I was wrong there is one sign up(i'm glad I drove there) http://openstreetview.com/details/21585/18 See? no "ê".
On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:37 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is highly questionable about two levels of Government reaching out to > the community to help them with complying/importing authoritative data? US > has tiger data(I'm aware it's not the greatest example), Canada has > (CanVec). Now we are down to a municipal level and the data(especially > addresses that they maintain a database of for emergency services, etc) is > incorrect and doesnt match real life. As for the building footprints I have > addressed this already: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Canada:Ontario: > Ottawa/Import/Plan#Data_quality > > We seem to be turning in a circle around "building source data is not > publicly available", it's not because of it's held up by bureaucracy which > is non-constructive. The source data was handed to StatsCan which we use as > our source(I linked you the geojson that has 2 attributes added to it so > JOSM wouldn't render a bunch of tagless ways and could make sense of it, if > you want the original data: remove both tags). > > I completely understand that you don't want a bunch of garbage data added > to OSM that will take years to clean up, neither do we, hell it's where we > live and we'd be only punishing ourselves! The thing you have to understand > is this preparation has been going for over a year now (see: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Canada: > Ontario:Ottawa/Import&action=history (documentation started)). Even > though we had an incompatible license, the data was still available to play > with and analyse > > I get your concerns of problems that may arise during this import, this is > what this process is for is it not? To address concerns people may have. > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:50 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If you are complaining that it doesnt have "ê" you are going to have to >> talk to the city of ottawa as that street does not have it(I know it I live >> near there). There is no street sign as it is a private development. Take a >> look at: >> http://maps.ottawa.ca/geoottawa/ >> or google maps or even geobase roads(canvec) there is no "ê" >> or even: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/45.47941/-75.52464 >> >> Maybe you can create a language board as Québec did to control French >> display, but in Ontario! (https://www.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/accueil.aspx) >> >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Christoph Hormann <chris_horm...@gmx.de> >> wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 20 October 2016, James wrote: >>> > Why are you linking a french wiki page of forest? >>> > >>> > Un Foret >>> > Des Forets >>> > >>> >>> I think it's "des forêts". >>> >>> Notice the difference? >>> >>> -- >>> Christoph Hormann >>> http://www.imagico.de/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 外に遊びに行こう！ >> > > > > -- > 外に遊びに行こう！ > -- 外に遊びに行こう！
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