Re: [Talk-ca] Ongoing Canadian building import needs to be stopped, possibly reverted

Along the lines of what Jarek said, sometimes silence just means tacit acceptance, or that it's not that controversial. There's quite a bit of government data here that is supposedly "open" but unavailable for OSM, so I'm very glad Stats Can was able to find a way to collect municipal data and

Re: [Talk-ca] Terminating British Columbia Mosaic imagery

Thanks for providing this great service for the Lower Mainland for so long Paul! It's been an invaluable resource for mapping in the area. I would note that Richmond still does not have very good imagery from any provider. BC Mosaic is far clearer and has better angles, but as you mentioned, it's

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek Mapathons

The ESRI layer in BC is now pretty good as well, and has the latest orthophotography from all the cities with open data (and a few that don't). Much easier than manually collecting from each municipality. Generally this is still the urban cities and town, and not rural areas of course though.

Re: [Talk-ca] Using City of Vancouver Open Licensed Data?

There is some information on the wiki here. https://wiki.openstreetmap. org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia:Vancouver#GIS_sources_by_city. Special permission was obtained from the city for certain datasets only. On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:09 AM, john whelan wrote: > I

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada building project

It's still a different license for each city, province, or organisation, and the current opinion is that each different license needs to go through the same multi-month review to be approved for OSM. On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 3:48 PM, john whelan wrote: > T.B. have what

Re: [Talk-ca] Esri Canada Community Maps

Neat. Thanks Stewart. I see this pulls in a bunch of the local city open data for orthography that I'd been using. Easier than trying to look them up yourself and you don't have to worry about the license either. alarobric (alan) On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Stewart C. Russell

Re: [Talk-ca] Ferry durations

Are there any ferry routes without duration left? That overpass query shows all the common ferry routes I know offhand in the province. Alan On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:57 AM, wrote: > Hi all, > > Just to let you know, my map team colleagues have been adding a few > `duration`

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

Thanks for a good workflow - I cleared up 8 so far pretty quickly around Hope, BC. There's a bunch in a cluster around Merritt too. I'm guessing it's certain imports or import authors vs others that makes the difference. alarobric On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Stewart C. Russell

Re: [Talk-ca] importing data requiring attribution

our license requirements. > I also ask that whatever statement you are prepared to make can be made > public for information purposes. > Below is a fact sheet. If you would like any more information, I will do > my best to help or can ask our project's License Working Group to get in > t

Re: [Talk-ca] importing data requiring attribution

>From what I've seen so far, the opinion seems to be that the OGL-BC devived licenses like this one require a statement about the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. This was done for the City of Vancouver license, and I've just recently recieved an update from the City of New

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

a JOSM layer then using the Bing image layer to >> confirm they are brought into OSM manually. My understanding is any >> building outlines that clash with an existing building in OSM daily dump >> have been removed from the import file. Any added in the previous 24 hours

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

Most BC cities seem to be using a version of the OGL-BC now as well. This is similar to the OGL-CA with references to BC privacy and FOI laws, similar to the Ontario changes mentioned earlier. This business of having to get explicit permission for each dataset from each government entity is a bit

Re: [Talk-ca] Open data in Canada

I've previously documented the Lower Mainland ones here as well: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia:Vancouver#GIS_sources_by_city Maybe some of this should be moved to your table. Note the OGL-BC which many of these cities are based on seems to have some potential problems

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

I like it overall. Nice to see more quality data being added, and I'm personally pretty pro-import generally. However, just from following this list, I was surprised that the import was suddenly being done. I recall seeing messages about the possibility of a project, and it sounded like it was

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

I agree with Frederik here. New imports need to make sure they follow the import guidelines, including using a dedicated import account. The wiki information could all be cleaned up, consolidated, and then new users would know the current status and process for importing new information. For

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

Generally some of the polygons can be later merged across the boundaries into less square shapes, but it can be complicated and slow work. Personally, I'm still unclear on whether CanVec importing is still going on? Is the data still available and updated? Most of what I can find on the wiki is

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

I believe these are the result of importing Canvec landuse data for some areas and not for others. Because the data is in square chunks, you end up with these unnatural looking squares on the map. Really it's just a case of the other areas don't have detail yet. Across the border it looks like

Re: [Talk-ca] Bike trail name check - Vancouver area

I believe that's correct. I've seen it as Severed D and C-Buster before as well.  On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:45 AM -0700, "Blake Girardot" wrote: Perhaps someone with some local knowledge could look into the name of this bike trail and some of the surrounding

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

Most forest service roads in BC are not private. They may be built by private logging companies and may occasionally be gated, but the majority are on crown land and are open for recreational use. Road conditions vary wildly and roads are often unmaintained if active logging is not in progress