Re: [Talk-ca] Larder Lake, Ontario completely missing

2013-10-02 Per discussione Andrew Allison
On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 18:15 -0400, James Mast wrote: Anybody want to import this town? It's completely missing in OSM data except for {66}. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/note/32942 -James ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Community boundaries

2013-02-25 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Stephen: On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 12:31 -0400, Stephen Berthelot wrote: New to OSM and learning how to edit. My home address shows the right location on the map but lists it as being in a nearby community. How do i set the size of communities? What part of Canada are you in? Andrew

[Talk-ca] GeoBase tags

2013-02-25 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Hello: Are the Geobase attribution tags relevant, should I leave them in or strip them out? Andrew aka PurpleMustang, CancevImport signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Medicine Hat, Alberta

2013-01-29 Per discussione Andrew Allison
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 16:37 -0500, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: Le 13-01-26 12:09 PM, Andrew Allison a ←crit : [...]I senf Smillence a copy of this email with a welcome note. Could you share your welcome note? I'd like to come up with a template of some sort. Thank you. F. Well I'm

Re: [Talk-ca] Medicine Hat, Alberta

2013-01-26 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Looks like MeMaps is or used to live in Medicine Hat http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MeMaps/diary Or even better looks like he joined two days ago and is mapping today :-) http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Smillence/edits I senf Smillence a copy of this email with a welcome note. Is there

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

2012-10-15 Per discussione Andrew Allison
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 14:03 -0700, Clifford Snow wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Maury Markowitz maury.markow...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2012-10-10 Per discussione 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

[talk-au] Introduction

2012-07-28 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Hello: I'm doing some arm chair mapping of Broome and surrounding area from Canada. I'd appreciate a quick review from someone more familiar with the local area. I might be mistaking dirt tracks for dried creek beds. Any mentoring would be appreciated :-) From way up here, looks

[Talk-ca] New flooding between Alexandria and Montreal

2012-05-31 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Hello: I'm seeing some new flooding west of Montreal. I can't find the break. Thanks Andrew http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.348lon=-73.909zoom=9layers=M signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

2012-04-17 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Hello: I would take from this discussion that canvec data needs to be imported into the white spaces of Canada. I may be missing some historical experience / discussion of this process. Part of the fun aspect of OSM is finding things wrong on the map and correcting it. I

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

2012-04-15 Per discussione Andrew Allison
On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 11:09 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: Dear All, Let's talk about it again. How do we feel about the bulk copying of information from a permitted source into OpenStreetMap in Canada? To be clear, I'm not suggesting that we discuss whether external data sources are good

[Talk-ca] Cleaning up Manitoba and Saskatchewan

2012-04-11 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Hello: Any thoughts on how to clean up Manitoba Saskatchewan from those red shot gun blasts. Namely around Brandon, and Yorkton Andrew signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Talk-ca mailing list

[Talk-ca] cleanup

2012-04-09 Per discussione Andrew Allison
So the redaction has began. Any idea how long it will take? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-us] Remapping coastlines

2012-03-25 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Hello, ,my US counterparts: Originally I have not been editing the US side of the great lakes. But with the deadline approaching I'll do some cross boarder mapping. That is unless someone on the US side of the boarder would prefer the great lakes and St Lawrence seaway.

[Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline

2012-01-28 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Hello: I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data. Any gotchas that I should look out for in replacing coastline data. Pros and Cons of shorter ways. Does direction matter? How often is coastline data updated? Hope I keep every bodies feet

[Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline

2012-01-28 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Sorry I replied privately by mistake, here a group email On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 21:36 -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33:09AM -0500, Andrew Allison wrote: Hello: I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data. What areas need to be replaced? I presume you mean

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup

2012-01-26 Per discussione Andrew Allison
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:23 -0500, Richard Weait wrote: Most of the Canadian data that needs cleaning is very low impact. Two of the high-volume decline accounts are primarily imports that have not been subsequently edited. That means the effected data can easily be re-imported for a

Re: [OSM-talk] user diaries not included in blog feed?

2012-01-12 Per discussione Andrew Allison
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 08:46 -0500, Josh Doe wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 12/01/12 12:56, Josh Doe wrote: It seems to me that the user diary RSS feed is broken: http://www.openstreetmap.org/diary/rss The last update is from December 17,

[Talk-ca] Tagging Rail POIs - Help please

2012-01-11 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Hello: I'm scratching my head as to an appropriate tag? Seems odd that there isn't a reference to something like man_made:sign_post railway:marker railway:location railway:signal etc. Punt the ball to the tagging list? tagg...@openstreetmap.org Andrew

Re: [Talk-ca] Can't login to OpenStreetMap

2011-04-14 Per discussione Andrew Allison
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 12:20 -0300, Connors, Bernie (SNB) wrote: Is anybody else having a problem this morning? When I try to bring up the login page I get the following error from Chrome: Works for meFirefox Linux x86_64 Andrew

[Talk-ca] GeoCaching.com - openstreetmap

2011-01-15 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Hello: I just stumbled upon a beta of www.geocaching.com where the users can select which map to use. Openstreetmap being one of the choices. Andrew ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-ca] geobase error

2009-05-11 Per discussione Andrew Allison
I receive this reply when reporting a geobase error and apparently supportgeob...@nrcan.gc.ca is not the place to report errors. Hi Andrew, GeoBase invite all users of the NRN data Collection to communicate directly to the provincial partners all observations detected

[Talk-ca] geobase import summary

2008-12-11 Per discussione Andrew Allison
Hello: I'm looking forward to the geobase data import. From reading the various emails have I grasped the options correctly? Initial ideas: 1 - Delete all of OSM Canada and replace with geobase data. 2 - Just upload the geobase data and have users clean it up. 3

[OSM-talk] not-in-map_features / poi-without-name

2008-05-29 Per discussione Andrew Allison
I haven't seen anything in the list but in the last few days I'm seeing a lot of points being labeled not-in-map_features or poi-without-name. looks to be bridges, golf courses, banks, even some type of roads Here are some links to the sort of thing I talking about