talk-ca] Provincial Parks Sample

2010-04-05 Thread Adam Dunn
I've opened the seven files that are in the zip file posted on the wiki. Great that I can import Cultus Lake Park near my house (I didn't know that Cultus Lake Park also included part of Vedder Mountain on the other side of the lake!) along with some others in the area. I don't see Manning

Re: [Talk-ca] Provincial Parks Sample

2010-04-06 Thread Adam Dunn
For those who are still wondering, Manning Park should actually be showing up in http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.0866lon=-120.7647zoom=12layers=B000FTF The permalink I had in my last post shouldn't have any national or provincial parks in it. Adam On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sam

Re: [Talk-ca] On renderers

2010-04-08 Thread Adam Dunn
My personal favourite example that I tell people is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HaptoRender where OSM data is used to print a haptic map for blind users. I think it demonstrates very well the difference between access to final rendered images vs. access to the raw data. Adam On Thu, Apr

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase Aboriginal lands provincial OSM zip files now available

2010-04-16 Thread Adam Dunn
Taking a look at BC 0006.osm, some questions (I've also imported/uploaded the following examples so others can see): Looking at Skowkale 10 [1] and Upper Sumas 6 [2], both of these reserves have multiple exclaves. They're essentially one large reserve (each) that has been carved up into pieces

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm samples

2010-04-29 Thread Adam Dunn
I'm getting NullPointerException in JOSM for all three files, and making sure the line feeds are unix (since I'm on linux) doesn't help. This is with JOSM 3208. Open file: /home/adam/Desktop/021L14_sample.osm (2796211 bytes) org.openstreetmap.josm.io.IllegalDataException:

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm samples

2010-05-05 Thread Adam Dunn
-- *From:* talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto: talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org] *On Behalf Of *Adam Dunn *Sent:* 5 mai 2010 16:29 *To:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm samples Got a response on the error here [http://josm.openstreetmap.de

[Talk-ca] BCGNIS Rescind Date

2010-05-26 Thread Adam Dunn
This is rather off-topic, but this list has many knowledgeable people... Does anybody know how to find the date of rescinds/adopts from BCGNIS[1]? My dad is interested in fishing at a lake, and I noticed some naming discrepancies between sources. It appears that one name has been rescinded, with

Re: [Talk-ca] Seeking help with BC errors

2010-06-17 Thread Adam Dunn
Sam, you didn't really answer the question. In what way is OSM not complete? As an example, I downloaded the three ways that start at http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.07513mlon=-116.14094zoom=17 (the last of the error messages) and all of them have correct connections at both ends of the

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product almost...

2010-06-17 Thread Adam Dunn
Opened up 092G06. highway=unclassified is misspelled. The 092G06 data has highway=unclasified (with one 's'). footway bridges appear to be duplicated on top of the non-bridge footway that they are a part of. In other words, a [highway=footway] will continue the entire length of the path

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product - Last Call !!!

2010-07-02 Thread Adam Dunn
. If not, it will tagged as natural=water. No fixes need. Cheers, Daniel -- *From:* Adam Dunn [mailto:dunna...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 30 juin 2010 14:47 *To:* Bégin, Daniel *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product - Last Call !!! @Daniel: Not fixing

Re: [Talk-ca] Copying objects with relations between layers in josm

2010-07-14 Thread Adam Dunn
Silly me, I forgot to reply all, and just did a reply. Here's what I said to James originally: In josm, open the relation editor (the button icon has a gear cog) In the relation editor, click the relation you want to copy. At the bottom of the relation editor, click set the current selection to

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Wiki page on meetup

2010-07-17 Thread Adam Dunn
-- From: Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:39:03 -0700 Subject: Wiki page on meetup To: Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vancouver/July2010 -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Wiki page on meetup

2010-07-17 Thread Adam Dunn
WiFi, probably a lot of power outlets. Alan On Jul 17, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Adam Dunn wrote: Sam was replying to an off-list message, so here's the wiki link: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vancouver/July2010 Once we have a location figured out, I'm going to add the event to the calendar

Re: [Talk-ca] CANVEC data for Ottawa

2010-07-17 Thread Adam Dunn
http://stfu.blogs.ablenet.org/100/how_to_connect_to_irc_with_pidgin_gaim The server you want is irc.oftc.net Once you are on the server, you can type /join #osm-ca to join the channel. There's not really an account managing system that you have to sign up with. OFTC does have nickserv support, but

[Talk-ca] Misspelled British Columbia in Protected Areas data

2010-07-20 Thread Adam Dunn
I was importing the boundary for E.C. Manning Prov Park and Cascades Recreation Area, which have so far been missing on OSM, when I realized that British Columbia was spelled wrong in English. This misspelling is right in the original shape file from

Re: [Talk-ca] Misspelled British Columbia in Protected Areas data

2010-07-20 Thread Adam Dunn
values like \xc9, but the osm file has accented characters) Adam On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: I was importing the boundary for E.C. Manning Prov Park and Cascades Recreation Area, which have so far been missing on OSM, when I realized that British Columbia

Re: [Talk-ca] Hiking trails - Is bad data better than no data?

2010-07-25 Thread Adam Dunn
You've got the right idea. I'm the only hiking trail mapper for the Upper Fraser Valley (so far), and I do basically the same thing. The trails I hike are non-circuits, so I get a track both in and out. Then I upload the track so that future mappers with tracks will be able to average my track

Re: [Talk-ca] Tags.. Showers, Camp Store, Trailer dumping?

2010-08-03 Thread Adam Dunn
When you say Trailer Dumping area, I guess you're talking about the sani-dump, where a travel trailer will dump excrement, waste water, and other garbage (along with the ability to pick up fresh water). These I tag as amenity=waste_disposal, waste=excrement as per

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Boundries?

2010-08-06 Thread Adam Dunn
An interesting system you've devised there. I'm not aware of any listing of boundaries such as you mentioned, but perhaps Daniel has a verbose log produced by the software that he's using? One of the things I was going to ask about for the next Canvec conversion was an RSS feed (or some similar

[Talk-ca] Merging and Bounding Box Splitting Yan's NLFLOW Data

2010-08-06 Thread Adam Dunn
The Players: Okay, I admit it, I'm not much of a bash scripting person. Actually, I'm not much of a shell scripting person. Everytime I need to use sed or awk, I spend a lot of time Googling to remember correct syntax. So I've written a script, but it doesn't quite work, and I'm hoping lazyweb

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product - Running!

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Dunn
For the next release, would it be possible to get: 1. A text file (stored on the ftp) that lists all the quadtree-tiles output. Some people might want to write scripts that can do work based on available CanVec osm files, but it would help to know how much subdividing occurred. Currently, we must

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product - Running!

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Dunn
I was intending for the file listing to be sorted alphabetically, while the rss one would be sorted chronologically. Having a timestamp field in the file listing could work though. The advantage to having the RSS/Atom format is that people can plug it into RSS/Atom/xml readers if they use any.

Re: [Talk-ca] Hiding an object

2010-08-17 Thread Adam Dunn
This really sounds like a mapping for the renderer situation (in this case the renderer would be Garmin). This is generally discouraged. You have the address information (in the Karlsruhe schema), but the Garmin converter doesn't support it, so you are adding in extra tags to get better Garmin

Re: [Talk-ca] ridethecity.com

2010-09-05 Thread Adam Dunn
Don't know much about it, but there is a drop-down box on the top-right that allows you to select from a short list of cities. Toronto is the only Canadian one there. http://ridethecity.com/toronto# Adam On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:42 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: I understand its

Re: [Talk-ca] Any one on Rogers network?

2010-09-24 Thread Adam Dunn
I'm on Shaw Cable (in the Vancouver area), and I get (note for some reason I have tracepath installed instead of traceroute, but effects should be the same): $ tracepath b.tile.openstreetmap.org 1: Hopper.local 0.236ms pmtu 1500 1: 192.168.0.1

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec import troubles

2010-09-25 Thread Adam Dunn
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com wrote: I'm not 100% sure what happened with the Canvec data you uploaded, but it looks like the tags are missing from lot of the ways. The wooded areas are not showing up because they're not marked natural=wood, and the watered

Re: [Talk-ca] Islands of Manitoba in Nunavut

2010-09-25 Thread Adam Dunn
To those who have been on this mailing list for a while, I'll point out that these were added by vreimer in 2009. Adam On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Samuel samueld...@gmail.com wrote: While where on data problems, what's up with these things on the MB-NU border (

Re: [Talk-ca] Islands of Manitoba in Nunavut

2010-09-26 Thread Adam Dunn
or he knew exactly what he was doing. At this point I'm wondering if all his edits should be removed from the map owing to inaccuracies and unknown sources. Sam On 10-09-25 08:21 PM, Adam Dunn wrote: To those who have been on this mailing list for a while, I'll point out that these were

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Re: CanVec import troubles

2010-09-28 Thread Adam Dunn
, Samuel samueld...@gmail.com wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec import troubles Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:19:49 -0500 From: Samuel samueld...@gmail.com samueld...@gmail.com To: Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com dunna...@gmail.com Hi So how would I replace

Re: [Talk-ca] Rendering rules and tagging paths and hard shoulders for cycles

2010-09-28 Thread Adam Dunn
Haven't done much bicycle tagging myself. Have you tried tagg...@openstreetmap.org? I would highly recommend including pictures from flickr etc, since different people have different ideas about what a cycle lane is (especially people from different countries). Here in Chilliwack a cycle path is

Re: [Talk-ca] More CanVec import problems

2010-10-03 Thread Adam Dunn
In Josm, you can check out the history (the blue book in the toolbar opens up the history pane, or you can go to Tools-Object History, or you can press ctrl-h). If it's a new way (past day or so) then just wait a bit. If it's old (more than a month and hasn't been edited since), then see if it

Re: [Talk-ca] More CanVec import problems

2010-10-03 Thread Adam Dunn
not get something similar? You would then right-click the relation listed, Select relation, and then copy-paste from one layer to another. Adam On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: In Josm, you can check out the history (the blue book in the toolbar opens up the history

Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment

2010-11-01 Thread Adam Dunn
Here's the NRN (6.0, but I see 7.0 is now available on the NRN website) 092G06C file that I used for import, if you want that as a reference. Some of the NRN roads (remember this is version 6) were out of date (like the Iona Drive/Theology area). I didn't actually import much from NRN, since most

Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment

2010-11-01 Thread Adam Dunn
: Just to clarify - are we allowed to use the BC orthophotos now as well? Also I might stick the converted Vancouver ortho GeoTIFFs on my web hosting account if they are in demand. Russell On 2010-11-01, at 10:26 AM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the NRN (6.0, but I see 7.0 is now

Re: [Talk-ca] How should a noob proceed?

2011-01-29 Thread Adam Dunn
As the person who did GeoBase import for Kamloops, I thank you for checking over the work! Kamloops already had some mapping done in the area before I started the import, so it was difficult making sure everything was correct. My knowledge of Kamloops is pretty much restricted to the highway and

Re: [Talk-ca] Simplifying CanVec imports

2011-02-13 Thread Adam Dunn
Does simplifying like this cause issues where one feature joins up with another feature? I'm assuming that JOSM won't move end nodes of ways during simplification, so rivers connecting to lakes should be okay, but what about places where there is a common node in the middle of a way? Are there

Re: [Talk-ca] Coastline vs. water

2011-02-21 Thread Adam Dunn
I'm not seeing any problems. Bounding box or way id or screenshots would help. Copied from [1]: At low zoom levels, up to and including zoom level 9, Mapnik renders all the sea as a solid fill of blue, generated from the shapefile shoreline_300 (used for z0-9), which has a relatively low

Re: [Talk-ca] Proposal: Cleanup of NHN ways in BC

2011-02-22 Thread Adam Dunn
Right, the NHN import in the area mentioned was done by MBiker. MBiker was a pretty big mapper for the Vancouver area. He started off doing lots of manual edits by biking around and gps'ing, then he got involved in the NRN road import for east GVRD, then he did NHN for the entire watershed area

Re: [Talk-ca] Proposal: Cleanup of NHN ways in BC

2011-02-22 Thread Adam Dunn
that after doing all of these steps that some waterways may be mistagged, but it should be significantly fewer than currently and after simplification and joining named ways together it should be easier to go in and edit. -Original Message- From: Adam Dunn [mailto:dunna...@gmail.com] Sent

[Talk-ca] Firing Range Mistagged as Cemetery?

2011-02-22 Thread Adam Dunn
A couple years ago, before the CFB closed down, there was a firing range for the military. A high school has since been built there, but you can see [1] for the approximate position (the range still appears in Yahoo and Bing). I was doing some Canvec 7 import for my area, and noticed that this

[Talk-ca] List of CanVec Conversions

2011-02-23 Thread Adam Dunn
I've gone through some old emails, and compiled a section for CanVec-OSM conversions on the wiki page. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec#CanVec_Versions Hopefully this will help people who are working on CanVec import. If someone sees a problem in data that has already been uploaded to

Re: [Talk-ca] Anybody want to join me for a one to 1.5 hour webinar?

2011-02-24 Thread Adam Dunn
I'm not much of an Ontario trail user, being 4 provinces away, but I could listen in ;) Any special software required? Adam On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Ontario Trails ontra...@gmail.com wrote: I only threw out some

Re: [Talk-ca] Determining The Identity Of Features

2011-02-27 Thread Adam Dunn
Richard and Sam beat me to the response, but here's my understanding anyways: You can't copyright fact. The fact that a trail has some name is not copyright-able. Collections of facts are copyright-able, however. Let's say you come across a single trail marker such as that in

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-04 Thread Adam Dunn
British Columbia: the highway 97/97C interchange (between kelowna and peachland) had a routing error, but was corrected two days after the data was pulled (by someone I don't know). When you said fast, you weren't kidding! This'll be great to get on the main page (when it works in conjunction

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Thread Adam Dunn
Hwy 1;97/5 interchange west of Kamloops: heading east on 1, then changing to south on 5, motorway_link incorrectly tagged as oneway. Sam L, should [http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/24446790] be a two-directional single carriageway or one way dual carriageways (has a concrete Jersey barrier

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Thread Adam Dunn
local knowledge willing to give it a go?  It's a bit of a dog's breakfast right now. http://osm.org/go/WOMm6ScJD-- Sam L. -Original Message- From: Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org, Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing

[Talk-ca] Here we go again...

2011-03-05 Thread Adam Dunn
Anybody got a claim on user user_5365? [http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/user_5365/] This user is doing lots of Canvec importing, and is actually self-identifying as a bot (with the tag bot=yes). Rather disconcerting, considering the fierce debate that happened just a couple weeks ago over on

Re: [Talk-ca] Here we go again...

2011-03-05 Thread Adam Dunn
I've found the people on talk-ca to be a little calmer, so I thought it would be okay to send a message here. I wouldn't say people here are less opinionated, but I think they are less vociferous about their opinions, and I think that's due to the small size of the list. Shortly after my first

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Thread Adam Dunn
Langley, BC: Hwy 1 west to 56 Ave at 1/13 interchange: short section marked as oneway when it shouldn't be. Fixed. Just south of Merritt, at the 5/5C/97A interchange, heading north on 5, then going east on 97C, there's a traffic-lit intersection with 97C. Since 97C is dual carriageway, the

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Thread Adam Dunn
improve thanks to this. I can't believe how many errors there were, and major ones that would prevent road trip planning for travellers. Thanks Richard, and the other programmers involved! Adam On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: Langley, BC: Hwy 1 west to 56 Ave

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Thread Adam Dunn
Message- From: Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com To: talk-ca talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo. Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:43:21 -0800 SNIP This site is great for finding route errors. OSM will really improve thanks to this. I can't believe how many errors

Re: [Talk-ca] Here we go again...

2011-03-05 Thread Adam Dunn
, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody got a claim on user user_5365? [http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/user_5365/] This user is doing lots of Canvec importing, and is actually self-identifying as a bot (with the tag bot=yes). Rather disconcerting, considering the fierce debate

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing errors, turn restrictions and median crossovers

2011-03-05 Thread Adam Dunn
Rather than turn restrictions, what about tagging the service way itself as access=no,emergency=yes, or something similar? There's also an abandoned tag for access=emergency [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/emergency_vehicle_access]. Adam On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:00 PM,

Re: [Talk-ca] Secret routing demo.

2011-03-05 Thread Adam Dunn
In Vancouver, from Hwy 1 heading west onto Brunette Ave heading southwest, the routing software advises to take the offramp going north onto Brunette, then do a u-turn at the Brunette/Bernatchey intersection in order to head south on Brunette. However, if one were to continue along Hwy 1, there is

Re: [Talk-ca] Did I just find a potentially significant bug in JOSM?

2011-03-07 Thread Adam Dunn
Sam wrote I think you're getting the exceptions because you've modified the data, but have not updated the list. This is definitely an issue I have encountered with Validator. If you run the validator to check for errors, then delete some nodes or ways yourself, then try to use validator's

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

2011-03-25 Thread Adam Dunn
Assuming the dataset clears legal, my preferred way of converting shapefiles to osm is using ogr2osm [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm]. You get to write your own tag filters in Python (two samples are provided in the translations directory), as long as you're not doing any complicated

Re: [Talk-ca] Did I just find a potentially significant bug in JOSM?

2011-03-27 Thread Adam Dunn
Congratulations on filing a bug report Dan. For those interested, http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/6087 would be the ticket in question. Adam On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Dan Charrois d...@syz.com wrote: Thanks Adam, and everyone else who responded to my message.  I'm glad to learn the

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing Canvec data, but causing huge issues

2011-04-02 Thread Adam Dunn
I don't have or use Merkaartor, I'm a JOSM fellow. For reference, the lake that you pointed to is in 083H07.1.2 [ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/osm/pub/083/H/083H07.zip] You're right in that there's nothing wrong with the Canvec data. Well, it does have two duped ways, which could be reduced, but

Re: [Talk-ca] Duplicate rail lines in 092H06

2011-04-11 Thread Adam Dunn
, Daniel -Original Message- From: Adam Dunn [mailto:dunna...@gmail.com] Sent: April 10, 2011 12:24 To: Bégin, Daniel Subject: Duplicate rail lines in 092H06 Haven't checked other areas, but 092H06 has duplicate ways with the same tags for rail lines. Adam

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing issue / Probleme de routage

2011-04-13 Thread Adam Dunn
If you set the origin to be Gaspé, and a destination of Cornwall, then MapQuest will take the long way through Miramichi. If you set the destination to Dorval, then MapQuest will go through Rimouski. The difference in destination between Cornwall and Dorval is negligible, and both are far away

Re: [Talk-ca] Great Lakes shoreline

2011-04-20 Thread Adam Dunn
Coastline updates vary, depending on Mapnik vs. Osmarender and what zoom level you're looking at. I've done editing to the coastline that represents Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, and edits made on April 2 still have not been rendered by Mapnik, but they have been rendered by

[Talk-ca] Merging Canvec with NHN streams

2011-04-23 Thread Adam Dunn
I have encountered an issue when importing Canvec in areas where NHN has already been imported. It's not so much an error with the data as it is an error with my methods of importing. I'll just put this here in case anyone else is doing similar or has suggestions for better methods. What I've

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging Canvec with NHN streams

2011-05-11 Thread Adam Dunn
JOSM will only delete ways; nodes will only get deleted if there are no more ways using them and if they have no tags. Adam On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: I have encountered an issue when importing Canvec in areas where NHN has already been imported. It's

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec natural=land tags and untagged ways

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Dunn
The natural=island tag that Daniel is referring to used to be applied to the way of the island. This is the old way of doing things (pre-Canvec 7). I think the natural=land tag that Samuel is referring to is a single node at the centre of the island (Canvec 7). The natural=land node is there for

[Talk-ca] CanVec Import Videos

2011-05-20 Thread Adam Dunn
In an attempt to attract more people to CanVec importing, I've started making a series of videos that demonstrates the process. Please see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec#Screencasts_of_CanVec_Imports and let me know what you think. Adam ___

Re: [Talk-ca] Railways duplicated in CanVec data

2011-05-28 Thread Adam Dunn
Indeed. In fact, this issue has already been listed on the wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec#CanVec_7 :) Adam On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca wrote: I've been importing in south central BC and have noticed that there is a consistent

Re: [Talk-ca] Kamloops Data

2011-07-29 Thread Adam Dunn
You've probably seen my name come up quite often in the Kamloops area, so I will introduce myself a bit. I did the NRN import (government roads) for Kamloops, but I live in Chilliwack. It took a great deal of time (about a week, I believe) to merge the NRN data with the data that was already

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging ways

2011-08-21 Thread Adam Dunn
There's two methods to join two areas: you can delete the coincident segments and combine the two unclosed polygons (as you have tried), or you can use JOSM's join ways feature. What you are doing (the first method) should have worked, and I don't know why the two ways don't want to stay joined

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging ways

2011-08-21 Thread Adam Dunn
/Relation:multipolygon Happy mapping! Adam On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:33 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: There's two methods to join two areas: you can delete the coincident segments and combine the two unclosed polygons

Re: [Talk-ca] Your new coastline

2011-09-02 Thread Adam Dunn
A man with one watch will always know the time. A man with two watches will always be in doubt. --Unknown Adam On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:34 PM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: I wish they'd updated the Bing

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