Hi everyone,
I noticed that someone has damaged parts of the Lachine Canal in Montreal.
Between the Saint-Gabriel and the Rue des Seigneurs locks there is only the
waterway way and no longer the actual outline of the canal.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/45.4742/-73.5809
Unfortunately, I
Hi Guillaume,
my two cents: since this seems to be a feature that is pretty much unique
in Montreal, you'll probably have to come up with your own tagging. I would
not introduce a new tag on the service=* level, as these primarily still
appear to be alleys and a new tag on that level might break
Neat! Using only a rectangular bounding box probably wouldn't work
that well for Canada, though. Anybody know how to use a border
relation with Overpass in order to extract only data from Canada/a
province/a town?
Harald.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Colin McGregor colin.mc...@gmail.com
Side note: Looks like the Mapbox renderer uses an algorithm that
shortens common parts of street names, like Boulevard to Blvd or
Crescent to Cr. Which in Montreal leads to funny things like Rue
Cr and The Blvd...
Harald.
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Fabian Rodriguez
magic...@member.fsf.org
OpenStreetBrowser offers routing and clickable POIs. Higher zoom levels
were experimentally implemented on a server by the French OSM community but
I think it is no longer online. I can't remember the URL, but you should be
able to find the related discussion in the archives of the general talk
You'll probably want one of those windshield suction mounts, something
like this
http://www.mountguys.com/Cup_Suction_Mount_for_Garmin_eTrex_Dakota_Oregon_p/mfx-wingn-11023.htm
(note that this is just a randomly googled one and I can't comment on
the quality). Because they need adjustability and
Looks very nice! But it's too bad that the bus lines/stops are not
displayed -- or do I just not see the option? And out of curiousity: is the
address search also OSM-powered? I'm assuming it isn't, as address data in
Montreal is rather incomplete in my experience.
Harald.
2013/6/20 Simon
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Fabian Rodriguez
magic...@member.fsf.org wrote:
It seems although the option is not visible, the default search for an
itinerary is for bus lines. *If you check metro/train* options, they
will be *added* in the itinerary calculation:
A lot of this was added and modified today by user ajk, who
unfortunately does not provide any comments on his/her changesets. So
maybe s/he deleted the highways in order to remap?
Cheers,
Harald.
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 4:24 PM, ingalls nicholas.inga...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey there,
I just
Much has already been said. A good tool to collect housenumbers on an
Android phone is keypadmapper:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/KeypadMapper
I've mostly mapped interpolation lines in my Montreal neighborhood.
The problem here is that each apartment has an individual housenumber,
meaning
Works fine for me on FF 20.0.1
Harald.
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Stewart Russell scr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Fabian Rodriguez magic...@member.fsf.org
wrote:
First, thanks to Darryl and Richard for taking care of this!
I have one quick, easy (I assume), and probably non-controversial
suggestion: when I clicked on the link, I got a map of Europe, not
Canada. I know that this is only relevant for the first visit but
maybe it can be fixed anyway.
Best,
Pierre:
Isn't it exactly Richard's point that the fact that they're choosing
their own, non-standard licence means that we OSM contributors won't
be able to answer your question? We -- or at least most of us -- are
mappers, not IP lawyers. So maybe the licence is compatible, maybe
it's not.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Colin McGregor colin.mc...@gmail.com 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
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
Lastly, cadastral data is probably the least exciting type of data for OSM.
Other data like roads, addresses and even buildings is more useful.
Oh, I thought cadastral data would include building outlines? At least
that's the
Hey everyone,
I've just noticed that the Bing aerial imagery in my neighborhood has
changed. We used to have pretty good images but they were from 2007.
While doing some edits I noticed that the quality suddenly has gotten
much worse and looking at the tile info it now shows that the imagery
is
Oh, nevermind. This appears to depend on the zoom level. If you zoom
in further you still get the good 2006/2007 pictures. Nonetheless I
think the 2011 data must have been added fairly recently.
Harald.
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey everyone,
I've
Maybe it would make sense to come up with a consensus of which tags
can be stripped. I know that for the US TIGER data JOSM automatically
removes the cruft when you edit a way, and we should have this for
Geobase/Canvec, too.
Harald.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com wrote:
Instead of a filter in an editor, why not a osm-bot doing this job?
Well, actually it appears JOSM is already doing what I proposed:
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/7915
I'm not opposed to a bot but someone has to
Fabian,
maybe I'm misunderstanding what exactly you're looking for, but why
don't you use a service like http://www.GPSies.com to create the
routes and then embed the maps on the web page? GPSies offers several
OSM-based map layers (with MapQuest as the default).
If you already have gpx files for
-- désolé, en anglais seulement
I've recently started mapping bus stops and lines in my neighborhood.
After figuring out the not-that-easy public_transport schema, I've
encountered a problem: how to find out the name of a bus stop? Bus
stops in Montreal all have a unique, 5-digit number which is
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:48 AM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote:
Look for a GTFS for Montreal file that will give you the numbers. Watch the
licensing though.
Ah, thanks, GTFS was they right keyword. But yeah, the license does
not appear to be compatible:
Personally I don't map sidewalks like that but I respect local
mappers' work and would not change this, as it isn't really wrong. I
don't think there's a strong consensus to map sidewalks merely as
attributes of the adjoining road, and there are a lot of problems with
that approach, too. E.g. how
Hi David:
May I ask why you think it's a good idea to add these to the OSM
database? I'm rather skeptical of imports of features that we have no
way of verifying on the ground (or otherwise). Yes, there are
exceptions to this rule, like municipal boundaries, but still. It's
great that Environment
Just saw this on the General discussion list:
http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Happy-New-Year-from-MapRoulette-tp5743713.html
After removing 7 routing problems in the US, Maproulette
connectivity error fixing has come to Canada!
Harald.
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I saw the coverage in the Gazette this morning and checked the border.
We indeed have border=disputed in the database, and it has been like
that for quite some time. Nominatim will return the island twice, one
with USA, one with Canada as the country.
Harald.
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 4:08 PM,
I'm normally car-less but will have a rental car over the holidays.
I'll try to take a detour across the new bridge then.
I also wanted to add more detailed tagging about the tolls but judging
from the wiki there doesn't appear to be an agreed upon system for
adding this information.
Another option to quickly find duplicate ways and routing errors is to
use the OSMInspector
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/debug.html?view=routing_non_eulon=-75.82919lat=45.41720zoom=10
Harald.
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Tom Taylor tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com wrote:
While uploading edits
From today's Gazette:
http://offislandgazette.com/news/story/2012/11/29/highway-30-will-open-dec-15/
We already have the route as highway=construction (
http://osm.org/go/cIo9hLV-- ) but maybe someone local with a car get a
GPS track soon after the opening and change the tags. I'm not quite
sure
Other things you could do: check if the Canvec data has been moved
after being imported. As I've said, Bing imagery can be improperly
aligned, but not everybody is aware of that. So it's possible that a
well-meaning mapper has moved the Canvec data to match the imagery.
Did you check your GPS
I've already said what I have to say about the issue at hand in
earlier discussion. A more lighthearted remark: whenever I feel
depressed about some Canvec-related issue I load up JOSM, pick a
random location in the US, and spend half an hour fixing TIGER data.
It's a very effective therapeutic...
I've run into similar issues. Street signs vary a lot, sometimes on the
same street, a good (and maybe extreme) example is Bord-du-Lac/Lakeshore on
the West Island. There are English-only signs: http://goo.gl/maps/Q4wQR ,
bilingual ones (that leave out the Drive in English)
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
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
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/all/Putting+North+Google+recruits+Northerners+help+with/7131985/story.html
(may be paywalled)
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Hi Paul,
did you ever get around to doing this? I was recently adding a bunch
of street names based on Geobase along the St. Lawrence between
Montreal and Quebec City and I noticed that there are still lots of
streets (and house number interpolations) with the double blanks. And
can somebody
That's indeed some nice imagery. In the area I looked at, the QC/NY
border south of Montreal, it doesn't extend all that far into Canada
but it's nice nonetheless. If you look at the list linked from the
wiki page ( http://cumulus.cr.usgs.gov/dispatches/PRODUCT_Orthos.html
) there don't seem to be
While browsing the map I noticed that the CFBs Borden and Meaford show
up on the standard Mapnik mak in very low zoom levels (z=6).
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.28lon=-80.06zoom=6layers=M
The reason appears to be that they're tagged as place=city. According
to the wiki this tag should be
Yeah, I'm also not sure if I interpret the data correctly, but it
looks like nothing was deleted on the Montreal Island?? That would
seem rather suspicious to me -- or did I just miss a giant remapping
effort happening in the last few weeks (admittedly, I haven't been
doing much for OSM recently)?
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 1:13 AM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Steve Roy st...@ssni.ca wrote:
What's the best way to be able to show there is a trail where the pipeline
is? Can I just add a highway/trail on top of the existing pipeline? Or?
Does the
On the talk-ca list there have been a few discussion about problems
with flooded areas in southern Quebec. The conclusion seems to be
that the problems are due to the rendering of the coastline which only
gets updated every once in a while. The two cases are:
*
On the talk-ca list there have been a few discussion about problems
with flooded areas in southern Quebec. The conclusion seems to be
that the problems are due to the rendering of the coastline which only
gets updated every once in a while. The two cases are:
*
Just to add to this:
in the Montreal area the alignment of the Bing imagery in my
experience is very good. It is nonetheless a good idea to always also
download the GPS tracks and make sure the images match those (and the
Canvec import data).
Harald (who has done a lot of aerial imagery-supported
Hi Andrew:
that's actually old flooding, visible only at certain zoom levels.
We've had a discussion about it a while ago
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2012-April/004674.html
Since the issue still persists I'll try and see if I can contact
anyone who will be able to fix it.
That's great news. Let's hope the accuracy of the new images will be
good. For checking the age of Bing imagery, see here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing#Age_of_the_aerial_pictures
No idea if this will work with the new images (and apparently it
wasn't all that accurate with the old ones
Hi Frank:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org wrote:
The triangle is probably caused by the shapefile which is used for rendering
the coastline at levels 9 and below. This shapefile isn't updated very
often. I believe it is a different one than the file used
In the link you sent it does render, but not at lower zoom levels.
I've manually set the tiles to dirty (see here
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_Map#Mapnik_tile_rendering )
and that has fixed the issue (you might have to reload with Ctrl-F5 to
get rid of the cached image)
Best,
Harald.
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
Okay, so, u. Wow!
I've been looking around with the OSM Inspector to see how the license
clean up is progressing elsewhere.
I'm currently collecting some GPS data in preparation for fixing
Verdun which is the worst
2012/3/31 Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr:
Since I work more for developping tools, I am not as familliar as many of
you about re-mapping procedure.
I need clear ODBL Safe instructions on how to redraw areas like in Verdun
where large portions have to be redrawned. This morning, I was
Pierre:
Merci pour l'avis. I will retrace right away (just got back from a
ride along there).
Harald.
2012/3/31 Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr:
Avis aux cyclistes du Québec. À partir de minuit les chemins, nodes etc qui
ne sont pas sous la nouvelle licence ODBL disparaitront. Vérifiez
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:21 AM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Gerald A geraldabli...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not a big supporter of imports, but if you are going to use them, you
should use and verify all of them, not just some bits. I'm not sure if there
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
highway=service with access=no or access=private then. Many service roads
aren't open to the public.
If the road is there and is a service road, it's mappable.
I'd like to add, though, that there is a problem with
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote:
Access=no is rendered at lower zooms but when you look at the map for a trip
planning, you don't zoom that much!
I don't think that's an argument against tagging it with only
access=no. I do agree, however, that highways
Hi Daniel,
2012/2/25 Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com:
Le problème est qu'il n'y a pas de construction sur la route. J'utilise ce
tag seulement lorsqu'il s'agit d'un vrai chantier...
For this reason, I still think that access=no is the cleanest
solution, no matter what mapnik renders. The only
We recently had a discussion on the talk-ca list about named railway
locations that had been tagged as railway=station (see this thread).
It was proposed to take the discussion to the tagging list in order to
come to a consensus that's consistent and in line with other
countries.
To quickly
From: James A. Treacy [tre...@debian.org], Monday, February 13, 2012 9:48 AM:
This begs the question: are there any reasons to merge areas like
wooded areas or lakes that are broken up?
I find the fine grid that shows up on Mapnik at lower zoom levels to be pretty
irritating (e.g.
Hi everyone,
I need help with a potential copyright infringement. I stumbled across this
user's edits today http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Gicl . S/he has primarily
added street names in St. Amable, but also adding a source=google. I've just
sent the user an email explaining the situation
It's a neat project. Does anybody know what the rules in regulations about this
are in Canada? Same as in the US? I know in Germany this would definitely not
fly (har har).
Best,
Harald.
From: Colin McGregor [colin.mc...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday,
Okay, so the lanes=-1 is definitely wrong and I guess I'll just delete/correct
it whenever I come across the tag and hope over time it will get sorted out. I
guess aside from substitution with correct data, there's not much to be done
about the unpaved issue. Thank for the input.
Best,
Hi everyone,
can someone please tell me what's up with the lanes=-1 and surface=unpaved tags
on most roads imported from Canvec 7? I didn't find any information on the
Canvec wiki page. Do those tags stand for number of lanes/surface unknown?
Wouldn't it then be better to remove them with a
Hi Bernie,
here's what I've used as a template. Worked with one mapper, didn't work (i.e.
no response) with five others.
Best,
Harald.
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Dear xxx,
I'm a mapper from Montreal and while checking my area for potential problems
with the upcoming license change, I've noticed that
Dear Tyler:
Could you maybe elaborate what that fix from previous versions did exactly?
Sounds like it might be a useful function for other, non-Canvec related tasks,
too.
Thanks,
Harald.
PS Sorry for TOFU; I have to use an awful e-mail client on this computer.
From: Richard Weait [rich...@weait.com]
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 3:58 PM
Subject: [Talk-ca] Milton, Ontario Canvec 8
then improve by removing quad
borders and connecting polygons.
Slightly OT: are there any good tools for speeding up that
Dear Richard, dear list,
I'm also more in the import-skeptic camp, but at the same time I acknowledge
their value, especially in less populated areas. I've spent the last couple of
weeks fixing those darn routing errors I've mentioned here before, and while
I'm making good progress it hasn't
Hi everyone,
possibly related to the recent discussions about coastline problems in Canada,
I've just noticed that the Île des Sœurs in Montreal has disappeared:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.4621lon=-73.543zoom=14layers=M
I have no idea how to fix this (or maybe it already has been
Hi everyone,
I've recently moved to Montreal from Upstate NY and have been mapping mostly in
my neighborhood. When rendering a map for routing purposes for my bike, I
noticed that the routing data for Quebec is often not that great. With the help
of the great and powerful OSM Inspector I
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