CanVec was what I aligned to. That and local knowledge - I know parts of UBC extremely well, having been there for about 7-8 years.
If the Vancouver license isn't compatible with OSM the wiki should be edited - it says it's acceptable as is. -----Original Message----- From: samvekem...@gmail.com [mailto:samvekem...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sam Vekemans Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:25 AM To: john whelan Cc: Paul Norman; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] UBC, Vancouver orthography, and street alignment .... were still waiting for OpenStreetMap to change it's licence :) lol... but anyway, geocommons.com is a good temporary home for the p files :) and having the data on standby just waiting to use used is helpfull. cheers, sam On 10/31/10, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was under the impression that the City of Vancouver "Open" data > along with Ottawa's and Calgary's wasn't quite open enough for OSM > use. I assume you aligned with CANVEC data and merely visually > confirmed it against Vancouver's data? > > I understand they were looking at changing the license, if you have > any news on this I'd be grateful. > > Thanks John > > On 31 October 2010 00:18, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > >> UBC in Vancouver has been suffering from issues of building >> misalignment because the Yahoo orthography is misaligned with the >> ground and suffers from distortion[1]. The City of Vancouver offers >> some mapping data [2] which can be used with OSM. I've taken 16 tiles >> that cover most of UBC and corrected most of the streets to these as >> these reflect the GPS traces, CanVec data, and my knowledge from >> being a student. They are also high resolution, being listed as 40cm, >> but I can easily make out smaller features. >> >> I've also done some micro-mapping around the SUB, Buchanan, the Chan >> Center and Rose garden, and down by CEME. >> >> As the process to convert the .ecw files is a long and >> computationally heavy one if anyone wants the resulting slippymap >> which can be used with the JOSM slippymap plugin and is regularly at >> UBC I could burn them onto a CD. >> >> I also have all of Vancouver processing to make a slippymap, but it >> has only been about 25 hours so it is not finished yet. If anyone >> wants that, it'll take multiple DVDs. Of course, anyone could >> recreate it from the downloaded files but anticipate gdal2tiles >> taking about 30-40 hours on a good computer. >> >> If anyone notices misaligned streets at UBC and isn't able to get the >> Vancouver orthography working I'd appreciate knowing and I can align them. >> >> [1] >> < >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Canada:British_Columb >> ia:Van >> couver&oldid=552230#University_of_British_Columbia<http://wiki.openst >> reetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Canada:British_Columbia:Van%0Acouver&ol >> did=552230#University_of_British_Columbia> >> > >> [2] <http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
