Re: [Talk-ca] Using ImportImagePlugin in JOSM

Hi Peter, It's been a while since I hand-rolled a world file. If you can, install a recent version of QGis, as it has a truly excellent georeferencer. You click on control points on the bitmap, indicate the coordinates they represent in the real world, then set the system off transforming the

Re: [Talk-ca] User: Acrosscanadatrails wiki.openstreetmap housecleaning effort

On 11-02-02 17:15 , Grant Slater wrote: I've removed the delete tag from these pages. Any more we want to keep? Land Information Ontario needs to stay. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

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

On 11-03-06 00:16 , Samuel Longiaru wrote: OK... access=no, emergency=yes. I'll tag one like that and see what the routing software does after the next update. If it's any consolation, Garmin's maps will suggest u-turns in the middle of highways too. Every time I want to go to Point Edward,

Re: [Talk-ca] Google Map Maker now in Canada

On 11-10-24 10:00 , Connors, Bernie (SNB) wrote: http://m.ctv.ca/topstories/20111024/google-canada-map-maker-request-111024.html#menu I tried it to shift some hilariously misplaced local shops. The UI is terrible, and very slow. Stewart ___

Re: [Talk-ca] What your favorite map projection says about you...

On 11-11-14 23:41 , Colin McGregor wrote: Geek humor, a cartoon about what your favorite map projection says about you: http://xkcd.com/977/ Me, I've gone Postel ... [Actually, that comment is semi-serious. I'm looking at reprojecting world map data into azimuthal equidistant projection

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

On 11-12-02 16:07 , Richard Weait wrote: So let's start treating external like we treat aerial imagery. Let's don't, and say we did. For much of Canada, aerials aren't useful. Look at, say, Elliot Lake: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.3846lon=-82.6852zoom=13layers=M - aerials don't

Re: [Talk-ca] Samoa Cyclone Simulation, Humanitarian OpenstreetMap

On 11-12-03 09:25 , Pierre Béland wrote: SAMOA SIMULATION Saturday 3, 2:30 GMT Oh noes! OSM goes all ARES!! Stewart ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

On 11-12-03 10:18 , Gerald A wrote: I think there might have been a misread here -- I don't believe Richard was saying that we should only _use_ aerials Nor did I mean that. If you're doing a foot and GPS survey of somewhere, and there's nothing on OSM, and there's no useful aerials or other

Re: [Talk-ca] Amateur Radio Maps...

If anyone's confused about what these maps would look like, I have some examples here: http://glaikit.org/2011/12/11/not-really-getting-the-azimuthal-equidistant-projection-right/ They were made with the not-exactly free AZ_PROJ, a utility written entirely in PostScript. For a great (but

[Talk-ca] Toronto Open Data

It looks like the City of Toronto Open Data might now be usable in OSM. I haven't received chapter and verse from anyone at the city, but a statement like this would seem to be acceptable: Contains public sector Datasets made available under the City of Toronto's Open Data Licence v2.0.

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Open Data

On 12-02-12 14:01 , john whelan wrote: It would be nice to bring in the Ottawa bus stops which are available under Ottawa's whatever but an opinion has been expressed that the Canadian cities open data is not licensed in a way that can be used by OSM. Toronto has recently changed its licence.

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

I've notice a few ways in OSM like this one: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/39334713 that really shouldn't be in the database. They're GeoBase imports via the NRN. They're not tagged in any way that would allow removal. There is no public access on these roads. They're mostly gated

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

On 12-03-19 19:45 , Paul Norman wrote: I'd just retag as highway=service, but it definitely belongs in the DB if there's a road or path there, just not tagged like it is. But it's not a highway, which implies access. There is no access. The particular one I tagged, given the amount of

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

On 12-03-19 21:52 , Harald Kliems wrote: I'd like to add, though, that there is a problem with verifiability here. If you can't access a highway and it's not visible on aerial imagery then how can verify it's actually there? They're definitely not visible on orthophotos. Most of rural

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

On 12-04-09 11:39 , James Ewen wrote: The quality of GPS receivers are about even these days. Give the unit a good view of the sky and it will tell you where you are. My experience with phone GPSs is different. The tracks I've got from two phones - a Blackberry Tour and an iPhone 4s - are

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

On 12-04-15 11:09 , Richard Weait wrote: Dear All, Let's talk about it again. How do we feel about the bulk copying of information from a permitted source into OpenStreetMap in Canada? Essential, required, epic and amazing. We're a huge sparsely-populated country. It would be impossible to

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

On 12-08-04 02:10 , James Ewen wrote: Could have been worse... it might have been held in Springfield! Pfft ... host it in Franklin, then it could be in any one of 17 states - GA, ID, IN, IA, KY, LA, MA, MN, MO, NE, NH, OH, PA, TN, TX, VA, or WI! Springfield comes in at #5 in the popular city

[Talk-ca] USGS Orthos in Canada

While editing near Leamington ON in Potlatch, I clicked by accident on the Background - OSM US USGS Large Scale Aerial Imagery. It came up with really sharp and recent orthoimagery. It's of similar quality to the SWOOP images I buy at $50/km^2 for work, and covers some areas that Bing doesn't.

Re: [Talk-ca] Region of Waterloo Open Data

Neat! Now, is there a way to *stop* all of the diary entries in Ontario from being reverse-geocoded as being in Waterloo? ;-) Cheers Stewart ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Surrey 2012 imagery

On 12-09-18 23:44 , James Mast wrote: Paul, I'm just curious, but how are you getting this new imagery? Is there a place where new Ontario imagery can be found? The only good stuff I've seen is the SWOOP and SCOOP 25cm imagery that's been flown by a consortium of the MNR and relevant counties.

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

On 01-11-12 03:46 , Paul Norman wrote: I have no idea when Bing would be updating their imagery but if someone can get imagery from some level of government under a suitable license I (or someone else) can host it. The recent (2006, 2010) flights initiated by the provincial MNR and local

Re: [Talk-ca] Callsigns...

On 11-03-13 05:49 , Colin McGregor wrote: Broadcaster data is part of the public record, Industry Canada has downloadable data here: http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/h_sf09484.html (at the moment I don't have a machine that can deal with MapInfo files so I 'm not sure what data is

Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca

On 27-03-13 07:51 , Steve Singer wrote: Another proposal is to let OSMF register the domain and have them point it at a server with whatever we want to do with it. If OSMF owns the domain they could still point it at a community controlled server. Yes, I'd very much support this. The link

Re: [Talk-ca] New OpenStreetMap web editing option now available, call for funding

On 13-05-08 02:54 PM, Paul Norman wrote: Chances are good that this is a bug with HTTPS anywhere and Firefox. If you are using that extension with Firefox, disable the OpenStreetMap Wiki ruleset. See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8841 for the corresponding HTTPS

Re: [Talk-ca] Une proposition: formation du groupe OpenStreetMap Montréal

On 13-06-22 01:14 PM, Richard Weait wrote: … Curious outsiders attend with questions. There we have it: the Toronto OpenStreetMap Enthusiasts perfectly encapsulated in just five words ☺ Any organization we do have is really only to work with/around the limitations of meetup.com. There's

Re: [Talk-ca] Where the streets have no name...

On 13-11-03 05:19 PM, Harald Kliems wrote: (who's currently in Toronto and marveling at OSM's data quality downtown!) Shops on Bloor can always do with a checkup. They have a very high turnover rate, and some of them haven't been revised since 2010. cheers, Stewart

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Government License - Canada

On 13-11-03 11:28 PM, Paul Norman wrote: The question that matters for OSM is, can OGL Canada 2.0 datasets be released under the ODbL. Depending on how you access the data, CanVec and many of the data sets used in OSM are provided under the OGL Canada 2.0 licence already. See for instance:

Re: [Talk-ca] Pourquoi les imports doivent être régis

On 14-01-07 12:25 PM, Adam Martin wrote: In all, use of importation for the data should be allowed, but controlled. Those that do it need to be skilled at the process and mindful of the errors in the data. Above all else, they should respect the work of the other mappers in that area. I was

[Talk-ca] Confusing CanVec import: Elliot Lake

Hi - back in Elliot Lake after a couple of years away, and my, has the map grown here. It looks like there has been multiple overlapping imports in some places, though. F'rinstance, this relation: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1176648 has multiple coastlines, an import square bisecting a

Re: [Talk-ca] Confusing CanVec import: Elliot Lake

On 14-08-27 06:23 PM, Andrew wrote: As a rule I don't remove any existing data, unless the data is duplicated and then I try to pick the best one. But deleting my tracing of Horne Lake was okay, though? http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/77445326/history You should have bumped the way version,

Re: [Talk-ca] Confusing CanVec import: Elliot Lake

On 14-08-28 01:44 AM, James Ewen wrote: OSM is a living entity that changes. I know this, James. But an edit should change the map for the better. There were trails along Horne Lake, trails with boardwalks and bridges that I walked and mapped by hand. But that work's gone — foom! — replaced

Re: [Talk-ca] Large polygons in JOSM

On 14-09-15 05:41 PM, Daniel Begin wrote: About Canvec, the product often duplicates water bodies and inner polygons of wooded areas; which is not necessary where both were imported. In order to keep only the necessary geometries, I usually transfer all the tags from a waterbody to the

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian Openstreetmap Task Manager + Central Website

On 14-10-24 08:36 PM, Richard Burcher wrote: [3] http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/ Great initiative! Never seen Tasking Manager before, but it looks a solid platform for breaking down and logging tasks. Maybe though on http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/7 “addr:postcode = (Collect from CanadaPost)”

[Talk-ca] mystery opendata:type numeric tags popping up in Ontario

In editing data around Toronto, I'm seeing a bunch of entities with numeric opendata:type tags. They seem to have some kind of relation to the type of feature being mapped, but only a loose one: * 109001 → amenity=place_of_worship * 107009 → amenity=library * 104008 → building=office

Re: [Talk-ca] RIP CanVec

On 14-11-17 03:53 PM, Ga Delap wrote: - CanVec a introduit des erreurs de modélisation en imposant dans OSM le concept de tuile plutôt qu'en respectant celui de l'objet. Amen to that. Is there any way to de-tile the data? I realise that most of Canada is one giant water relation, but is

Re: [Talk-ca] RIP CanVec

On 14-11-17 09:44 PM, Paul Norman wrote: I looked at this, but it's better to go back to the original sources, particularly now that CanVec is no longer being updated. But the source shape files are tiled too, no? I seem destined to work on projects that straddle multiple NTS tiles. cheers,

Re: [Talk-ca] Region of York Data Imports

On 14-11-29 10:37 AM, Piper, Stephanie wrote: Hello, I work for the Region of York and we want to add our data to Open Street Map. All data that we are adding is available under our Open Data portal and is licensed through our Open Data license and is available for unlimited use and reuse.

Re: [Talk-ca] Adding Buildings + Leisure + Corrections To Ottawa Map Over Holiday Season

On 2014-12-23 12:27 PM, Richard Burcher wrote: - I've removed the mention of postcode collection. I'm not sure of the legal aspect of collection as raised in an earlier thread. I've found that if you add an address without a postal code, then query Nominatim later, it returns the postal code.

Re: [Talk-ca] HOT in Canada

Hi Heather, … They have an organization who would like to help support a Missing Maps event in Canada Is this remote mapping, or would it be considered ‘in country’? The state of some of the northern communities in Canada is a disaster, and it makes me ashamed to be Canadian. Stewart

Re: [Talk-ca] Help Importing York Region Data to OpenStreetMap

On 2015-01-28 11:14 PM, Richard Weait wrote: You should not proceed with this import. The plan description on the wiki has several show-stopper problems. If anyone was wondering about context, here's the plan: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yorkregion_GIS/York_Region_Data_Imports It has

Re: [Talk-ca] duplicate address data

Hi Gerd, I don't care much about special cases. I'd say that rural addressing is between 10-20% of addresses in Ontario. Far from a special case. I wanted to point out that the OSM data base for Canada contains a huge amount of - useless data like duplicated addr:interpolation ways including

[Talk-ca] local spam locations from user BitcoinMaps

Hi, Following on from a comment on /talk//-scotland/ about bitcoin-related spam appearing on the map, I had a dig around locally in Toronto. It seems that there's a user *BitcoinMaps* who is either randomly placing business locations on the map, or is using a really terrible algorithm to place

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-scotland] local spam locations from user BitcoinMaps

Hi Gregory, * No discussion started, might aswell check the user link now to just be sure the API isn't explained on the profile. * No profile text, diary = 0, but blocks received = 1, hmm... http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/611 Ah, Frederik might've put that block in after I sent a

Re: [Talk-ca] duplicate address data

Hi Gerd, I've tried the latest data for Ontario. Addressing in Canada is a little bit, um, /special/. And I say that as someone born in the UK, a country famous for its ultra-baroque addressing. The important thing I've learned about addresses here is that postal address ≠ civic address. City

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto OpenStreetMap events May 2015

On 2015-05-11 06:45 AM, Richard Weait wrote: OpenStreetMap presentation by Stewart Russell Tuesday 12 May 2015 http://gtalug.org/meeting/2015-05/ - Formal presentation including Question and Answer. Eep! Formal, is it? I don't think that anyone's ever called anything I've ever done ‘formal’.

Re: [Talk-ca] Data import

On 2015-06-23 08:30 PM, Adam Martin wrote: … I suggest contacting one of the OSM contributors that have imported large amounts of data before to get the 411 on possible problems and such. Also, read and follow the guidelines here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines This

Re: [Talk-ca] Ref tags in Ontario

Hi Kevin Andrewpmk (almost entirely him) and I reversed all of the ON prefixes to the 400-Series highways Many thanks to you both for doing that. Personally I don't think there should be any prefix for rendering or navigation purposes, but I guess it depends on whether you think county or

Re: [Talk-ca] Looking for competent OSM editors to improve the map on Toronto area and Toronto PATH

Hi George, I have a few employers who are dedicating part of their funding to improve the map on Toronto and Toronto PATH, specially. This is a funded effort. How much of this funding will flow through to the mappers doing the work? This sharing economy can go *both* ways, too. More

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

Hi James, but I did receive approval from the city that we could import data from data.ottawa.ca/dataset http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset. Which I documented here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Permission I'm not a legal expert, but I think that OSM would have

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

Hi James — What should I tell Stephen, to change the license for just OSM or in whole? For simplicity, they'd need to change the licence for everyone. A special carve-out for OSM alone would be fraught with problems. Ideally, they'd chose a licence that isunencumbered, like CC0 or PDDL. Any

[Talk-ca] more auto-edits from bitcoin types: coindero.com

Hi all, User Coindero https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Coindero is allowing non-registered edits via Coindero.com http://www.coindero.com/. For instance, to edit Snakes Lattes in Toronto, you'd go here: http://www.coindero.com/edit/snakes-lattes/ Set login source to 'custom', and you can

Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

The definition of ‘trunk’ is a difficult one, if based on the UK understanding. Like its unwritten constitution, trunk roads in the UK are more on a know it when I see it basis. Pretty much the only definitions I can think of that would be generally applicable are: * a trunk road goes from one

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data Imports

On 2015-07-23 11:54 PM, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: It might be helpful to look at http://openaddresses.io/ which is an project to aggregate address data from various open data portals. I'm a little confused by http://openaddresses.io's licensing: they claim CC0 but retain individual contributor

Re: [Talk-ca] Can't merge 2 layers in JOSM

Hi Pierre - > Le 14/11/2015 17:01, Bernard Loyer a écrit : >> Les données que je veux importer dans JOSM viennent de >> : >> http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/toporama/en/index.html >> tel >> que suggéré par

Re: [Talk-ca] Federal licence : Confusion

Hi Bruno, > OpenStreetMaps imports CANVEC data. > CANVEC OpenData are provided by Natural Resources Canada. > All Natural Resources Canada data are subject to the Open Government > Licence – Canada. > > Open Government Licence - Canada

Re: [Talk-ca] Federal licence : Confusion

Hi John - > However my understanding is this was given before the OSM license > change and before the OSM requirement that anything uploaded may have > its license changed by OSM in the future which is contained in the new > contributor's terms for uploading. Does that matter, though? You're

Re: [Talk-ca] Federal licence : Confusion

Hi Paul - > No one has proposed an import of OGL-CA licenced data, so there > shouldn't be any in OSM. That's the licence that any current CanVec uses. So if anyone has imported from shapefiles, then yes, OGL-CA data will be in OSM. There was something on data.gc.ca a while back about OGL-CA

Re: [Talk-ca] Borders of National/Provincial Parcs

Hi Niklas > I would like to work on the borders of national or provincial parks. Great! There already some in the map, though it seems that many provincial parks are tagged as national parks. > Does anyone know the legal situation? There were some imported from NRCan data, which we're allowed

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2

On 2016-01-12 02:37 PM, Mojgan Jadidi wrote: > > Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton, mostly in new subdivision areas. Our > Our conflation methods is based on an in-house algorithm of buffering left > and right sides of the street segments to detect the missing parts … Hi Mojgan - this is what

[Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data

Hey, We had a couple of folks from Metrolinx (the GTHA/Golden Horseshoe transit agency) at the Toronto Mappy Hour last night. Their Triplinx route planner — http://www.triplinx.ca/ — consumes OSM data for addresses. They want to find ways to work with the community to improve addressing in their

[Talk-ca] In regards to Canadian Postal Code data on Geocoder.ca (tangentially related)

Looks like Canada Post have dropped the lawsuit against Ervin Ruci. It still doesn't mean that the PAF is open data yet, but it's significant. >From https://geocoder.ca/?sued=1 — Legal News, May 2016 - In regards to Canadian Postal Code data on Geocoder.ca: Lawsuit Update This is

Re: [Talk-ca] aerial imagery for missing roads

Hi Martijn, > I am wondering if you know of any more recent aerial imagery that may be > available? Or other suggestions to fill in these missing roads? (We have > found many, many cases in Canada alone) We don't have a national mapping agency in Canada that gives everything away for free.

Re: [Talk-ca] Stat Can and buildings

On 2016-06-15 11:01 AM, john whelan wrote: > As a first step Stats would like to know the tags used when mapping > buildings in Canada and the number of times used. … I looked at a small > sample from Ottawa and > noted 127 different tags on buildings including address tags. This might be

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2

On 2016-01-13 09:27 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote: > > I hope OSM is happy to take > address points! I hope they (we?) are too. I suspect ranges suffice for Metrolinx. If you're in a residential area, you have to consider that addresses are within the uncertainty of a GPS device. You might as well use

Re: [Talk-ca] aerial imagery for missing roads

On 2016-06-23 10:26 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > > Going north outside of urban zones, there are many tracks for lumber > areas. Hard to assess the accessibility of such roads for cars. Most logging roads, certainly in BC, are private. While they look large, and make tempting additions to the map,

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca: Bulk Import of Address Range in GTHA from Metrolinx, Second attemps

On 2016-02-09 09:24 AM, Begin Daniel wrote: > > 1 - Stewart is right about questioning the StatsCan license... Mojgan updated the import wiki page yesterday with a note and link to the open.canada.ca Road Network Files - 2015

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca: Bulk Import of Address Range in GTHA from Metrolinx, Second attemps

Hi Mojgan, Thanks for sticking with us! And also for including the sample data as an attachment. One observation: Statistics Canada does not use the Open Government Canada Licence (or even a derivation of it), but its own: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence-eng Although OSM has used

Re: [Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa

Hi John, and all — If this is the GTFS data for Ottawa: http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/oc-transpo-schedules then it's published under the City of Ottawa Open Data - Terms of use: http://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/open-data-terms-use This licence is incompatible with

Re: [Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa

On 2016-02-29 01:25 PM, john whelan wrote: > > It maybe possible to work with the city of Ottawa on this one > but one problem they have identified is open data being used but not > updated. I'm surprised they even see their data being used at all, as it's almost impossible to mix it with any

Re: [Talk-ca] Bulk Import of Address Range in GTHA from Metrolinx

Hi Mojgan, > If the community is agreeable to our approach, we hope to begin this > process sometime next week, but are happy to defer if anyone feels that > there are still unanswered questions. I don't have any lingering questions. Thanks so much for doing this! Let us know if you need help

Re: [Talk-ca] Triplinx import

Okay, so it looks like Paul Norman has started a revert through the DWG. Thanks! The thing is, the data did greatly improve addressing in Toronto. In the areas I looked at, there was careful in-fill with no overlap in address nodes/ranges. My only real annoyance about this import was that it was

Re: [Talk-ca] what looks to be imports in North Vancouver - valid?

Hi Michael > Hi, > > I see a bunch of activities by user Marcott such as this (see comment in > this and other changesets). > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37885113 Thanks for picking up on this. > I also notice this activity breaks connections to existing trails etc. > Also, trails

Re: [Talk-ca] bus stops, post codes and rent-a-crowd

On 2016-03-16 08:34 PM, James wrote: > I already added a request a year ago when UK released theirs, even > emailed the PM candidates at the start of the elections. Can't help > anymore unfortunately You can add multiple comments/requests on the same thread. And given that the government has

Re: [Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa

On 2016-03-01 07:19 AM, john whelan wrote: > > My understanding of the terms and conditions for uploading data is you > have to give permission for OSM to change the license from ODBl. Isn't it more that the OSMF reserves the right to change the licence? Ottawa's share-alike terms are

[Talk-ca] ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca

Looks like with all the shuffling of products, we've finally lost our /OSM/pub folder. Oh well. I guess that, since all the CanVEC data is now available under OGL-CA, the old agreement has been superseded. It would be lovely if everything on ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca were OGL-CA, 'cos there's some

Re: [Talk-ca] Let's map missing turn restrictions in Canada

On 2016-07-20 02:32 PM, Nathan Wessel wrote: > > Someone > on the tagging list suggested changing these to > "restriction:on_red"="no_right_turn", which is what I recently did for > all such restrictions that I could find in greater Toronto. Is this one?

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

On 2016-07-18 04:08 PM, john whelan wrote: > > … for the pilot what they would like > is a few tags adding to existing buildings. These would be things such > as postcode Ooh, lemme order popcorn so I can watch Canada Post sue Statistics Canada for use of "their" precious codes ... Stewart

Re: [Talk-ca] Participating in the OSM forum

Hi Laura, > I was trying to register at the OSM forum. It appears as though new > registrations are closed. Try your OSM user name and password. Mine seemed to work, and I don't think I've ever posted there before. This should really use OAuth, he grumbles uselessly ... Stewart

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

On 2016-08-05 11:08 PM, Laura O'Grady wrote: > I just noticed that there is a project for Ottawa in the Canadian > Tasking Manager [1] called, "#2 - Ottawa Building Update". This looks a little old - it was last used 8 months ago. It also has some unnecessary guidelines, such as adding the

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

Hi John - some great points here. > My understanding is currently he’s looking getting hold of the City of > Ottawa building outline data and making it available to OpenStreetMap > without the current license restriction. This would be wonderful. It would be ideal if the data could be placed on

Re: [Talk-ca] restriction=no_right_turn_on_red causing routing problems in Toronto

On 2016-06-28 04:19 PM, Nathan Wessel wrote: > It seems like conditional restrictions may be what we need. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Conditional_restrictions > > But it looks like we would be forging new ground if we went that > direction. I don't see anything on that page

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

>> Going to wait a few hours to accept replies and afterwards we're going >> to begin the import tonight (EST). > > Please don't do this - LWG is still working on it. I see that, despite the lack of approval from LWG, two users have taken the unilateral step of starting the import: *

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

On 2017-01-22 12:48 PM, James wrote: > > So why is this not considered the exact same as OGL-CA, which is > considered compatible with ODBL? My understanding of why it's not the same: 1) The OGL-CA, due to a fault in its design, can only be used by the Canadian Federal Government. Contrast that

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

On 2017-01-23 01:54 AM, Denis Carriere wrote: > There's been a lot of discussion on the license, however has anyone read > the documentation on the import yet? Read it? My mucky paw-prints are all over the edit history of the article and its talk page. So I know I've read it, at least. Couple of

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing with Statistics Canada

Hi James - > Yet it's the same as the Vancouver one that has been approved, and had > data imported Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the way that OSM needs to work. The licences aren't the same: you can't use Vancouver's agreement to bind the City of Ottawa, and the Federal agreement

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

Hi Denis, > We've already imported data under the City of Ottawa license, all of the > OC Transpo bus stop (minus a few in the downtown core). Yes, I meant to ask: where was the announcement/discussion of the OC Transpo import on this list? Where's the wiki process page? The imports seem to have

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing with Statistics Canada

Hi Bjenk, > Most participants here agree that open data initiatives exist so that > we, the public, organizations including OSM, everyone can use the > data. The OSM project can't accept data that might have hidden licensing issues that might jeopardize OSM's existence. All new licenses are

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing with Statistics Canada

Hi Bjenk - > I am not sure why there is confusion about Ottawa's ODL and it's > equivalence to OGL because the information is public but here it is to > clarify: > > "The Open Data License is based on version 2.0 of the “Open Government > Licence – Canada” which was developed through public

Re: [Talk-ca] Community Conduct

I know that the issue is settled and the affected edits based on Carleton's data have been reverted, but I got this response from their GIS and Digital Resources Librarian today: … the air photos are not permitted for use other than academic use, and OpenStreetMap does not qualify. …

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap at the Crossroads – The Map Room

This week's weeklyOSM has a bit about an over-zealous robot from Facebook: Imports * The Data Working Group (DWG) has reverted Facebook’s undiscussed import of poor quality autorecognized

Re: [Talk-ca] unnamed roads

On 2016-09-01 06:43 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > A correct example link is http://maproulette.org/map/342/362184 rather > than the one in my previous message. Due to a bug in either MapRoulette > or Leaflet you would need to zoom out 1 level to see the map context. Yeah, I'm getting no

Re: [Talk-ca] Qualiuty of OSM data

On 2016-08-31 06:31 PM, Adam Martin wrote: > I would also like to take a read through that document. Sounds interesting. It *may* have been this one: “Node location anomaly — Jochen Topf” but I may be misremembering. > A giant

Re: [Talk-ca] Annexation/amalgamation of towns/villages in Canada

On 2016-09-02 12:02 PM, yegbin wrote: > > As Beverly no longer exists, is it best practice to delete this node or is > there a better way to tag it? It shouldn't be in the map if it can't be verified on the ground. As to tagging, please delete the gns:* tags and especially the is_in tag. That

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

On 2016-09-01 09:05 AM, Begin Daniel wrote: > > - Run a better version of the preprocessor on the Canvec raw data and > reimport them again? Not possible. Canvec data has been produced and > renew between 2010 and 2012 by our national mapping agency (NRCan). > The product is now static (no

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

On 2016-08-30 09:18 AM, James wrote: > He's even going to revert my work: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/41776742 > I've forwarded this to the DWG, it's getting rediculous. Using a dedicated account for imports is one of the few "musts". Nakaner may be being a little officious here, but

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

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 Ottawa with Overpass, and both have the offending capitalisation. Both were modified recently by LogicalViolinist in changesets 42331565 and

[Talk-ca] Canada Post mailbox locations

Hi - I was surprised to find out today that Canada Post doesn't publish a list/map of mailbox locations. Have they ever done so in the past? (I realize that such a list wouldn't likely be open data, but I was just surprised that OSM might be a fairly comprehensive source.) cheers, Stewart

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

On 2016-09-14 05:15 PM, john whelan wrote: > http://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/open-data-licence-version-20 This is very neat! I noticed it yesterday, but was too jetlagged from XOXO to say anything. > It should now be aligned with the Federal Government one so that should > mean we

Re: [Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

Hi John, > I would like to purpose OSM uses the same standard as this Wikipedia > Article. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communities_in_Nunavut Seems reasonable. > I really believe that *name=** should be written in english (Community). It's certainly more consistent than using

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

Hi Charles - > Would you mind educating me? I'm not very good with the overpass API. I > just tried and only got 3 ways in the Montréal area (indeed service > roads) with "source=improve_osm_tn". What's a good query? This (short link) query pulls up over 1900. Most of them are outside the

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