Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33:09AM -0500, Andrew Allison wrote: Hello: I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data. What areas need to be replaced? -- James (Jay) Treacy tre...@debian.org ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Balloon Mapping

Here's the link to the regulations about flying kites and markings... http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/standards/general-recavi-exemption605_20-appa-2260.htm -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] Aboriginal Lands

reasons to merge areas like wooded areas or lakes that are broken up? Any reason NOT to merge them? -- James (Jay) Treacy tre...@debian.org ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Closed Road Tagging

the classification of the highway. Obviously a 2 year closure is much longer than a couple weeks, but until the government decides to abandon the roadway, it would still be a primary highway. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Re : Duplicated ways

rendering engine with a specific style sheet. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Re : Duplicated ways

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:05 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: Have a look at how Freemap takes care of rendering multiple layers of types of ways... http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/about.html Here's another site that caters to hiking and biking. http://hikebikemap.de/?zoom=16lat

Re: [Talk-ca] Wind farm access roads that really shouldn't be in OSM

and used by those authorized. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Wind farm access roads that really shouldn't be in OSM

of importing data was to help fill in the areas where there are no OSM mappers. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Wind farm access roads that really shouldn't be in OSM

project. If there were gates on the map, and the road marked as private, I wouldn't have tried to use it as a shortcut to save myself a 20 mile round about road trip. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] Low end smart phones and Open Street Map...

are about even these days. Give the unit a good view of the sky and it will tell you where you are. I plug mine into the cigar lighter and toss it on the dash of the F-250 while driving down the road. It does a decent job of grabbing location data. -- James VE6SRV

[Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

morphs into Cartographer's Terror. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- James (Jay) Treacy tre...@debian.org

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM on CBC - Monday (plus français)

Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:28:14 -0400 From: rich...@weait.com To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] OSM on CBC - Monday (plus français) Hi all, I'm told that there will be an OSM story on CBC tomorrow (Monday, 30 April 2012) in several places. 6h20 metro morning. (Toronto

Re: [Talk-ca] CBC English; no - françias; oui

Maybe they will run the English one tomorrow. I know I was up and waiting for it @ 6:20AM, but all I heard was the Toronoto Traffic Report. :( ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] CBC English; no - françias; oui

Nothing @ 6:20 AM this morning about OSM. :( Instead @ 6:25 AM, they are talking about Google StreetView... ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] CBC English; no - françias; oui

It's on NOW!!http://www.cbc.ca/video/radio-popup.html#/networkKey=cbc_radio_oneprogramKey=torontoURL might only work well with Firefox. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Re : Coastline rendering in Quebec

mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- James (Jay) Treacy tre...@debian.org ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Oil Pipeline?

of one that does personally, but it would be easy to create one. There's a lot of stuff in the database that doesn't get rendered on the default Mapnik map style. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec in Potlatch 2

have my cake, but I get to eat it as well... I think there's even icing on it these days! Thanks for all the work you do making these tools so easy to use and integrated so well! -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging ways

not be using the correct search terms though. -- James VE6SRV On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:15 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, how do I accomplish this task? I drew the outline of Wolf Lake by hand quite a while ago. I also imported the water features from CanVec as well. Now there are three

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging ways

if they can code it up for you. I guess that truly would be the icing on my cake that I'm eating then! -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Edmonton OSM gathering

together to share some ideas. If you're interested, speak up. If we get at least two interested people, we can figure out a common location to meet up, sit and have a chat. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton OSM gathering

random site. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] [talk-ca] Merging ways

in the end, you do end up merging two sections together just as above. There may be more things to do afterwards, but just automating the merge task would be super! -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton OSM gathering

be interested in attending myself. Yup, you are the only one that I know from the area that's on here, but there may be others lurking that may come out of the woodwork. What would work out better for you? Weekday evening or a weekend event? -- James VE6SRV

Re: [Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM?

. Without the CanVec data, the map would still be looking pretty bleak! -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton OSM gathering

. Smith in the coming weeks... wanna meet halfway? -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Creating a relation

in the lake: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/170179004 and http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/170179009 What would be making it impossible to create a lake with two islands with Potlatch2? -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Redaction bot is heading our way!

I just happened to load up the progress page for the bot, and it's entered Mexico overnight. Just thought I would give all of you fellow North America mappers a heads up. ;) http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/license-change/botprocessing.php -James

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] SOTM US Portland - Call for participation

Could have been worse... it might have been held in Springfield! James VE6SRV On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have a story or project to share at State Of The Map US, Portland Oct 13-14? Now is the time to submit your abstract! ... See you

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec imports allowed again?

of damaged areas around here that need to be repaired, but it's a waste of time doing so if the bot is still running. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] News: Google mapping the North

Here's another link if you're having problems viewing the first. http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/08/google-maps-heads-northway-north.html?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FSbSV+%28Google+LatLong%29 --James

Re: [Talk-ca] Surrey 2012 imagery

extension around Parry Sound; ON-69 South of Sudbury; and ON-11 between Emsdale and South River). Bing for those areas is either out-of-date, or there is no good imagery at all to use. --James From: penor...@mac.com To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:47:45 -0700 Subject

Re: [Talk-ca] Suivi OSM / OSM Monitoring

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I see that Canada is pretty good at the admin2 (Country) level, and the admin4 level (Regions) except for a few islands in the Hudson and James Bay areas. It looks like BC has had the admin6 (Departments) level imported

Re: [Talk-ca] Demande de vérification, question concernant name=

, or that the locals don't speak English, but rather I feel inadequate in that I can't communicate properly myself in the native language. However, it sure would be nice to be able to pull up an OSM map and have the option to be able to change all the street names from Spanish to English. -- James

Re: [Talk-ca] Bing Map of Guelph, Ontario is poor

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Of course someone could always purchase imagery, but that can get pricey. And you could still be out of luck due to restrictions in the license of the photography as well. -- James VE6SRV

Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton / Strathcona boundary limits

to ensure were part of the map. James VE6SRV On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr wrote: James, For such matters, it is important that contributors assure coordination and use the same rules. This is more a OSM technical problem were OSM has to take

Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton / Strathcona boundary limits

municipalities. I'm not sure what the status is across the whole of Canada. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Internal CanVec conflicts

A really simple answer that gets lost is this: Did you make the edits to the best of your ability, and your edits add value to the OSM project? If so, then it was the right thing to do. We all bring different levels of ability, and may not do things perfectly according to the experts, but if

Re: [Talk-ca] GPS inaccuracy

This isn't just an issue for OSM... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20442487 James VE6SRV On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote: Tom wrote: I'm getting the feeling that, short of a definitive survey, a good map is a matter of careful judgement. I

Re: [Talk-ca] GPS inaccuracy

. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Additional Disgardable Geobase tags

anymore and could possibly be discarded automatically by JOSM when the uploads happen.( Example way that has both tags: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/55549095 ) What do you guys think about this? --James

Re: [Talk-ca] Fredericton WMS Offset

much the same thing. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released

database? I have a interest in having access to data such as this along with other similar virtual boundaries. It would make sense to have a common repository of such information rather than recreating it over and over again. Is there such a facility available currently? -- James VE6SRV

Re: [Talk-ca] Out of date or incomplete NRCan-CanVec-7.0 data

, but something like the out of date residential area in Landmark Manitoba should be updated, not removed. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Out of date or incomplete NRCan-CanVec-7.0 data

explanation. Oh Tony, we're just scratching the surface so far! Now you need to go back add the commercial areas, fix all those bad CanVec building outlines etc... There's always more to do in OSM! :) -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Callsigns...

transmitter information. Wikipedia says that the text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, but was the information included there derived from an open source? -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Callsigns...

as a source. If however the data is included in the database, potential new users may be drawn to the dataset. It's the old chicken vs. the egg situation, a catch-22. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] My Android tablet

of the building. Complex building shapes are harder to plot using this technique, but you can extrapolate some of the wall locations using this process. -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing tool for openstreetmap.ca?

shortcut on gravel to save 40 miles on pavement. It's pretty tough to teach a computer to be as wishy-washy as a human! -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing tool for openstreetmap.ca?

have a chance at knowing where to send you. It's a challenge to determine whether the routing engine or the database is to blame for the routing choices. With OSM, we have access to the database, and only ourselves to blame if the information required is not in the database! :) -- James VE6SRV

[Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

Anybody want to import this town? It's completely missing in OSM data except for {66}. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/note/32942 -James ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:15 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: Anybody want to import this town? It's completely missing in OSM data except for {66}. Why ask someone else to import the town? OSM makes it possible for everyone and anyone to edit the map. That's one of the main

Re: [Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

as I've ever gone). So, in other words, I wanted to leave it to somebody that knows the Canvec data better as I've never done an import. -James Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 19:04:53 -0600 From: ve6...@gmail.com To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely

Re: [Talk-ca] Why does a search for Edmonton show the city out in the country?

email response, a real live person! -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] exit_to vs destination

the following pages: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/22419 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/23369 -James From: marti...@telenav.com Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:58:37 -0600 To: talk...@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-us] exit_to vs destination Hi all, http

[Talk-ca] Bing updated imagery in Windsor, Ontario

Just wanted to give you guys a heads up in anybody wanted to do a massive cleanup of the new 401 construction in that area. According to JOSM, the imagery Bing now has is about 3 months old taken between 05/31/14 and 06/15/14. So, if anybody feels like having some fun, have at it. ;) -James

Re: [Talk-ca] Postal Codes

time figuring out the line of distinction between encumbered and unencumbered information sources. James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] ON prefix on Ontario highways

the higher number series used to be under municipal jurisdiction, now it's provincial. Badging is still the same as before the juggle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alberta_provincial_highways James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario

I've been noticing that a user has been adding the prefix of 'ON' to the ref tags on ways recently in Ontario. Are you starting to do that now, or is this user in error with the current tagging practices? -James

Re: [Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario

to the mailing list. Hopefully he'll respond back to me or post here. For all I know, he could be the same user above with a new account as he added the 'ON' back to the ref tag on the 400 [2]. He's also had QEW edits reverted 'TWICE' where he added the 'ON' to the ref tag. [3] -James [1] - https

Re: [Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario

they have done for all of the US state highways. [2] They base the rendering of shields off of the 'ref' tag, not relations, mainly because most states don't have all of their relations done yet either (all US highways and Interstates in all states are already done). -James [1] - https

Re: [Talk-ca] ON prefix

to the [talk-ca] list and talk about it. Plus I do honestly think both North American Highways and osm_validation_and_improvements are the same person. Use the same version of JOSM, and same 'source' tag on the changesets. -James From: rickmastfa...@hotmail.com To: andrew...@gmail.com; talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] ON prefix

If this is the 2nd time he's done it, I'd report him to the DWG. -James Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:50:06 -0400 From: andrew...@gmail.com To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] ON prefix User:osm_validation_and_improvements made mechanical edits to add the ON prefix to Ontario

Re: [Talk-ca] Highway 400A

You could always add the '400A' part to the 'unsigned_ref' tag because of it being mentioned in the traffic volume documents. -James Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 07:14:52 -0700 From: berniejconn...@gmail.com To: andersontris...@hotmail.com CC: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Highway

[Talk-ca] Changeset 35565180

I've already left a message on the changeset of this user, so that base has been covered. -James [1] = <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/165600/> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/165600/ [http://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/osm_logo_256-835a859acf0d378e1d14e88b15e7b4b952

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

they were replacing on Pine Creek Road (well since completed) that was on the other side of the intersection. -James From: Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> Sent: Monday, April 3, 2017 1:18:38 PM To: James Mast Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org; OSM US Subje

Re: [Talk-ca] Telenav mapping turn restrictions

be completely legal and would be prevented if a false relation were to be added here. This is just something you can't be 100% sure of without visiting it in person, or have imagery from something like Mapillary to see it. So, I can see why Andrew was upset about this. -James [1] https

[Talk-ca] Canadian Arctic Island Naming Languages

(or names in the indigenous languages). Sincerely, James -- James Badger E.I.T. Research Associate GeoSensorWeb Lab Department of Geomatics Engineering Schulich School of Engineering University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 http://sensorweb.geomatics.ucalgary.ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian Arctic Island Naming Languages

Thanks James and John for the info. We are running our own Mapnik rendering server and I will look into the options for displaying specific languages as labels. I will also look into adding the alternate language tags with help from the Arctic Institute. Sincerely, James Badger On Jul 6

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