Hi Anatolijs, Good luck. If you need any help OSM Ottawa would love to help.
Cheers John (OSM user rps333) John Marshall On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Anatolijs Venovcevs < gist...@happyvalley-goosebay.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > > I’ve been a longtime fan of Open Street Map but this is the first time I > ever decided to help contribute to it. I am the GIS technologist for the > Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada - > https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/53.3085/-60.3463 > > > > It’s a small, isolated community of approximately 8,100 people and I’m the > only one with any GIS training and experience. As a result, I’m responsible > for doing just about everything to assist the town in geospatial-related > functions and have a very tight budget and not a lot of time to them. One > of the things there’s been a real interest in is developing some sort of a > basic interactive web map for the town’s public information (zoning, water > and sewer lines, attractions for our tourist map, etc.). I’m planning on > using QGIS plugin qgis2web to do that and use an OpenStreetMap background. > > > > Before I can do that, OpenStreetMap data for the town needs to be updated. > It looks to me approximately five years out of date and the town has been > experiencing a major boom in the last few years. Currently, the town has > possession of an updated street centerline network (digitized from 40 cm > resolution orthorectified Worldview 2 satellite imagery) and an up-to-date > civic number system with building footprints and parcels for recreational > spaces and etc. coming later this year. I’d like to share them with the OSM > community. > > > > Before I do that, I’m looking for community buy-in for the project. I will > start with manually adding the new streets that have been built over the > last few years and correct any information within the town boundaries that > no longer represents reality on the ground. If that’s ok with all of you, > I’d like to make the OSM web mapping for my corner of Canada a little > better. > > > > Thank you, > > > > *Anatolijs Venovcevs* > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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