Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec Import

2018-11-28 Thread Viajero Perdido
From: James not sure why Canvec always gets shat uppon, their water features are great and pretty accurate Bovine excrement.  Do I need to make an exhaustive list of the water-feature nonsense I keep finding?  Lakes dry up, and rivers change course (especially around Calgary in 2013). 

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec imports

2018-11-28 Thread Matthew Darwin
-- *From: *"James" *To: *"Andrew" *Cc: *"talk-ca" *Sent: *Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:58:19 AM *Subject: *Re: [Talk-ca] canvec imports not sure why Canvec always gets shat uppon, their water features are great and pretty accurate, the forest/landcover o

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec imports

2018-11-27 Thread Andrew Lester
of data without inspecting it, that's when we run into the visible issues that the peanut gallery picks apart. Andrew Victoria, BC From: "James" To: "Andrew" Cc: "talk-ca" Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:58:19 AM Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] canvec imports n

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] Canvec forest redux

2016-09-30 Thread Paul Ramsey
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Adam Martin wrote: > > You know, it suddenly strikes me that part of the reason that there is so > much trouble with the forest polygons from the Canvec data is less the > accuracy of the data and more the fact that it is brutally

[Talk-ca] Canvec forest redux

2016-09-29 Thread Sam Dyck
Hi everyone Sorry for bringing this up, but I need to some Canvec importing. Given the controversy about Canvec earlier this month, I'm trying to decide how to do this. I could: - Leave the forests out entirely. - Or use it as an opportunity to experiment with the Manitoba Lands Initiative

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

2016-09-15 Thread Begin Daniel
t: Tuesday, 13 September, 2016 07:53 To: Martijn van Exel; Stewart C. Russell; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec attributes (roads) Bonjour Martijn AFAIK, here is a summary about how old and accurate is Canvec/GeoBase. Transport Layers? The roads are updated every 1-2 year

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

2016-09-13 Thread Begin Daniel
Message- From: Martijn van Exel [mailto:m...@rtijn.org] Sent: Monday, 12 September, 2016 23:06 To: Stewart C. Russell; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec attributes (roads) On 09/12/2016 06:50 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > On 2016-09-12 04:08 PM, Martijn van Exel wr

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

2016-09-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
On 09/12/2016 06:50 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: On 2016-09-12 04:08 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Aren't these files grouped by feature type? So if we look at roads we wouldn't also necessarily need to look at land use boundaries etc.? Canvec - the product supplied by NRCan to the general

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

2016-09-12 Thread James
Yes the new canvec are split into different types of data: hydro data(lakes rivers etc), forest(loads of fun), transportation(this is what you want), etc On Sep 12, 2016 4:08 PM, "Martijn van Exel" wrote: > Aren't these files grouped by feature type? So if we look at roads we >

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

2016-09-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
Aren't these files grouped by feature type? So if we look at roads we wouldn't also necessarily need to look at land use boundaries etc.? At least that's what I am getting looking at http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/23387971-b6d3-4ded-a40b-c8e832b4ea08.html -- Martijn van Exel

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

2016-09-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
Paul, thanks, so perhaps we can start a new one for this data. Perhaps we can crowdsource it? Has that been done before? (Wouldn't it be interesting to have a github repo with the translation file, and each time a commit is made an ogr2osm run is fired and the resulting OSM file made available

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

2016-09-11 Thread Pierre Béland
voitures. Il faut au minimum un pickup + CB pour annoncer sa présence aux camions.    Pierre De : James <james2...@gmail.com> À : John Marshall <rps...@gmail.com> Cc : Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> Envoyé le : Dimanche 11 Septembre 2016 14h59 Objet : Re

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

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

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

2016-09-11 Thread John Marshall
Great idea Martijn, One of the big problems of OSM in Canada is there are many missing road where there are no local mappers. Canada is very big. Any tools to help map unmapped area of Canada gets a big +1 from me. John John Marshall On Sep 9, 2016 17:36, "Martijn van Exel"

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

2016-09-09 Thread Paul Norman
On 9/9/2016 2:34 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: The conflation engine takes OSM PBF as input, so the Canvec shapefiles would need to be translated (using ogr2osm). The CanVec we've used in the past has been supplied in OSM XML format. No one has proposed a new import with a different format, so

[Talk-ca] Canvec attributes (roads)

2016-09-09 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hi all, A few colleagues at Telenav and myself are looking at Canvec 2016. Roads specifically. I am sure some of you already have done that. Something we are looking into a workflow that is something like this (simplified): Canvec 2016 Shapefiles --> Conflation engine (Cygnus [1]) --> Tasking

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
I agree that forest that are way too costly in time should be removed, but they should also be replaced with something(better) not just mass removed, oh well we'll get to it later kind of thing On Sep 1, 2016 8:05 PM, "Sam Dyck" wrote: > I took a break to make supper, so

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Sam Dyck
I took a break to make supper, so I'm going to have to respond collectively. - Sammuell and sammuell_imports are my accounts. Both the forest and the lake are from Canvec data imported together as in the same tile. I Imported the whole thing (I would never import over existing data that

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Alan Richards
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] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread john whelan
>I think a super good first step would be try and ensure that future imports are done diligently and don't introduce new issues. I think that is a reasonable way forward, and I concur with the rest of your post. I think we need to identify which parts of CANVEC are giving concern, each province

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Andrew, On 09/02/2016 12:47 AM, Andrew Lester wrote: > If people from outside of Canada have decided that our data is so bad > that it needs to be completely wiped out in its entirety, then I guess > we're going to have to do something drastic to try to prevent this. I think a super good first

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Andrew Lester
treetmap.org> Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2016 2:38:38 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts After reading Paul's email again, its possible that what Nakaner is doing is in line with Paul's suggestion, if unnecessarily confrontational. I tried to play around in JOSM to see if I could get the

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Sam, On 09/01/2016 11:26 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> I believe the given what we have just spent the last 24 hours discussing >> this request is unreasonable and the issue is not significant. Thoughts? > > An importer who imports data into OSM that doesn't match up with already > existing data

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Sam Dyck
ions. > > > Pierre > > > -- > *De :* Sam Dyck <samueld...@gmail.com> > *À :* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> > *Envoyé le :* jeudi 1 Septembre 2016 17h06 > *Objet :* Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts > > I received the following changese

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Sam, Am 01.09.2016 um 23:06 schrieb Sam Dyck: > I received the following changeset comment from Nakaner for a Canvec import > (changeset > 38158126) at 15:55 Central Time (20:55 UTC): > > "This changeset has uploaded data which does not fit to each other. There > is an offset between the

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 2016-09-01 21:06:57, Sam Dyck wrote: > I believe the given what we have just spent the last 24 hours discussing > this request is unreasonable and the issue is not significant. Thoughts? An importer who imports data into OSM that doesn't match up with already existing data and doesn't

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Sam Dyck
I received the following changeset comment from Nakaner for a Canvec import (changeset 38158126) at 15:55 Central Time (20:55 UTC): "This changeset has uploaded data which does not fit to each other. There is an offset between the water areas and the forest areas. Example:

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
>From what Rps333 told me in person he had worked many hours on that changeset and was frustrated when someone reverted before fixes could be applied. Could you revert the revert? On Sep 1, 2016 4:09 PM, "Paul Norman" wrote: > Hello, > > Multiple people have referred this

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread john whelan
Canvec data has been imported for many years so why the sudden challenge and change? Are you willing to reimport the CANVEC data or are you intent on leaving a blank area in the map? Cheerio John On 1 September 2016 at 15:41, Michael Reichert wrote: > Hi James, > > Am

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Paul Norman
Hello, Multiple people have referred this issue and changeset 39517002 to the OpenStreetMap Foundation Data Working Group about this issue. The Data Working Group has responsibility for the resolution of disputes beyond the normal means of the community, as well as some responsibilities

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Begin Daniel
Message- From: Michael Reichert [mailto:naka...@gmx.net] Sent: Thursday, 1 September, 2016 15:41 To: James Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts Hi James, Am 2016-09-01 um 15:04 schrieb James: > To blatantly toss discussions of the > past whether to import

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Darren Wiebe
:naka...@gmx.net] > Sent: Thursday, 1 September, 2016 01:39 > To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi, > > unfortunately posting via Gmane does not seem to work (the website is down &g

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Sam Dyck
@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, unfortunately posting via Gmane does not seem to work (the website is down but NNTP still works), that's why I have to start a new thread. :-( Am Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:41:21 -0500 schrieb Sam Dyck

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Loïc Haméon
that someone write a >>> "How to >>> > pre-process a CanVec export before importing it into OSM". >>> >>> +1 >>> >>> All ongoing changesets which import CanVec data should either use an >>> improved version of the preproc

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Begin Daniel
...@gmx.net] Sent: Thursday, 1 September, 2016 08:37 To: Begin Daniel; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts Hi Daniel, Am 2016-09-01 um 12:26 schrieb Begin Daniel: > Furthermore, I hope you will not use you 100 objects per minute to > decide whether or not you will

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Michael Reichert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Am 2016-09-01 um 13:22 schrieb john whelan: > In many parts of the country there are no local mappers for many > miles or kilometers if you prefer. We do have some very > experienced GIS people around and I'm under the impression that we >

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
What tells you he didnt prepare batches outside the upload time(offline)? Your logic is skewed On Sep 1, 2016 8:39 AM, "Michael Reichert" wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Am 2016-09-01 um 12:26 schrieb Begin Daniel: > > Furthermore, I hope you will not use you 100 objects per minute to

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi Daniel, Am 2016-09-01 um 12:26 schrieb Begin Daniel: > Furthermore, I hope you will not use you 100 objects per minute to decide > whether or not you will delete a changeset. I think this threshold is value > doesn't' apply (see below) > > Daniel > > About the100 objects threshold. > From

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread john whelan
it takes to upload > the data to the database (5K objects per minute) do not reflect the time I > spent editing the data prior to the upload. > > -Original Message- > From: Michael Reichert [mailto:naka...@gmx.net] > Sent: Thursday, 1 September, 2016 01:39 > To: talk-ca@op

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread Begin Daniel
. -Original Message- From: Michael Reichert [mailto:naka...@gmx.net] Sent: Thursday, 1 September, 2016 01:39 To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, unfortunately posting via Gmane does not seem to work (the website

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
See that's where I have an issue with your revert logic, if errors are mostly corrected and say theres only 1 or 2 warnings, you want to revert the whole thing which is very bad for: 1. The community and 2. The database. Let me explain: there are many hours that go into merging down CanVec ways

[Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-08-31 Thread Michael Reichert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, unfortunately posting via Gmane does not seem to work (the website is down but NNTP still works), that's why I have to start a new thread. :-( Am Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:41:21 -0500 schrieb Sam Dyck: > After reading through the changeset

[Talk-ca] CanVec+

2015-10-07 Thread James
I was just wondering if anyone knew that CanVec data is being phased out and replaced by CanVec+. I spoke with Marc LeMaire from NRCan and he said that they will not be offering .osm conversions of CanVec+ data, which means that we will have to convert the shapefiles ourselves. My question is has

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec+

2015-10-07 Thread Adam Martin
Hi all! Thanks for the heads up, James. I was not personally aware of this change until now. Reading the news release for the CanVec+ from the Geogratis site (http://geogratis.gc.ca/site/eng/whats-new/intro-canvec). I think one of the key statements on the website is that the Department of

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec release schedule

2014-11-12 Thread Daniel Begin
the ftp site is running! Hoping for the best Daniel -Original Message- From: Andrew [mailto:andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com] Sent: November-08-14 15:28 To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] canvec release schedule Hello List: I seem to remember that Canvec had a 6 month

[Talk-ca] canvec release schedule

2014-11-08 Thread Andrew
Hello List: I seem to remember that Canvec had a 6 month release schedule for OSM, but the data on the ftp site seams to be about a year and half old. http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/OSM/pub/042/F/ Now I do see some newer data in: http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/canvec+/ Is the

[Talk-ca] CanVec updates without a version bump

2014-02-14 Thread Paul Norman
I was having a look at New Westminster in tile 092G02.1.1, and I noticed that there are differences between CanVec 10.0 which I downloaded when it came out and what I just downloaded from the CanVec webpage, which is also labeled CanVec 10.0 Addresses have been added, and with them, errors

[Talk-ca] Canvec 12

2013-12-04 Thread Sam Dyck
Is there a timeline for converting Canvec 12 to OSM XML? If not, could I get a copy of canvec2osm so I can convert the files I need? Sam ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec 10 Data

2013-11-04 Thread Harald Kliems
I think Daniel's email got cut off at the end :-) On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm not familiar with imports using Potlatch but importing it using JOSM is quite easy - open the file, select the features, copy then in a new layer and then upload the

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec 10 Data

2013-11-04 Thread Paul Norman
. From: Steve Roy [mailto:st...@ssni.ca] Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec 10 Data Agreed. I see that Paul Norman imported some of the City of Surrey GIS data a couple of years ago and that included house numbers. Cheers Steve On 04/11/2013 6:16 AM, Harald Kliems wrote: I think Daniel's

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec 10 Data

2013-11-04 Thread Steve Roy
no conflict there. I'd also hope that if people regard addresses as important they've been collecting them in surveys when out mapping, so there are address already there that should *not* generally be replaced by CanVec data. From: Steve Roy [mailto:st...@ssni.ca] Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec 10

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec 10 Data

2013-11-04 Thread Daniel Begin
Thanks for having found the missing part Harald!-) From: Harald Kliems [mailto:kli...@gmail.com] Sent: November-04-13 09:17 To: Daniel Begin Cc: Steve Roy; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec 10 Data I think Daniel's email got cut off at the end :-) On Mon, Nov 4, 2013

[Talk-ca] CanVec 10 Data

2013-11-03 Thread Steve Roy
I have been doing some CanVec 10 imports and noticed in the latest files that it includes semi street numbering - like odd/even block numbers. An example here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/49.74784/-123.11109 Is this worth importing? If so is there an easy way to import just this via

[Talk-ca] Canvec v12

2013-09-29 Thread Sam Dyck
What are the details regarding the conversion to OSM format of Canvec v12? Sam ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec-OSM FTP Down?

2013-07-21 Thread Daniel Begin
The links in the wiki (Canvec) is now corrected… Daniel From: François Paquette [mailto:fpaque...@cooptel.qc.ca] Sent: July-20-13 18:18 To: 'Daniel Begin'; 'Adam Dunn'; 'talk-ca' Subject: RE: [Talk-ca] Canvec-OSM FTP Down? Try with http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/OSM/pub http://ftp2

[Talk-ca] Canvec-OSM FTP Down?

2013-07-20 Thread Adam Dunn
Just tried to download a tile from http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/osm/pub and the server is saying the directory doesn't exist. Hopefully just a temporary thing, but does anybody know what's going on? Adam ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec-OSM FTP Down?

2013-07-20 Thread Daniel Begin
Bonjour Adam, I tried to access the site about a week ago without success. I was hoping the problem was temporary but I now worried. Daniel From: Adam Dunn [mailto:dunna...@gmail.com] Sent: July-20-13 15:46 To: talk-ca Subject: [Talk-ca] Canvec-OSM FTP Down? Just tried to download

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec-OSM FTP Down?

2013-07-20 Thread François Paquette
Bonjour Daniel and Adam I ‘ve sent an email to the person in charge. If the problem is not solved this weekend, it will be Monday François De : Daniel Begin [mailto:jfd...@hotmail.com] Envoyé : 20 juillet 2013 18:12 À : 'Adam Dunn'; 'talk-ca' Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec-OSM FTP Down

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec-OSM FTP Down?

2013-07-20 Thread François Paquette
Try with http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/OSM/pub http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/OSM/pub The FTP site is case sensitive François De : Daniel Begin [mailto:jfd...@hotmail.com] Envoyé : 20 juillet 2013 18:12 À : 'Adam Dunn'; 'talk-ca' Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec-OSM FTP Down

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec misalignment? Ottawa end of Portage Bridge

2013-01-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:30 AM, William Rieck bi...@thinkers.org wrote: There is no gospel, although surveys and GPS traces may be close, but certainly not Bing and CanVec imports. The map should represent what you see on the ground, so make whatever adjustments are needed, using deduction

[Talk-ca] CanVec misalignment? Ottawa end of Portage Bridge

2012-12-18 Thread Tom Taylor
I've been continuing to work on validation errors in the Ottawa area. One complaint was of buildings projecting into the Ottawa River on the west side of the Portage Bridge, by the dam between the Ottawa side of the river and Victoria Island. When I look, the buildings (source CanVec 6.0) are

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec misalignment? Ottawa end of Portage Bridge

2012-12-18 Thread William Rieck
There is no gospel, although surveys and GPS traces may be close, but certainly not Bing and CanVec imports. The map should represent what you see on the ground, so make whatever adjustments are needed, using deduction from your primary source (a survey), that aligns with traces (absolute

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec bug - splitting of long riverbank ways?

2012-11-13 Thread Brian Gamberg
Canvec data appears to be produced with a maximum of 2K nodes per way. I assume that this was an attempt by the Canvec people to meet the max 2K node criteria of the OSM database. When the split occurs in a way that is a member of a multipolygon, there's not a problem. Otherwise, as Paul has

[Talk-ca] CanVec bug - splitting of long riverbank ways?

2012-11-12 Thread Paul Norman
I appear to of found a CanVec 10 bug in 094P13.0.osm There is a waterway=riverbank way (Dilly Creek) that is split in two at 59.7728641, -121.9806992. One way is 2k nodes, the other is 457 nodes. Ideally this would be split in two to form two separate areas. An alternate solution would be to not

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Imports in areas with existing data

2012-11-06 Thread Andrew MacKinnon
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Duncan Hill dun...@soncan.ca wrote: I've recently imported some CanVec 10 data into the North Bay, Ontario area. It's been hard to figure out the best way to do this because of the assorted versions of existing data in the area. After chatting with some folks in

[Talk-ca] CanVec Imports in areas with existing data

2012-11-04 Thread Duncan Hill
I've recently imported some CanVec 10 data into the North Bay, Ontario area. It's been hard to figure out the best way to do this because of the assorted versions of existing data in the area. After chatting with some folks in the #osm-ca channel, I left the existing major highways to preserve

[Talk-ca] Canvec 10 and landcover issues

2012-10-19 Thread Harald Kliems
Hi everyone, I've done some OSMInspector debugging of areas around Montreal and I've come across a number of newly imported natural=wetland areas, sourced from Canvec 10. that are clearly wrong. This, for example, http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.69514lon=-73.90455zoom=17layers=M is a

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec 10 and landcover issues

2012-10-19 Thread Pierre Béland
...@gmail.com À : Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 19 octobre 2012 14h04 Objet : [Talk-ca] Canvec 10 and landcover issues Hi everyone, I've done some OSMInspector debugging of areas around Montreal and I've come across a number of newly imported natural=wetland areas

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec 10 and landcover issues

2012-10-19 Thread Paul Norman
From: Harald Kliems [mailto:kli...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 11:04 AM To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: [Talk-ca] Canvec 10 and landcover issues Hi everyone, I've done some OSMInspector debugging of areas around Montreal and I've come across a number of newly imported

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec 10 and landcover issues

2012-10-19 Thread Harald Kliems
Hi Pierre, thanks for the response. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr wrote: I dont know how you conclude that there is no wetlands around this area in Laval. It is not sufficient to see houses around to conclude that there is no wetland. These are often

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec 10 and landcover issues

2012-10-19 Thread Frank Steggink
On 19-10-2012 21:46, Harald Kliems wrote: Hi Pierre, thanks for the response. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr wrote: I dont know how you conclude that there is no wetlands around this area in Laval. It is not sufficient to see houses around to conclude

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec 10 and landcover issues

2012-10-19 Thread Pierre Béland
%3Dwetland   Pierre De : Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com À : Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr Cc : Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 19 octobre 2012 15h46 Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec 10 and landcover issues Hi Pierre

[Talk-ca] canvec fixme - Place type may not be valid

2012-10-10 Thread Andrew Allison
Hello: I'm currently importing canvec data in south western Ontario. My question is, canvec data has fixmes for place = locality Place type may not be valid track sport type unknown. Should I just go ahead and delete these fixme, as I don't think

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec fixme - Place type may not be valid

2012-10-10 Thread Pierre Béland
Glen locality (node=1873510264) at the end of Fishers Glen rd, near Fishers Creek.  Pierre De : Andrew Allison andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com À : talk-ca talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mercredi 10 octobre 2012 12h58 Objet : [Talk-ca] canvec fixme - Place

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Steggink
@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 6:52:12 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues I see the problem as being the importing of everything as being the problem, not the geometric model :)   From:Daniel Begin [mailto:jfd...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:49 PM

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-23 Thread Pierre Béland
 : talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Jeudi 23 août 2012 14h19 Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues Hi Pierre, In 2009 we had a meeting in Sherbrooke. This was in the day the Canvec landuse was starting to run. Discussions were already going on on talk-ca and the wiki pages for several

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-23 Thread Pierre Béland
-...@yahoo.fr Cc : talk-ca@openstreetmap.org talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Jeudi 23 août 2012 18h43 Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues Pierre, I've been using the Geobase layer for adding street names, too, and it's a great tool. Do you (or anyone else) know an easy way to make JOSM

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Frank Steggink
/recherche.aspx?s=lac-ouimetx=0y=0 for lac Ouimet results Pierre *De :* Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org *À :* talk-ca@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Mardi 21 août 2012 13h32 *Objet :* [Talk-ca] Canvec

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Frank Steggink
*From:*Pierre Béland [mailto:infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr] *Sent:* August-21-12 16:04 *To:* talk-ca@openstreetmap.org *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues I didn't do Canvec imports too much. Looking at various lakes in wooded areas, I now realize that Canvec imports are often

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Pierre Béland
problems. I will write a specific memo about that.   Pierre De : Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org À : talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mercredi 22 août 2012 11h52 Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues Hi Pierre, Regarding the duplicated ways, I'll

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Norman
I see the problem as being the importing of everything as being the problem, not the geometric model :) From: Daniel Begin [mailto:jfd...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:49 PM To: 'Pierre Béland'; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues Bonjour

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Béland Pierre
: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues Yeah, don't just do blanket imports.  Just import whatever data OSM *does not* have. - David E. Nelson From: Paul Norman penor...@mac.com To: 'Daniel Begin' jfd...@hotmail.com; 'Pierre Béland' infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr; talk

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-21 Thread Pierre Béland
/recherche.aspx?s=lac-ouimetx=0y=0 for lac Ouimet results    Pierre De : Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org À : talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 21 août 2012 13h32 Objet : [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues Hi, Today I was contacted by someone inquiring

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-21 Thread Pierre Béland
2012 13h32 Objet : [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues Hi, Today I was contacted by someone inquiring (with a somewhat hostile tone) after the Canvec import I've done over the weekend northwest of Montréal. He was not really happy with the way how the import has handled. The way the Canvec data

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

2012-08-11 Thread James Ewen
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: David E. Nelson [mailto:denelso...@yahoo.ca] Subject: [Talk-ca] CanVec imports allowed again? Now that the redaction bot has apparently finished its sweep of Canada, is it safe for CanVec imports to be resumed

[Talk-ca] canvec import in ontario

2012-07-29 Thread Jesse Davis
Hello, I'd like to import some canvec data for the area just north of Plevna, Ontario, Canada (NTS 031F02), which has not been imported and for the most part is completely blank. I have downloaded the most recent canvec 10 data and it looks like the import is easy enough to do using the provided

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

2012-07-26 Thread David E. Nelson
10:00:54 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec imports allowed again? Hello David, I was wondering if you had a quick tutorial about canvec imports? It seems that several areas in the Alberta Lake Louis area have been damaged and I thought I would start with some re-imports Thanks Iain On 2012-07

[Talk-ca] CanVec imports allowed again?

2012-07-21 Thread David E. Nelson
Now that the redaction bot has apparently finished its sweep of Canada, is it safe for CanVec imports to be resumed?  I want to try my hand at importing a few tiles around where I live.   - David E. Nelson ___ Talk-ca mailing list

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

2012-07-21 Thread Paul Norman
From: David E. Nelson [mailto:denelso...@yahoo.ca] Subject: [Talk-ca] CanVec imports allowed again? Now that the redaction bot has apparently finished its sweep of Canada, is it safe for CanVec imports to be resumed?  I want to try my hand at importing a few tiles around where I live

[Talk-ca] Canvec in Potlatch 2

2012-07-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello talk-ca people, I've made a little change to Potlatch 2 that will ease the process of loading Canvec data. Potlatch's approach is very much here is some data that you can use to help your mapping, rather than here is some data you can upload in bulk, and the idea is that you load the

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec in Potlatch 2

2012-07-03 Thread James Ewen
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: I've made a little change to Potlatch 2 that will ease the process of loading Canvec data. Potlatch's approach is very much here is some data that you can use to help your mapping, rather than here is some data you

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec and other external sources

2012-04-11 Thread Bégin , Daniel
. Thanks to Paul Best regards, Daniel -Original Message- From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com] Sent: April 9, 2012 09:20 To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: [Talk-ca] canvec and other external sources Dear all, Paul Norman pointed this out to me. If canvec, or other external source

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset

2012-01-31 Thread Bégin , Daniel
a precision around 0.027 meter witch look like your 0.03 meter. Cheers Daniel -Original Message- From: michael bishop [mailto:cle...@nbnet.nb.ca] Sent: January 30, 2012 16:11 To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset ive been working with canvec for a few days now

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset

2012-01-31 Thread michael bishop
0.001 meter. The 6th digit a precision around 0.027 meter witch look like your 0.03 meter. Cheers Daniel -Original Message- From: michael bishop [mailto:cle...@nbnet.nb.ca] Sent: January 30, 2012 16:11 To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset ive been working

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset

2012-01-31 Thread Frank Steggink
16:11 To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset ive been working with canvec for a few days now, and ive noticed some of the data is offset by 0.03 meters its not matching up with nearby tiles for example 021O10 doesnt match up with 021O07 ive noticed the problem

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset

2012-01-31 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Message- From: Frank Steggink [mailto:stegg...@steggink.org] Sent: January 31, 2012 11:56 To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset I've seen some of these deviations as well during Canvec import. Because they are so small ( 1 meter), I just decided to glue

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset

2012-01-30 Thread michael bishop
mailto:michael%20bishop%20%3ccle...@nbnet.nb.ca%3e *To*: Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca mailto:samuel%20longiaru%20%3clongi...@shaw.ca%3e *Subject*: Re: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset *Date*: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:42:42 -0400 yeah, its not much, but its enough to screw up josm when trying

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset

2012-01-30 Thread Samuel Longiaru
accuracy? Or the next, or the next? No. Here is an example where good enough is TRULY good enough. It's all the science can bear. Sam -Original Message- From: michael bishop cle...@nbnet.nb.ca To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] canvec data

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset

2012-01-30 Thread michael bishop
-Original Message- *From*: michael bishop cle...@nbnet.nb.ca mailto:michael%20bishop%20%3ccle...@nbnet.nb.ca%3e *To*: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap talk-ca@openstreetmap.org mailto:talk-ca%20openstreetmap%20%3ctalk...@openstreetmap.org%3e *Subject*: Re: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset *Date*: Mon

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