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I'm doing some work in the Washington State and noticed some problems along the border between BC and Washington State. I asked for help on the talk-us mailing list. I originally though the border was incorrect. However, because the border doesn't track exactly along the 49th parallel there

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Importing CanVec better?

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Maury Markowitz maury.markow...@gmail.comwrote: Newb here, so I hope this is the right place to ask. I also posted on one of the wiki talk pages, but I didn't know if anyone goes there. I have noticed that vectors imported from the CanVec database are split at

Re: [Talk-ca] Sewage dump stations

I believe you want amenity=waste_disposal and waste=excrement Look under the waste tag on the wiki. I do believe we need a single amenity=sewage_dump_station instead of the two tags, but... On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Tony Toews t...@tonytoews.com wrote: Folks One object that is of

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM apps for iOS devices

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:07 AM, Guillaume Pratte guilla...@guillaumepratte.net wrote: In preparation for the upcoming OSM workshop in Montreal, I would like to have the advice of people using iPhones and such on the best OpenStreetMap applications available. Go Map!! It's the best portable

[Talk-ca] Expanding the Future Look Team

to increase the feeling to be part of a community? How can we get people to use Openstreetmap apps and improve the data? The four Openstreetmappers are Clifford Snow (USA), Markus Semm (Germany), Dermot McNally (OSMF board member, Ireland), Dave Corley (Ireland) and Johan de Ruijter (The Netherlands

Re: [Talk-ca] Web cameras

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Matthew Buchanan matthew.ian.bucha...@gmail.com wrote: Are web cameras an appropriate source for OSM? Specifically these ones from the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. http://wcs.pbaeng.com/projects/PMH1 A user in Seattle added surveillance

Re: [Talk-ca] Local Vancouver meeting: Map Central Park

Paul, Thanks for scheduling the mapping party. I plan to attend along with one guest. I'll bring my GPS along with my Android phone with OSMTracker. Clifford On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I am planning on hosting a mapping event in Central Park (

Re: [Talk-ca] Updating Street Centerlines in County of Grey, Ontario, Canada

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Shah,Soham soham.s...@grey.ca wrote: I was thinking of using the JOSM Editor utility to bulk import the data. I read on the ‘Import process guidelines’ wiki that street centerlines can be very difficult to import. So, I am looking for some guidance and opinions

[Talk-ca] Celebrate OpenStreetMap's 10th Anniversary in Seattle (Just across the border from BC)

...@snowandsnow.us if interested. Clifford Snow -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] OSM Birthday Event in Seattle: Reminder get your proposals in

, including food and drinks for the participants. Contact me at cliff...@snowandsnow.us if interested. Clifford Snow -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https

[Talk-ca] 10th Anniversary Celebration in Seattle Reminder

OpenStreetMap Seattle invites you to the Tenth Anniversary of OpenStreetMap Celebration, August 9th at Tableau Software in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood. Join us to help celebrate OpenStreetMap's Birthday Event. Signup for the event at http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/events/186048572/

[Talk-ca] Vancouver Meetup

We are having our second meetup on Tuesday, November 25 in Vancouver. The meeting will be held at the Community Living Society, 713 Columbia Street, New Westminster, BC. Sign up on http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Vancouver/events/218377932/ to attend. It will be a great time. Don't miss it.

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

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Stewart C. Russell scr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stephanie, thanks for your note. It's always good to see municipalities opening up their data, and better still to see what citizens can do with it. There are a couple of potential issues that are likely to hinder

Re: [Talk-ca] Low quality unresolvable notes

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I've been catching up on local notes, and have come across a few I'm not sure how to resolve. There are a number which are equivalent to There is a some name of shop somewhere in this block. While probably correct, they're

Re: [Talk-ca] iD editor

I heard a talk from David Bitner on customizing id for adding information to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA.) His github repository with a code template is https://github.com/missinglinkmaps/custom_id As I recall, BWCA publishes features for various campsites. Using just a small subset of

Re: [Talk-ca] Help adding WMS to Potlatch2

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Bernie Connors wrote: > > I am trying to add a WMS server to Potlatch2 to display some 2014 > orthophotos as a background. I am using Background > Edit > Add. here are > the details of the WMS server and layer I want to use. It

[Talk-ca] US SOTM Early Bird Special

Just in case you didn't realize that US State of the Map Early Bird conference discount ends this Sunday, April 10th. Be sure to register to take advantage of the early bird special. Just point your browser to http://stateofthemap.us and click on Early Bird half way down the page. Looking forward

[Talk-ca] Early Bird Registration to State of the Map US

Registration to State of the Map US is now open. Tickets are available for $90 until April 10th, then they will go up to the regular rate of $150. Head over to http://StateOfTheMap.us and get your early bird ticket. Interested in speaking at the conference, organizing workshops or a scholarship

[Talk-ca] Propose a session for SOTM-US in Seattle

Propose a session for State of the Map US in Seattle We are calling on mappers, academics, policy makers, developers, geo-hackers, business leaders and open geodata supporters to propose a talk or a workshop at State of the Map US. This Call

[Talk-ca] SOTM-US Scholarship Program

OpenStreetMap US Blog post on Apr 02 2016 by Alex Barth and Arielle Simmons-Steffen Our annual State of the Map US [1] conference is about many things, but one of the most important things it is about is building community. In fact, that's why it is our theme for this year's conference! Increasing

[Talk-ca] March 1st - Vancouver Missing Maps Event

We are holding a Missing Maps Event in Vancouver on March 1st. More information and signup at https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Vancouver/events/237860781/ Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging forest as a park?

It's possible Denis001 edit is an effort to "game" Pokemon. I would recommend fixing the edit and send them a nicely worded welcome message with help in how to edit. I provide new users with a link to this blog on editing for Pokemon, https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/12/30/tips-pokemon-go/

Re: [Talk-ca] Tagging forest as a park?

n't exist back then, I think it was > just a mistake. > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> > wrote: > >> It's possible Denis001 edit is an effort to "game" Pokemon. I would >> recommend fixing the edit and send them

Re: [Talk-ca] Mysterious GPS traces

On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Loïc Haméon wrote: > > > I've been trying to familiarize myself with various features of OSM > editors. While puttering about in the ID editor, I've stumbled upon a mess > of very short and apparently unusable GPS traces in a small area of a >

Re: [Talk-ca] Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada Data

Let me tag onto Denis' suggestion to manually add the data. If you can get people interested in OSM but sponsoring the update, then you'll have people that will keep it current. For a town of 8,100 people, it would only take a small handful to make a huge difference. And OSM is easy enough for the

Re: [Talk-ca] Ferry key on ways

Ionut, I've been adding duration to ferry ways in Washington State. None of the ways have a ferry key which seems rather redundant since the connecting ways are tagged with the highway type. But there are different types of ferries in operation. From the fancy BC Ferries to the small platforms

Re: [Talk-ca] Vancouver rapid transit stations - "Station" in name?

I'm with you, station shouldn't be included in the name unless its signed that way. I've been successful in asking questions like this directly to the agency. They might be surprised that they have an inconsistent naming practice between documents. I did find a Steven Frick, who is secretary of

[Talk-ca] Bike Routes in BC

The US just completed three bike routes that end at the Canada/US border in BC. The routes are USBR87, 95 and 97. Looking at WaymarkedTrails cycling map[1], they routes don't extend into BC. Is anyone on this list involved with mapping cycle routes, especially national routes? I don't know if

Re: [Talk-ca] Seeking tips rev shoreline and terrain refinements

Dan, On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 5:55 AM, Dan Doherty wrote: > Hello, > I am fairly new to open street maps and am interested in a Skype/Zoom call > to discuss the basics, and/or answers to some questions that will help me > make some shoreline refinements and address some

Re: [Talk-ca] Burnaby, BC: community map project

Stewart, We just has our monthly OSM get together in Burnaby. Wish I had seen your post before. If you can find anything, it would be much appreciated. Clifford On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > I saw a flyer when I was in Burnaby this past week for

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

Matthew, Just one concern - Removing of addr:city. I encourage people to include addr:city since it's part of their mailing address and could easily be outside of the city limits. While addr:city isn't needed inside of city boundaries since it can be obtained from their spatial location, does make

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

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:44 AM, Matthew Darwin wrote: > Hi Clifford, > > (It was good to meet you at SOTM US last year). > > Thanks for your comments... The situation with addr:city appears to me to > be more complex than the situation with addr:province/addr:country, along

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 120, Issue 53

Open Data folks are > hosting. One idea is to have the students add trees to OSM. For > accessibility, you should see what Clifford Snow is doing with > postsecondary students from the the Taskar Centre > <https://tcat.cs.washington.edu/>. > > > I want to clear up any miscon

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i Mapathon Event

> > > > > 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) > Using a Tasking Manager solve most of the duplicate editing issues. The TM breaks the the

[Talk-ca] MAPS.ME Changeset

A MAPS.ME user added 66 attractions [1] in a changeset that included Vancouver, Montreal and Vermont. While I visit Vancouver I'm not familiar with any of them. I left a changeset comment that has been replied to in the last 16 hours. Another user suggested reverting them. Can someone local check

Re: [Talk-ca] Problems with tagging of islands/islets in a river

Thanks - I'm traveling right now or I would have. On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 8:01 AM John Marshall wrote: > I will fix it. > > John > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:47 AM Clifford Snow > wrote: > >> The multipolygon of the river where the islands are missing appears

Re: [Talk-ca] Problems with tagging of islands/islets in a river

The multipolygon of the river where the islands are missing appears to be wrong. JOSM should be able to fix it. Clifford On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 7:26 AM Steffen Roller wrote: > Rendering of islands/islets in a river > > I was missing several islands on 'my' Grand River while paddling. > I don't

[Talk-ca] Piggyback a SOTM bid with FOSS4G in Calgary

The 2020 FOSS4G is being held August 24-29 in Calgary. This seems like a good opportunity to submit a SOTM bid for either the weekend before or the weekend after. I have a number of friends that can get funding from their company to one but not both. Having both conferences in the same week will

Re: [Talk-ca] Piggyback a SOTM bid with FOSS4G in Calgary

love for that to happen again. If I can somehow support >> I'd be happy to. >> -- >> Martijn van Exel >> m...@rtijn.org >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, at 11:26, Clifford Snow wrote: >> >> The 2020 FOSS4G is being held August 24-

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

I've done a number of building imports using no square shapes with no problem. JOSM is set to open up new tasks in a separate layer which avoid the problem of having task loading next the the just closed task. (I'm doing the imports in the US using voting districts. Each district typically has

Re: [Talk-ca] Coastline Question

Adam, I just looked at a recent CANVED File Geodatabase. The coast line appears not to extend into the river. However, and this is a big however, the metadata associated with the data doesn't have sufficient information to say for certain what I'm looking at is actual shoreline. My guess is there

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

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 10:46 AM Martin Chalifoux via Talk-ca < talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > This morning I checked some large cities namely New-York, Paris, > Amsterdam, London, Berlin. Since OSM is best developed in Europe these > capitals make sense. I just checked Tokyo, Shangai, Seoul,