Re: [Talk-ca] mapping Ottawa light rail stations.

2020-11-24 Thread James
I don't think osmand handles elevators, there's a issue open on github to support indoor mapping, but it's been flagged as a "nice to have" On Tue., Nov. 24, 2020, 7:22 p.m. John Whelan, wrote: > Today I wanted to use OSMAND+ to work out the by foot from Lyon station to > 60 Cambridge street.

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

2020-07-07 Thread James
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines Usually involves creating a wiki page like https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ottawa/Import/Plan outlining that licensing isnt an issue and what tags would be used(addr:housenumber and addr:street for address points) as well as contigency

Re: [Talk-ca] NRCan lakes

2020-07-07 Thread James
I don't think canvec is updating these things on a regular basis, OSM after corrections are usually more accurate than canvec anyways and doubt would update data from Canvec to fix outdated data On Tue., Jul. 7, 2020, 11:27 a.m. Hannes Röst, wrote: > Dear Adam and Daniel > > Thanks a lot, so

Re: [Talk-ca] (no subject)

2020-07-07 Thread James
If it becomes over 2000 nodes in a single "way" or shape, it's recommended to make it a multipolygon. The reason NRCan does this is probably because it's on the edge of what they call "NTS Tiles" which is a grid that organizes the data (see forests in Canada

Re: [Talk-ca] WikiProject Canada Post - franchise assessment

2020-06-16 Thread James
if the addresses are not geolocated via say the website/google maps, it just becomes public domain as it's the address of the business on the website but IANAL. If not you would never be able to scrape/collect phone numbers or addresses for any business via their official website. On Tue., Jun.

Re: [Talk-ca] Business data in northern Montreal

2020-06-14 Thread James
Man when you're north of the 25 in Montreal, it's either because you live there or you are on your way to Québec City. Not a lot going on in the northern tip of the island On Sun., Jun. 14, 2020, 4:43 a.m. David Nelson via Talk-ca, < talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > As part of my efforts to

Re: [Talk-ca] Ça reste ouvert

2020-04-10 Thread James
Personellement je trouve ça vraiement innutile, car dans 4 mois ou presque, ces tags seront désuets et grossira la db pour rien. Il serait plus simple de prendre les reglements tel que pharmacie ou épicerie et les combiner avec les tags OSM tel que amenity=pharmacy et faire du post processing

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

2020-04-03 Thread James
I mapped most the sidewalks in Ottawa with another person and we did it as part of the community, no strings attached. On Fri., Apr. 3, 2020, 4:26 p.m. Martin Chalifoux via Talk-ca, < talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Nate, when reading this and other comments I try to figure who puts those >

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

2020-04-03 Thread James
al are bicycle=yes as they come under municipal regulation >>> but a sidewalk on a highway comes under provincial legislation which bans >>> bicycles on sidewalks. Sparks street is fun I think you are not permitted >>> to ride your bicycle but I'm unsure if this i

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

2020-04-03 Thread James
In the UK they are banned by law but in certain cities the Chief Constable > has stated the law will not be enforced within the police force boundaries > as a letter of interpretation. It might be nice for Ottawa to do the same > sometime but there again we have City of Ottawa police, OP

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging sidewalks as separate ways and issues with bicycle routing

2020-04-03 Thread James
I don't think it's more tagging for the renderer as much as it's being more specific(more data) to specify a abstract view: without knowledge of Canadian/Provincial/Municipal laws about biking on sidewalks. I think Montreal and Gatineau are more enforced as Ottawa it is illegal to bike on the

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-03-10 Thread James
cument the procedure in the wiki. > > > > Daniel > > > > *From:* James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 10, 2020 10:38 > *To:* Daniel @jfd553 > *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada > > > &g

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-03-10 Thread James
. Daniel @jfd553, wrote: > Hi James, > > That is too bad, but there is no rush at this stage because we are simply > refining the import procedure. In the meantime, I propose to act as “Task > manager”. I can provide some tiles (task frame and orthogonalized > buildings’ footprint)

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-03-09 Thread James
o have contributed buildings in the past 5 years. It > is a GO for the two people who have answered me so far. > > I’ll wait others’ answer for the next two weeks and once the task will be > set up (James is on it), I will start importing. I expect most of > experienced JOSM

Re: [Talk-ca] Grand-Montréal Utilisation de sidewalk pour cartographier pistes multi-usage

2020-03-09 Thread James
Je said pas si c'est pareil les MUPs à mtl qu'Ottawa/Gatineau(asphalte avec ligne jaune dedans), mais nous le taggeons comme ceci: https://github.com/BikeOttawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide#Off-Road highway =path

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-02-15 Thread James
if you have data and the extents I can setup tasks(send them to me somehow) On Sat., Feb. 15, 2020, 5:07 p.m. Daniel @jfd553, wrote: > Bonjour groupe, > > I should soon be able to feed the task manager with tiles containing no > more than 200 buildings each. > > > > I will be using a Quadtree

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-17 Thread James
and could > not be achieve quickly, I would assume. One way of making sure that this > is dealt with diligently, would be setting the tasking manager to > 'experienced mappers only'. We would have to ask James, who is in charge > of the Canada Tasking Manager, how to edit/set up the 'exp

Re: [Talk-ca] FW: Re: Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-15 Thread James
ies! > > Now, about... > > *a) Data hosting:* > > Thank you James, I really appreciate your offer (and that of others). So > yes, I think hosting pre-processed data in the task manager, for approved > regions, is an attractive offer. When we agree on a municipality for > pre-

Re: [Talk-ca] FW: Re: Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-15 Thread James
Stats Can hosts it obviously. As for processed data, I can host it in the tasking manager for approved regions. On Wed., Jan. 15, 2020, 8:35 a.m. Daniel @jfd553, wrote: > Bonjour Groupe, > > Concerning the proposal (ODB import), there are questions that remain > before moving forward; here are

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-04 Thread James
Tell me when and where and the tasking manager project for xyz location will be setup and hosted On Sat., Jan. 4, 2020, 12:42 p.m. Daniel @jfd553, wrote: > Bonjour groupe > > > > Looks like we're going in the same direction so far :-) > > I agree with Nate regarding the implementation of the

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-12-24 Thread James
wasn't there talk about this before and someone blocked it because of non-square buildings and the resulting discussion was that each community was going to decide if they want to import or not? On Tue., Dec. 24, 2019, 1:26 p.m. Daniel @jfd553, wrote: > Hi Group! > > I am currently working on a

Re: [Talk-ca] Parkings amb carsharing (opendata bcn)

2019-11-03 Thread James
Es el listo de email para el Canada. No esta para Catalan. Mucho gracias On Sun., Nov. 3, 2019, 8:03 p.m. Jarek Piórkowski, wrote: > Hi Joan, this is the Canadian mailing list, not the Catalan one :) > > Thanks, > --Jarek > > On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 at 19:59, Joan Quintana wrote: > > > > Aquesta

Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

2019-10-03 Thread James
xact. > Here's the reference document if you're interested: > https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/92-179-g/92-179-g2016001-eng.htm > > If at some point they did release it as open data, it might be decent > enough for the purposes of general geocoding in OSM, I just don't want > p

Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

2019-10-02 Thread James
funny you should mention geocoder.ca The owner of that website was sued by Canada Post because he was crowd sourcing postal codes. Just recently (2 ish years ago?) they dropped the lawsuit because they knew they didnt have a case(He came to the Ottawa meetups a couple of times) On Wed., Oct. 2,

Re: [Talk-ca] Ïle d'Orléan

2019-07-08 Thread James
Il se peut il y a eu une correction dans le dernier mois? Le cycle map est une tierce partie qui le maintiens et est mise à jour ~au 30 jours. On Mon., Jul. 8, 2019, 9:14 a.m. Pierre Boucher, wrote: > Bonjour à tous, > > Comment ce fait-il que l'ïle d'Orléans n'apparaît pas lorsqu'on affiche >

Re: [Talk-ca] English and French translation required for some road names

2019-07-05 Thread James
That way seems to be "tagged for the renderer". 1e Avenue is Première Avenue phonetically, but is probably 1e Avenue on the sign. As john has said it also depends on municipality, for example in Orleans(french suburb of Ottawa) you can have street names like this street(Maskinongé Crescent)

Re: [Talk-ca] Route verte besoin de corrections encore

2019-07-03 Thread James
it exists as one piece." > > http://ra.osmsurround.org/analyzeMap?relationId=416115 > > Pierre Boucher > > Le 2019-07-03 à 17:31, Martin Chalifoux via Talk-ca a écrit : > > On parle bien de Route Verte 5 ? Je vois pas vraiment de trous. > > > On Jul 3, 2019, at 11:56

[Talk-ca] Route verte besoin de corrections encore

2019-07-03 Thread James
Il y a des trous dans la route verte(relation # 416115) encore et a besoin d'être réparer de nouveau. J'ai essayer de remplir les trous dans l'est, mais l'ouest de Montreal a beaucoup de trous. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data for Airdrie AB

2019-04-23 Thread James
ODBL also has the annoying part where the data has to be fully licensed by the data provider: if city buys data from 3rd party and they still retain rights on it, then it becomes a problem On Tue., Apr. 23, 2019, 12:09 p.m. Jarek Piórkowski, wrote: > IANAL but as I understand it, you would have

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data for Airdrie AB

2019-04-22 Thread James
While I don't see anything in the license that wouldn't be compatible with OSM except maybe the attribution placement: as osm maintains licenses on the wiki and not in the data it's kind of "not the same project" and you'd have to ask city if attribution in the wiki would be sufficient then go

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import

2019-03-26 Thread James
If you could share the workbench it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks On Tue., Mar. 26, 2019, 1:11 p.m. Begin Daniel, wrote: > Hi Jarek, > There is actually no standard “code” available since I use FME ( > www.safe.com). It is a proprietary ETL application and all operations are > done

Re: [Talk-ca] Microsoft has released its building outlines for Canada

2019-03-04 Thread James
I could serve the output using the microdataservice and the osncanada task manager(multiple tasks) https://github.com/osmottawa/micro-data-service On Mon., Mar. 4, 2019, 7:16 p.m. Begin Daniel, wrote: > Tim, > > I have plenty of free time and I am interested in this import. I am about > to

Re: [Talk-ca] Microsoft has released its building outlines for Canada

2019-03-02 Thread James
M$ released data as ODbL so pretty sure license is compatible On Sat., Mar. 2, 2019, 5:27 p.m. OSM Volunteer stevea, < stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > A responsible complement to this would be a link to license information, a > wiki page about these data, and perhaps an Import Plan

Re: [Talk-ca] Bike infrastructure in OSM

2019-02-08 Thread James
I know the bike enthusiasts have been using this tagging guide: https://github.com/BikeOttawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide On Fri., Feb. 8, 2019, 5:06 p.m. Harald Kliems, wrote: > I just learned that US-based bike advocacy organization People for Bikes > is going to expand their "Bicycle

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 131, Issue 48

2019-01-26 Thread James
There is also fours states to a task..clear..no action, yellow...completed and green: validated! (there's also unvalidated to flag a tile as not being done again/not being validated) You can leave comments as well! On Sat., Jan. 26, 2019, 7:53 p.m. Nate Wessel I'm all for this, so long as it

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import update

2019-01-26 Thread James
roblem: > https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiSimplifyPreserveTopology > Nate Wessel > Jack of all trades, Master of Geography, PhD candidate in Urban Planning > NateWessel.com <http://natewessel.com> > > On 1/26/19 12:31 PM, James wrote: > > it does if you saw my analysi

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import update

2019-01-26 Thread James
Master of Geography, PhD candidate in Urban Planning > NateWessel.com <http://natewessel.com> > > On 1/26/19 11:31 AM, James wrote: > > no need for scripts, qgis does this fine via the Vector menu -> Geometry > tools -> Simplify Geometries utility. I simplified it t

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import update

2019-01-26 Thread James
e start systematically > checking the quality of our work, if ever. If no one wants to do it now, no > one is going to want to do it later either, and that doesn't bode well. > > 2. *Simplification*: James' analysis showed that simplification could > save several hundred megabytes (and probab

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 131, Issue 46

2019-01-26 Thread James
i haven't simplified because, no one gave me feedback on the data...Not going to process a bunch of datafiles for someone to turn around and say the simplification broke something. On Sat., Jan. 26, 2019, 9:57 a.m. Danny McDonald Personally, I'm eager to re-start importing, but I'd like to hear

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

2019-01-24 Thread James
tc.). It's just overwhelming for a new user. >>> > >>> > It is very much a cat-and-mouse type scenario with community driven >>> projects like OSM. Apparently the issue with this import is the lack of >>> community involvement but I can for sure tell you t

Re: [Talk-ca] 2020 building import wiki comment by Nate Wessel

2019-01-20 Thread James
rcontent.com>* a envoyé une réponse > incorrecte. > >- Essayez d'exécuter les diagnostics réseau de Windows. > > ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR > > > Pierre > > > Le samedi 19 janvier 2019 23 h 10 min 04 s HNE, James > a écrit : > > > tar.xz c'est un fich

Re: [Talk-ca] 2020 building import wiki comment by Nate Wessel

2019-01-19 Thread James
tag de merde qui sont aucunement utile à OSM. Je travaille sur les fichiers, car quelqu'un a dit les données était de la bouse de vache. On Sat., Jan. 19, 2019, 11:02 p.m. Pierre Béland James, > > Je pense que nous travaillons sur deux aspects différents. Tu te concentre > sur la p

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap, education and the buildings

2019-01-19 Thread James
That's french: France. Not french: Québec On Sat., Jan. 19, 2019, 8:44 p.m. John Whelan From weeklyosm: > Education > >- The new curriculum > > >(pdf) for French high

Re: [Talk-ca] Canada building import - Simplification discussion

2019-01-19 Thread James
into satellite imagery quality vs what the cities use (plane overhead gathering high-res imagery) On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 12:44 AM Nate Wessel wrote: > I'm changing the subject line to try and retain some clarity for the > mailing list. > > James, thanks for the stats! I'm surprised this didn't

Re: [Talk-ca] 2020 building import wiki comment by Nate Wessel

2019-01-19 Thread James
Resending because these emails are getting over 40KB in size and talk list is spazzing out: Original: 9.263 Average points per feature Points:20346517 Features:2196329 Simplified (20cm): 8.425 Average points per feature Points:18504036 Features:2196329

Re: [Talk-ca] 2020 building import wiki comment by Nate Wessel

2019-01-19 Thread James
use qgis or launch josm with java in 64bit mode(d64) with memory options (Xms, Xmx), or it will crap out at 3.5GB On Sat., Jan. 19, 2019, 5:13 p.m. OSM Volunteer stevea < stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: > On Jan 19, 2019, at 2:01 PM, James wrote: > > Is there no one that will anal

Re: [Talk-ca] 2020 building import wiki comment by Nate Wessel

2019-01-19 Thread James
Is there no one that will analyse the data I've posted here? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OK83yrPwMW4nefyu-6JsIInu0meK2rW6/view?usp=sharing or are we just email thread warriors? On Sat., Jan. 19, 2019, 4:29 p.m. Pierre Béland via Talk-ca < talk-ca@openstreetmap.org wrote: > Voici une

Re: [Talk-ca] 2020 building import wiki comment by Nate Wessel

2019-01-18 Thread James
You guys can analyze the simplified version of ontario: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OK83yrPwMW4nefyu-6JsIInu0meK2rW6/view?usp=sharing If you think it's good, I can simplify the other files and process them into mbtiles. ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] 2020 building import wiki comment by Nate Wessel

2019-01-18 Thread James
t; Jack of all trades, Master of Geography, PhD candidate in Urban Planning > NateWessel.com <http://natewessel.com> > > On 1/18/19 4:03 PM, James wrote: > > dare you to run simplify tool on anything remotely round, it will make it > look like garbage > > O

Re: [Talk-ca] 2020 building import wiki comment by Nate Wessel

2019-01-18 Thread James
dare you to run simplify tool on anything remotely round, it will make it look like garbage On Fri., Jan. 18, 2019, 3:49 p.m. John Whelan The import mailing list was pointed to the correct page of the wiki. The > initial post was to say this is what we were thinking of and there was a > comment

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

2019-01-18 Thread James
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/utilsplugin2 On Fri., Jan. 18, 2019, 3:02 p.m. Kevin Kenny On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:54 PM Yaro Shkvorets > wrote: > > JOSM offers very convenient way to do it called "Replace geometry". > Select both ways, old and new, press Ctrl-Shift-G, merge

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

2019-01-18 Thread James
As Frederik Ramm once said(sorry i'm paraphrasing from memory please don't shoot me) There has never been a GO-Nogo for imports, you bring it up on the mailing lists with reasonable delay, is there no objections(in this case no one was saying anything about it for 2-3 weeks) then email the list

Re: [Talk-ca] Multiple university departments in one building

2018-11-28 Thread James
josm now has a built in filter for levels On Wed., Nov. 28, 2018, 12:41 p.m. Tim Elrick Thank you, John and James. > > Place d'Orleans looks nice. And, of course, we do not map for the > renderer. However, as the departments that I want to map are on > different floor levels and not

Re: [Talk-ca] Multiple university departments in one building

2018-11-28 Thread James
Yeah I did that with the indoor tagging schema On Wed., Nov. 28, 2018, 7:40 a.m. john whelan Have a look at OSMand and see what it looks like. > > Generally it is considered bad practise to map for the renderer. > > As an alternative take a look at Place d'Orleans shopping center in > Orleans

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec imports

2018-11-27 Thread James
not sure why Canvec always gets shat uppon, their water features are great and pretty accurate, the forest/landcover on the other hand needs fixing before import. I think it's clear enough on the canvec wiki page that only experienced mappers/importers should attempt a canvec import. On Tue.,

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging paths that are snowploughed?

2018-11-20 Thread James
ll follow this convention. > > Thanks John > > James wrote on 2018-11-20 10:53 AM: > > pathes that ARE cleared are tagged seasonal=no as they are NOT > seasonal(closes during winter for example) > > On Tue., Nov. 20, 2018, 10:51 a.m. John Whelan wrote: > >&g

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging paths that are snowploughed?

2018-11-20 Thread James
pathes that ARE cleared are tagged seasonal=no as they are NOT seasonal(closes during winter for example) On Tue., Nov. 20, 2018, 10:51 a.m. John Whelan I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Paths that not cleared are tagged > seasonal=no or tags that are cleared get the tag seasonal=no? > > The

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-05 Thread James
ailing > list and we are working on a wiki page which will be based on the Stat > Canada City of Ottawa import wiki page. > > Cheerio John > > On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, 7:34 pm James >> if anyone needs a TM or micro data service, I'm available for this >> >&

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 129, Issue 15

2018-11-05 Thread James
Saskatchewan has Regina data. That's it. It's totally dependent on cities contributing to the open data effort On Mon., Nov. 5, 2018, 9:21 a.m. keith hartley Hi all, > I'd love to do more imports - I have a group here that we get together to > do mapping as well as know some locals. Of course

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread James
if anyone needs a TM or micro data service, I'm available for this On Fri., Nov. 2, 2018, 7:32 p.m. John Whelan This approach seems very sensible however Pierre has raised the issue of > poorly mapped buildings and we are aware that some were mapped in a > mapathon environment so whilst Ottawa

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread James
ide in rural areas come from > Canvec. Over the years I have deleted/modified thousands of them (Canvec > buildings) and I would not like to see all of them coming back. > > > > Daniel > > > > *From:* James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, November 2, 2018 16

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

2018-11-02 Thread James
>From my initial glance at the data...seems pretty good and accurate(again I didn't check all the cities nor do I expect them all to be having same level of accuracy) The two I've been eye balling are Kingston and Rimouski which seem to be very accurate at first assessment. If we do want to

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Database of Buildings / Base de données ouvertes sur les immeubles

2018-11-01 Thread James
We were actually talking about that on the osmcanada slack channel this morning. If we wanted to use said data it would have to be evaluated city by city not as a whole data source. There are providers(Ottawa, Yellowknife, Montreal for example) that are already pretty well mapped in OSM where

Re: [Talk-ca] Hydro Network (inland water) question

2018-09-27 Thread James
because we have over 2 million lakes and rivers and we are a couple hundred dedicated mappers that have the skill set to fix and import Canvec dataand not everyone prioritizes lakes and rivers in remote areas. On Thu., Sep. 27, 2018, 7:26 p.m. Peter R, wrote: > Hi Canada Import Team, > I'd

Re: [Talk-ca] Montréal: Inconsistency in Public Transportation Provider's Name

2018-08-12 Thread James
ent v3; une telle croissance se > produit. Joli bavard avec toi, Canada. > > Etienne > Californie > > > On Aug 12, 2018, at 3:45 PM, James wrote: > > > > Personellement la STM est connu sous la STM sur toute la "branding" > (bus, arrêts, site web(stm.

Re: [Talk-ca] Montréal: Inconsistency in Public Transportation Provider's Name

2018-08-12 Thread James
Personellement la STM est connu sous la STM sur toute la "branding" (bus, arrêts, site web(stm.ca), etc) La seule exception est que son nom légale est : Société de Transport de Montréal. Pareil pour la STO à Gatineau(Société de Transport de l'Outaouais) On Sun., Aug. 12, 2018, 7:39 p.m. OSM

Re: [Talk-ca] sharrows

2018-07-14 Thread James
https://github.com/BikeOttawa/OSM-Bike-Ottawa-Tagging-Guide/blob/master/README.md On Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 2:47 PM john whelan, wrote: > Ottawa has been adding these on one side of the highway and a cycle lane > in the other. > > How should they be mapped? > > ​Specifically how do you map the pure

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i and Wikidata

2018-06-01 Thread James
There's already an initiative to add wiki data to osm there's a tool that helps you find missing wikidata items in a location where you can validate if they are correctly matched or not: https://osm.wikidata.link/ On Thu, May 31, 2018, 5:50 PM Jonathan Brown, wrote: > Has anyone thought of

Re: [Talk-ca] A new available source of trail data in the Nanaimo area

2018-05-02 Thread James
Hopefully the names of said trails are not so vulgar as past experiences. If they have surveyed all of the trails themselves and are making the data available, I don't see an issue with using it(other than it being grossly inacurate) On Wed, May 2, 2018, 9:19 PM Doug Hembry,

Re: [Talk-ca] Question

2018-04-27 Thread James
Canada Post also regularly changes Postal Code locations to remain the master of the postal codes and be able to resell their 5000$/year database( https://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/assets/pdf/business/pc_latLong_specs_en.pdf). They have also sued geocoder.ca for collecting user postal codes, which

Re: [Talk-ca] DigitalGlobe building footprints for sale in Canada

2018-04-11 Thread James
Digital Globe has been doing it for a while. They put machine learning on their imagery and can extract buildings quite quickly and accurately On Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 12:24 PM Bernie Connors, wrote: > >

Re: [Talk-ca] Trans-Canada Highway research

2018-03-26 Thread James
to Ontarians. > > --- > Kevin Farrugia > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018, 11:46 AM Viajero Perdido, < > viajero.perdido.spam.buc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 18-03-26 05:33 AM, talk-ca-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: >> > Message: 3 >> > Date: Mon,

Re: [Talk-ca] Trans-Canada Highway research

2018-03-26 Thread James
highway 417 should be tagged as highway 417 and not principally transcanada way as this is how it's known locally. It can be tagged in transcanada relation, but it's mainly known as the 417 On Mon, Mar 26, 2018, 7:22 AM Olivia Robu - (p), wrote: > Hello, > > The Telenav

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 Calgary Challenges and Best Practices

2018-03-23 Thread James
tested on ff, same issue boundary box no longer shows On Fri, Mar 23, 2018, 11:18 AM john whelan, <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > So firefox would be fine? > > Thanks John > > On 23 March 2018 at 11:12, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> depends if you

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 Calgary Challenges and Best Practices

2018-03-23 Thread James
hots of good and bad examples to > demonstrate good practices. James, will the TM2 issue affect our March 29 > mapathon? > > > > Jonathan > > > ___ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >

Re: [Talk-ca] Poorly drawn buildings #GEOG231-W18; #BC2020; #UCalgary-GEOG231; #BC2020-UCalgary

2018-03-22 Thread James
n Tuesday the Canada tasking manager did not show > boundaries in iD editor. We tested the HOT TM which worked fine (however, > they are using TM3, I guess). > > @James: Might this all have to do with Canada TM being based on TM2 which > might not work well with last changes to iD

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-09 Thread James
ver the work as it is done. Technical term is validation > basically it is to give feedback to help with the data quality side. > > Cheerio John > > On 9 March 2018 at 11:44, Jonathan Brown <jonab...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks, James. I added one building to proj

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-09 Thread James
<brock_ba...@kprdsb.ca> <brock_ba...@kprdsb.ca>; Alasia, Alessandro > (STATCAN) <alessandro.ala...@canada.ca> > *Subject: *RE: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer > > > > I think Matthew or James are the people to talk to. I suspect it might

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup of addr:country, addr:province, addr:state

2018-03-09 Thread James
is addr:province even needed? province boundaries are pretty well defined and could be dropped On Mar 8, 2018 11:28 PM, "Matthew Darwin" wrote: > > So I've tidied up the addr:province/state tags, now using only > addr:province, leaving anything that would be generally

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread James
rpur in > Pakistan though), I am happy to help out too. > > For preparing the areas of interest (aoi) the project manager needs either > a geojson or a kml or a shapefile. If you want to draw on James' offer to > set up the tasking manager and just don't have the aoi as geojson,

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread James
Doesnt have to be precise, I just dont know those places. On Mar 8, 2018 2:28 PM, "Jonathan Brown" wrote: > do you have a geojson extent of the area you want to cover? > > > > - > > > > Rob Halko can answer that question for Durham Region, the priority area > for March

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread James
do you have a geojson extent of the area you want to cover? On Mar 8, 2018 2:06 PM, "Jonathan Brown" wrote: > If we could clone the http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/91 so that it > could be used to tag information for existing buildings in the regions of > Durham,

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i Mapathon Event

2018-03-01 Thread James
one impotant take away from past experiences is to tell them not to map the same element twice. For example, someone else maps it first, dont add it on top as well(duplicate item mapping) ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Manitoba buildings, addresses and high school work

2018-02-28 Thread James
urself > would be acceptable. > > There is an import process speak nicely to James and he may be kind enough > to handhold you through it. > > The LWG will give an opinion on the license but it could take some > considerable time to do so. > > The import needs to be approved by a the l

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names in Ontario

2018-02-26 Thread James
usually if its included in name its: Xyz Township not township of xyz On Feb 26, 2018 3:24 PM, "OSM Volunteer stevea" wrote: > Hi Matthew: > > You do fine work here, yet I have a concern about "Township." I don't > know if in Canada, a Township is a bit of an "odd

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

2018-02-16 Thread James
My favourite is Moose Factory. I think Canadian typonomy was the consesus last time we had the same subject come up On Feb 16, 2018 7:14 PM, "Matthew Darwin" wrote: > In my OSM map updates to remove of "City of" and similar prefixes from > locality names, I will not be

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

2018-02-16 Thread James
the only expanded version of the city name was in french, and on wikipedia: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sault-Sainte-Marie_(Ontario) Maybe because people(English) have trouble spelling "Sainte"? On Feb 16, 2018 5:38 PM, "Tristan Anderson" wrote: > I'm going to

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

2018-02-12 Thread James
Checked for Toronto and Ottawa they do not have "City of" : http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search?q=Toronto[]=985=O I agree with what Bernie said, unless it's the official name. It seems it's a classification. On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:02 PM, Bernie Connors

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

2018-02-12 Thread James
i believe "city of" is redundant as its a classification vs a name. Would we say "village of maniwaki"? nope. On Feb 12, 2018 5:51 PM, "Matthew Darwin" wrote: > Hi, > > I am now reviewing the *addr**:city* tag. Seems we are not very > consistent how we use it. For

Re: [Talk-ca] Postal Code cleanup

2018-02-07 Thread James
Canapost uses A#A #A# Seeing as they were trying to copyright it's usage (see lawsuit vs geocode.ca) I think thats the format we should use On Feb 7, 2018 8:02 PM, "Matthew Darwin" wrote: Hi all, Below are the 10 top postal code formats in Canada as seen in

Re: [Talk-ca] Buildings in Montreal

2018-01-30 Thread James
ta is ready yet. > > Note to James from a technical point of view any suggestions? > > Thanks John > > On 30 January 2018 at 13:10, Pierre Choffet <p...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > >> Le 30/01/2018 à 11:23, Charles Basenga Kiyanda a écrit : >> > What we're missing

Re: [Talk-ca] Buildings in Montreal

2018-01-30 Thread James
sorry, they do have buildings. but its combined with a bunch of other things in DWG format called "Cartographie de base" On Jan 30, 2018 8:34 AM, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: they seem to only have addresses and lidar. On Jan 30, 2018 8:30 AM, "john

Re: [Talk-ca] Buildings in Montreal

2018-01-30 Thread James
they seem to only have addresses and lidar. On Jan 30, 2018 8:30 AM, "john whelan" <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > But do they have a buildings outline file? > > Thanks John > > On 30 Jan 2018 7:52 am, "James" <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [Talk-ca] Buildings in Montreal

2018-01-30 Thread James
I was looking at license on the montreal site and they even say for OSM to use their data: http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/portail/license/ (scroll down) On Jan 30, 2018 6:57 AM, "john whelan" wrote: > Since Montreal would appear to have an acceptable licence and

Re: [Talk-ca] Preferred phone number format

2018-01-28 Thread James
personally I prefer: RFC 3966/NANP pattern as its more commonly used for telephone numbers(less the country code(unless long distance). Especially in white pages(back in the day we had paper copies) On Jan 28, 2018 8:24 PM, "Matthew Darwin"

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 OD_tables wiki and project status

2018-01-28 Thread James
Jan 28, 2018 5:53 PM, "OSM Volunteer stevea" <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: On Jan 28, 2018, at 2:39 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > CC Attribution is compatible with explicit permission, so Gatineau and Montreal may remain on the list. Oh, how I sometimes

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 OD_tables wiki and project status

2018-01-28 Thread James
CC Attribution is compatible with explicit permission, so Gatineau and Montreal may remain on the list. On Jan 28, 2018 5:20 PM, "OSM Volunteer stevea" wrote: > On Jan 28, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote: > > Steve A, > > I suspect

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 OD_tables wiki and project status

2018-01-28 Thread James
lus a few others by phone who had done something similar. Most of the enriching of OSM from Ottawa's Open Data came through their portal such as the GTFS file. Martin and James have done most of the work integrating what they could find. Once we had the license lined up then I understand the build

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 OD_tables wiki and project status

2018-01-28 Thread James
course. Also, can someone explain to me the > licensing issue? How do datasets released under the open government license > not meet the legal requirements of the OSM license? > > Then, On Jan 28, 2018, at 10:57 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > license is federal,

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 OD_tables wiki and project status

2018-01-28 Thread James
license is federal, cities must modify it to apply to municipal, thus creating new license On Jan 28, 2018 1:52 PM, "Jonathan Brown" wrote: > If we have a description of the scope of the work involved in updating the > BC2020 OD tables, I don’t mind trying to find some

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