Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
; > I invite other canadian OSM contributors to express their agreement with > Daniel message. :) > > > Pierre > > > ------ > *De :* Begin Daniel <jfd...@hotmail.com> > *À :* James <james2...@gmail.com>; Adam Martin <s.adam.mar...@gma

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
il.com> wrote: No sarcasm at all, why? Sorry you got that impression L Daniel *From:* James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, 30 August, 2016 20:50 *To:* Begin Daniel *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap; john whelan; Adam Martin *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
Not sure if you are sarcastic or serious... but anyways, I'm glad the rest of talk-ca feels the same way(sorry for highjacking fix the forest thread even though it was kind of related) On Aug 30, 2016 8:43 PM, "Begin Daniel" wrote: Wow, same ideas, same concerns, provided

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
Andrew, you best be careful there is a german that is reverting CanVec imports for stupid little reasons see: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39517002 On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Andrew wrote: > On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 23:47 -0400, Gordon Dewis wrote: > >

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
ANVEC stuff will > do until surveys or satellite data catches up with those areas. > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:35 AM, John Marshall <rps...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Andrew, I hear you! I have been trying to add data around unmapped >> Northern Communities around Jame

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-31 Thread James
We could add it as a subpage to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada seeing as it involves all of Canada and list out why it's this way etc On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Begin Daniel wrote: > “Whats up with the forests in Canada?” A wiki page is a good

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-31 Thread James
016 at 10:50 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We could add it as a subpage to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ >> wiki/WikiProject_Canada seeing as it involves all of Canada and list out >> why it's this way etc >> >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Beg

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec attributes (roads)

2016-09-11 Thread James
Plus it would help identify which parts and canvec are actually needed vs importing a bunch of forests and hoping for some roads On Sep 11, 2016 2:48 PM, "John Marshall" wrote: > Great idea Martijn, > > One of the big problems of OSM in Canada is there are many missing road >

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-09 Thread James
Yes, they will have to be as some people get revert happy, if you dont use dedicated accounts. Also this will follow want the guidelines want so everyone can be happy. On Sep 9, 2016 11:51 AM, "Stewart Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi James, > > > If you are as

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa has changed its Open Data licence.

2016-09-14 Thread James
Only took 3 years.*hurray*! On Sep 14, 2016 5:16 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > http://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/open-data-licence-version-20 > > It should now be aligned with the Federal Government one so that should > mean we can import the GTFS bus stop

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence compatibility: Open Data Licence for The Regional Municipality of Peel (Version 1.0)

2016-09-08 Thread James
This is something Kevin Farrugia might be able to help us with On Sep 8, 2016 6:12 PM, "Stewart Russell" wrote: > I checked on OSM-legal. Would probably work if we had a statement from > Peel agreeing to inclusion. As is, it's likely not compatible. > > Stewart > > --

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-08 Thread James
If you are asking if we are going to just dump a whole lot of data as is in a region, the answer is no. Each tile is going to need manual work to determine what data(adress, building outline, building+adress) and to verify that the data is accurate On Sep 8, 2016 7:15 PM, "Stewart Russell"

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-08 Thread James
so no need to > invite anyone special. :) > > Kevin > > On Sep 8, 2016 2:24 PM, "Stewart Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi James: >> >> As per the import guide lines I wish to seek approval for importing >>> building outlines and a

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-08 Thread James
ist, wenn lokale Genehmigung erfolgt. Veröffentlichung auf der Diskussions-ca ist die lokale Gemeinde die Genehmigung, bevor sie zu der Einfuhrliste zu erhalten Guten Tag Herr. On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Michael Reichert <naka...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi James, > > Am 08.0

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec attributes (roads)

2016-09-12 Thread James
g > > > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016, at 12:59, James wrote: > > Plus it would help identify which parts and canvec are actually needed vs > importing a bunch of forests and hoping for some roads > > On Sep 11, 2016 2:48 PM, "John Marshall" <rps...@gmail.

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs Osmose et changesets

2016-09-12 Thread James
1. Non tu n'a pas besoin de le verifier, c'est parce que qqun a dessiner un edifice par dessus un autre, ou meme lui meme 2- A moins d'avoir 100% des addresses sur une rue(ou tu pourrais suprimer l'interpolation), garde les interpolations car quand on cherche une addresse non attrappee par un

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs Osmose et changesets

2016-09-12 Thread James
Puis, pour le meme numéro tu pourrais marqué un faux positif car le but ultime serait d'avoir toutes les adresses et aucune interpolation On Sep 12, 2016 7:00 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. Non tu n'a pas besoin de le verifier, c'est parce que qqun a dessin

Re: [Talk-ca] French street names in Ottawa addr:street:fr

2016-09-26 Thread James
License changed, it's compatible with ODBL check again. Kthanks On Sep 26, 2016 12:04 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > Hi John, > > > Please note the correct French name for rue Sparks is "rue Sparks" and > > not "Rue Sparks" > > I'm only finding a couple of addr:street:fr in

Re: [Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

2016-09-16 Thread James
I personally dont mind having it in Native language, but if there is going to be changed there should be a corresponding name:en tag as the rest of the world can't read it. One of the reasons I don't mind is: who would possibly use it? People in Nunavut, that's who. It should be as accessible to

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs créées par des non-locaux

2016-09-20 Thread James
Daniel is correct, he says the roads dont join and he's been there physically. On Sep 20, 2016 5:52 AM, "Begin Daniel" wrote: > Simply said, > > Looks like the original ways were linked to other ones by someone from > Telenav (according to reasonable image interpretation)

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs créées par des non-locaux

2016-09-19 Thread James
La premiere etape c'est de contacter l'utilisateur directement. Fait juste dire pourquoi ces donnees sont incorrecte et il cimprendera On Sep 19, 2016 3:54 PM, "dega" <gade...@gmail.com> wrote: > Salut James. Tu as écrit: > > As-tu envoyer un message à l'utilisateur dir

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs créées par des non-locaux

2016-09-19 Thread James
Tu n'a pas répondu à ma question... http://i68.tinypic.com/b4z4et.png C'est clairement visible qu'il y a une route là... 2016-09-19 15:00 GMT-04:00 dega : > Encore un mensonge. > biancah_telenav a inscrit le commentaire suivant dans son groupe de > modifications: >

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs créées par des non-locaux

2016-09-19 Thread James
chemin 438953406 (au nord du lac de La Blanche) -> Mapbox: je vois clairement qu'il y a une route et des chalets... chemin 438953407 (au sud du Lac de la Blanche) -> Idem C'est quoi le problème? 2016-09-19 14:33 GMT-04:00 dega : > Je viens de découvrir qu'un problème

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs créées par des non-locaux

2016-09-19 Thread James
As-tu envoyer un message à l'utilisateur directement? Avec cette info? On Sep 19, 2016 3:20 PM, "dega" <gade...@gmail.com> wrote: Salut James Regarde attentivement la carte satellite. chemin 438953406 (au nord du lac de La Blanche) Il y a des chalets si on vient de l'ouest (Ch

Re: [Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

2016-09-17 Thread James
rate tags. > > John > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:43 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> You realise that the written language is actually European shorthand >> which was used to record the verbal language. >> >> Cheerio John >&

Re: [Talk-ca] French Street names in Ottawa

2016-09-27 Thread James
Not only that Loïc, writing the first letter of the street type in Caps is more aesthetically pleasing. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

2016-09-26 Thread James
Maybe this video will also help solve what Inuktitut is used for in the arctic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW4hI_METac On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Laura O'Grady wrote: > Just spotted this map of Nunavut on Twitter: > >

Re: [Talk-ca] Road route relations: network tag

2016-10-27 Thread James
They should be corrected to the proper format :) On Oct 27, 2016 6:06 PM, "Martijn van Exel" wrote: > Hi all, > > My mapping colleagues (not me, I only map in my spare time :)) noted that > there are some irregular network tags on highways in Canada. The usual > hierarchical

[Talk-ca] Wikidata in OpenStreetMap

2016-11-10 Thread James
Seeing as ID[1] and Mapbox[2] are pushing to incorporate wikidata into OSM, I thought it would be a perfect little project when mappers have nothing better to do or in their downtime. The wikidata link can help developers get vital information like the current population, current mayor, flags,

Re: [Talk-ca] Wikidata in OpenStreetMap

2016-11-11 Thread James
untry=Australia (use english name of the country) is_in:country_code=AU On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Stewart Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 11, 2016 6:04 AM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The other tags are precisions (instead o

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-19 Thread James
>>>> attempting to crowd source adding tags added to non residential buildings >>>> within the City of Ottawa and Gatineau. These include the number of levels >>>> and the use of the building. They will be suggesting using a customised iD >>>> to their gene

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-19 Thread James
Bjenk said he will send me the agreement Friday when he's back at the office that will clear us for use of the data. On Oct 19, 2016 5:01 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I will contact Bjenk to get the agreement between StatsCan and the city of > Ottawa and

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-19 Thread James
com> wrote: > On 10/19/2016 12:53 PM, James wrote: > > Does this count Paul? >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/ >> Import/Permission >> >> As its in the plan >> >> > This is all about the old terms of use, not th

Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-18 Thread James
:11 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm the one running the tasking manager. > > On Oct 17, 2016 9:08 PM, "AJ Ashton" <a...@ajashton.ca> wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> Thanks for the writeup. I think this is the first post that'

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-19 Thread James
"validated" On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Christoph Hormann <chris_horm...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Wednesday 19 October 2016, James wrote: > > Ok, Christoph now that I am at a proper computer I can address your > > comments: > > [...] > > Thanks for t

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-19 Thread James
I have answered most of your concerns Stewart on the wiki. I will continue later today when I'm awake On Oct 20, 2016 1:04 AM, "Denis Carriere" wrote: > Stewart, > > The process was a success for me, the only issue was the data was bad... > I've been involved in

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-19 Thread James
imported building footprints and addresses with coincide together(no backyard addresses) and will provide us with more accurate routing/geolocalization power On Oct 19, 2016 9:59 PM, "Steve Singer" <st...@ssinger.info> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, James wrote: > > Seems like a

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-20 Thread James
of ottawa feels it necessary to rename a couple hundred roads per year and just hasnt been updated in OSM. http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public-consultations/municipal-addressing/street-name-and-address-changes-update-october On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 7:40 AM, Christoph Hormann <chris_horm

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-20 Thread James
Hormann <chris_horm...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Thursday 20 October 2016, James wrote: > > Why are you linking a french wiki page of forest? > > > > Un Foret > > Des Forets > > > > I think it's "des forêts". > > Notice the

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-20 Thread James
I was wrong there is one sign up(i'm glad I drove there) http://openstreetview.com/details/21585/18 See? no "ê". On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:37 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is highly questionable about two levels of Government reaching out to > the

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-22 Thread James
buildings like schools and malls, residential buildings are out. On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-10-21 11:41 PM, James wrote: > > Sounds like it, but the data handed to us didnt have sidewalks and > > roads, driveways etc. Ott

Re: [Talk-ca] Light rail mapping questions

2016-10-22 Thread James
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:train Train does exist as a vehicle type As for cars: I think it would be motor_vehicle: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:motor_vehicle I got the vehicle types from: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access#Transport_mode_restrictions On

Re: [Talk-ca] Light rail mapping questions

2016-10-22 Thread James
Could lanes work? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes Example: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes#Two_driving_directions What ever the train tag would be: train:lanes:forward=no|yes train:lanes:backwards=no|yes Then for passenger cars would be opposite? car:lanes:forward=yes|no

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread James
(Frederik Ramm) *just did a mass revert [0] with his revert script [1] > created in 2009 and now we have 20,000+ warnings of empty nodes within a > small section of Ottawa [2]. > > Not only did *(Frederik Ramm) *undo James commits, but now you've > introduced over 100,000+ warnin

Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-17 Thread James
I'm the one running the tasking manager. On Oct 17, 2016 9:08 PM, "AJ Ashton" wrote: > Hi John, > > Thanks for the writeup. I think this is the first post that's made it > fully clear what is going on. As I was re-reading the previous StatCan > thread earlier today I seemed to

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread James
Like this one Kevin? https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2016-July/007034.html or this one? https://www.mail-archive.com/talk-ca@openstreetmap.org/msg07024.html or this one? https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2016-August/007151.html or this one?

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-24 Thread James
Bjenk(STATS Can) is communicating/pushing with the the city of Ottawa, even may resolve to offering coffee bribes to be able to host the shared file on open.canada.ca. He's been relentless in his effort to move the project forward, but as most Canadian gouvernment entities it moves at a snails

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-24 Thread James
ferent government levels there > should not be a problem. > > The traditional way to gently refuse something is for it to get lost in > the system. I haven't seen any signs of that yet. > > I think things have moved forward but perhaps not at the pace everyone > might like.

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-25 Thread James
.PNG I know this as I am a local mapper. On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:52 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can guarantee that this data is roof level data. While I was examining > data there were cart returns mapped as outlines. This data was also traced > via orthophoto

Re: [Talk-ca] MapRoulette challenges

2016-10-21 Thread James
I think mapbox covered this in a previous pass on the canadian motorways(and documented this pretty well): https://gist.github.com/manoharuss/3a1b4f640aaf2c052365fcb1ddb09beb https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/220 https://gist.github.com/poornibadrinath/9333f1489732c32c3ffadd58e3068b7e

Re: [Talk-ca] MapRoulette challenges

2016-10-21 Thread James
metros I believe. The > remaining ones should be mainly outside of the larger urban areas. See > http://maproulette.org/view/499 for locations of the tasks. > > Martijn > > Martijn van Exel > http://mvexel.github.io/ > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:55 AM, James <j

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-21 Thread James
I agree with Pavel (about the guidelines being considered to be followed to a T, when guidelines by definition are what should be done) As for Ottawa relying on external sources to collect data/correct the data. Ottawa has a GIS team and surveyors and do said work internally. So they do own 100%

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-21 Thread James
Sounds like it, but the data handed to us didnt have sidewalks and roads, driveways etc. Ottawa may have exported data from this file On Oct 21, 2016 11:19 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-10-20 10:37 AM, James wrote: > > > > We seem t

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-21 Thread James
Converting, DWG to DXF to open in qgis should be fun On Oct 21, 2016 11:41 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds like it, but the data handed to us didnt have sidewalks and roads, > driveways etc. Ottawa may have exported data from this file > > On Oct 2

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-24 Thread James
AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've updated the documentation and incorporated Scruss's findings on the > build source data: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario: > Ottawa/Import/TopographicMap > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Begin Daniel &l

[Talk-ca] Open data in Canada

2016-10-24 Thread James
I've been looking for open data portals for potential future import into OpenStreetMap(why duplicate efforts right?) I've documented the one's I've found here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada#Open_Data ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-24 Thread James
24, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-10-24 08:04 AM, James wrote: > > I've updated the documentation and incorporated Scruss's findings on the > > build source data: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario: >

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-24 Thread James
AM *To:* Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca>; Perkins, Stephen M <stephen.perk...@ottawa.ca> *Subject:* RE: Open Canada Hi Bjenk, I have no problem with that. Ian On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:28 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've received a for

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-24 Thread James
4 October 2016, James wrote: > > As stated, multiple times on this list already: the city of Ottawa > > gave data to Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada gave us (amazon > > cloud link) data, which is just building outlines. > > Please don't change the subject, Stewart asked

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-24 Thread James
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com > wrote: > On 2016-10-24 3:28 PM, James wrote: > >> I've received a forwarded email from Bjenk that may settle the debate >> where the data originates from (I'd forward it to the list, but it woul

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa Buildings has the revert finished? Is it safe to add a new Internet cafe yet?

2016-10-24 Thread James
Judging by http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/woodpeck_repair/history#map=10/45.2996/-75.6981 There hasn't been activity in 24hrs... Frederik Ramm said he'd update us. On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:56 PM, john whelan wrote: > Thanks John > >

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-24 Thread James
As stated, multiple times on this list already: the city of Ottawa gave data to Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada gave us (amazon cloud link) data, which is just building outlines. In case you are in doubt this project is actually happening or not (and I am just making the whole thing up):

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-24 Thread James
be found as polygons in the Canvec > product. > > Furthermore, NRCan did not update the Canvec buildings layer for more than > 20 years (the oldest is 1944), with only a few exceptions… > > > > Daniel > > > > *From:* James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Sa

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-24 Thread James
I've updated the file(I can't delete it without and admin) On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com > wrote: > On 2016-10-24 3:50 PM, James wrote: > >> It was more to prove that the emails are Trusted sources and not made >> up. The e

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-20 Thread James
Are you done the revert yet? I got a message from: lesc "Hi, It looks like some changes in Kanata you did removed all the lines that represent buildings and only the corners are left as points. Thanks, Les" Seems like your reverting is messing up data

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2016-10-19 Thread James
Yeah no one really wants to do that, except maybe mapbox's india contractors On Oct 19, 2016 2:43 PM, "John Marshall" wrote: > Make sense to me. Adding turn restrictions is something I don't want to > add. > > Happy to see all my Mapillary and OpenStreetView imagery being used

[Talk-ca] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-19 Thread James
Seems like a good enough time like any other to talk about the import of Ottawa buildings and addresses into OpenStreetMap. Documentation is available here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Plan Discussion with local mappers has happened in person for multiple

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-19 Thread James
be suggesting using a customised iD >> to their general public but given the experience of iD mapping buildings in >> HOT it was thought that importing the building outlines would give a better >> quality map at the end. >> >> Cheerio John >> >> On 19 Octo

[Talk-ca] Steve Coast meetup

2016-11-13 Thread James
Hi everyone. If you are in this list I'm assuming you love everything OpenStreetMap. Well you're in for a treat! OSM founder and creator, Steve Coast, will be in the Ottawa/Gatineau area in November. We are currently organizing a meetup with him on November 17th. A a quick overview of how the

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-20 Thread James
r concerns of problems that may arise during this import, this is what this process is for is it not? To address concerns people may have. On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:50 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you are complaining that it doesnt have "ê" you are going to have to

[Talk-ca] Avoiding data redundancy

2016-10-17 Thread James
I've been looking into data in Ottawa(this is one of many cities that do this) and a lot of addresses/buildings have "addr:city" and I even get "addr:province" and "addr:country". Seeing as there are boundary polygons for Ottawa, Ontario and Canada. I think to reduce data redundancy these should

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread James
Stewart, that's where you are wrong. Ottawa has supplied data(footprints and address) to Stats Can to import into OSM for their project under the Canada Open Gov License so there would be no issues with licensing. We are using that data. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Stewart C. Russell

Re: [Talk-ca] City of Ottawa imported buildings & addresses

2016-10-17 Thread James
ied the new outline to the school multipolygon and must have missed coping the building level. My mistake. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-10-17 03:33 PM, James wrote: > > Stewart, that's where you are wrong. Ottawa has suppli

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Fwd: [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-12-21 Thread James
Just to give an update, Ottawa has finally approved moving the building outlines to the open data portal. The person responsible is on vacation and will be back the 9th of January 2017 and expect it to be live by the end of that week. So with data source not being publicly available, are there

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
:11 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-12-22 07:47 PM, James wrote: > > From what was told to me at the school, Stewart, you are allowed to > > create derivative work/tracing, but not distribute the imagery. > > You may be able

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Fwd: [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-12-23 Thread James
Also Devon, the city of Ottawa said that they will not be updating the file provided on their portal as it is only for the StatsCan project to advance(publicly available) , so for now anyways it's a one time import as there will never be any other version. The polygons themselves have no

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
It may take a while for them to respond, due to the christmas holiday and all. On Dec 22, 2016 8:13 PM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Will do. If it needs to be reverted, I will do so. > > On Dec 22, 2016 8:11 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmai

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Fwd: [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-12-22 Thread James
Hi devon, those DWG files(if you were following the import thread, you would already know this) are old and outdated, never to be updated again. The newer file is an export of what they have to date. On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Devon Fyson wrote: > Here's are my

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Fwd: [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-12-22 Thread James
*1. Arn't the building polygons already available? I see large buildings > and the topographic DWG file

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
It's too bad I document everything before. http://imgur.com/a/yedmc On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 3:23 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > And suddenly the osmcha disapproval from Nakaner(Michael has > disapearedI know he's on this list as he does popup from time to time &g

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
is flagged, which I'm tired of(thus the defensive attitude). On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:46 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Frederik, your email is very opinionated, when I have just showed you > (pixel based) why I drew that building like that. > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
Frederik, your email is very opinionated, when I have just showed you (pixel based) why I drew that building like that. On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >I've been involved in a changeset discussion that I would like to > bring to the

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
And suddenly the osmcha disapproval from Nakaner(Michael has disapearedI know he's on this list as he does popup from time to time on this listvery suspicious indeed. On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 3:08 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://osmcha.mapbox.com/44545610/ &g

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
skates. Cheerio John On 22 December 2016 at 16:28, Michael Reichert <naka...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi James, > > Am 22.12.2016 um 21:23 schrieb James: > > And suddenly the osmcha disapproval from Nakaner(Michael has > > disapearedI know he's on this list as he does popup

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
out of my control On Dec 22, 2016 4:30 PM, "Michael Reichert" <naka...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi James, > > Am 22.12.2016 um 21:23 schrieb James: > > And suddenly the osmcha disapproval from Nakaner(Michael has > > disapearedI know he's on this list as he does p

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
>From what was told to me at the school, Stewart, you are allowed to create derivative work/tracing, but not distribute the imagery. On Dec 22, 2016 7:29 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > On 2016-12-22 02:43 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > > >

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
Will do. If it needs to be reverted, I will do so. On Dec 22, 2016 8:11 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-12-22 07:47 PM, James wrote: > > From what was told to me at the school, Stewart, you are allowed to > > create derivative w

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
If you want me to commit in even smaller chunks I don't mind, I just hate wasting "commit numbers" (see int64 limit, in which osm will have to change their commit id schema or support int128) ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
016 at 6:09 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As Devonf has pointed out, if you want to see the carletonuniversity(cant >> download I'm sorry) you can visit http://maps.ottawa.ca/geoottawa/ and >> view the "2014" aerial ortho, which seems to be the

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > On 12/22/2016 3:21 PM, James wrote: > > As pnorman has said in the past( https://lists.openstreetmap. > org/pipermail/talk-ca/2016-September/007260.html): > > * Uploaded in small enough parts that the changesets make sense. This >

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

2016-12-22 Thread James
y son tact, look the word up in the dictionary or you'll have Pierre > descending on Ottawa demanding double Lattes. > > Cheerio John > > On 22 December 2016 at 18:40, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Paul, I am aware of conflicts may occur, but seeing as no one maps >

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-03-26 Thread James
rly aligning aerial imagery, so I'm not exactly filled with >> confidence that they should be making widespread changes like they are. >> >> Martijn, I think Telenav needs to stop what they're doing and have a >> careful discussion with us about their plans and editing p

Re: [Talk-ca] Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada Data

2017-04-03 Thread James
As long as the license of the data is compatible with the ODbL, I'd love to help out. I can help you set up the project on the osmcanada tasking manager : tasks.osmcanada.ca so many people could collaborate on this effort. On Apr 3, 2017 12:33 PM, "Anatolijs Venovcevs" <

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

2017-04-03 Thread James
I've made it easier for everyone I sent an email to the local police station about the legalities of turning right at the light vs taking the ramp/turning lane. Hopefully they will answer me. On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > James -- I could not

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa import: deleting existing content

2017-03-31 Thread James
Just an FYI canvec is not the best in Ottawa: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ueWCOgxq2GT0JfTkRnb2JXcTQ/view?usp=drivesdk On Mar 31, 2017 9:37 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > It seems that some of the import users didn't get the “Don't delete > stuff” memo. User

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa import: deleting existing content

2017-03-31 Thread James
wa, there's good data that supercedes this bad data. > > In my opinion these interpolations are actually making Ottawa worse and I > question the necessity of them. > > Cheers, > Kyle > > On Mar 31, 2017 9:48 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just a

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa import: deleting existing content

2017-04-01 Thread James
com> wrote: > On 2017-03-31 10:35 PM, James wrote: > > Your example for building deletion, has 0 building deletion > > > > https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=47337186 > > Ah, linked to the wrong one. This has it: > https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=47

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa import: deleting existing content

2017-04-01 Thread James
Fixed: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/480316853/history & https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/480316854/history On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 6:48 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Could have been a mistake as we told people not to delete buildings. If > building geometry was

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing with Statistics Canada (Ottawa ODL 2.0 is go!)

2017-03-03 Thread James
Thank you scruss for digging up the meeting notes :) On Mar 4, 2017 12:40 AM, "Heather Leson" wrote: Fantastic. Happy open data day! On 4 Mar 2017 04:12, "John Marshall" wrote: > Great news > > On Mar 3, 2017 9:16 PM, "Stewart C. Russell"

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing with Statistics Canada (Ottawa ODL 2.0 is go!)

2017-03-04 Thread James
Weird there was the same thing yesterday in Ottawa with open.canada.ca On Mar 4, 2017 9:39 AM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > On 2017-03-04 08:20 AM, Bjenk Ellefsen wrote: > > > > We can follow the same steps and workflow in the future if we > potentially move to another city.

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