I disagree. Silence won't solve anything.
I'm speaking here as a local BC mapper, and I strongly disagree with these
recent imports. I thought we had a general consensus that we'd discuss this as
a community and figure things out before restarting the import, but it seems
that some mappers
do a lot better than this, and definitely should. Let's
make this a shining example of why imports can be a good thing for OSM, not
provide fodder for those opposed to them.
Andrew Lester
Victoria, BC
From: "John Whelan"
To: "Nate Wessel"
Cc: "talk-ca"
Sent:
I agree. A selective import from CANVEC is fine and generally gives good
results. As long as you don't import things like forests and buildings (which
are both woefully out-of-date, broken, or outright wrong), there usually isn't
a problem. However, if someone just imports an entire block of
.
Andrew Lester
Victoria, BC
From: "Martijn van Exel"
To: "talk-ca"
Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 7:56:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Exit with name on node *and* destination
So apparently this is pretty common practice in Quebec. There are 755 junction
nodes that have
their ways once the block ends. I guess
we'll see what happens in a couple of days.
Andrew Lester
Victoria, BC
From: "OSM Volunteer stevea"
To: "john whelan" , "talk-ca"
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 9:54:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Dartmouthmapmaker
Bei
mappers. It's already going to take a while to clean
up the mess they've made, so we need to stop the creation of even more mess.
Andrew Lester
Victoria, BC, Canada
From: "Frederik Ramm"
To: "talk-ca"
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2018 6:18:24 AM
Subject: [Talk-ca]
While standardization may be nice, it often won't be possible even within a
single country. As has already been discussed, there are differing conventions
in different provinces, so please don't try to apply a single plan to all
provinces. How the TCH is handled in OSM will vary depending on
that.
Congratulations, Telenav. You've beaten a heavy mapper into submission. You're
free to degrade the map in the Victoria area as much as you want, and I won't
fight back anymore.
...at least the Telenav employees still get paid, so someone benefits from all
of this in some twisted way...
Andrew Lester
Hi Martijn,
Thanks for your comments. Yes, I have commented on relevant changesets, though
not every one I've come across. To be honest, there are far too many
problematic changesets to start discussions on all of them.
In using some QA tools to fix other problems, I've come across further
ry to butt in. I just like "correctness"
in the map, as you clearly do. I totally agree with the other half of your
email, that having on-the-ground work killed by bad imagery traces is terrible.
That's why I only edit places where I have actually put my own two feet on the
ground. :-)
I just discovered that user georges_telenav has been mapping turn restrictions
in the Victoria, BC area. While some of them seem valid, there are hundreds of
right-turn restrictions that can't possibly be based on either Mapillary or
OpenStreetView as stated below, because these restrictions
If people from outside of Canada have decided that our data is so bad that it
needs to be completely wiped out in its entirety, then I guess we're going to
have to do something drastic to try to prevent this.
@Michael, Frederik, Paul: would it be good enough for us to wipe out any and
all
such highways in my area, but there's a
lot that need to be fixed across very large areas and not many people working
on it.
Andrew Lester
Victoria, BC, Canada
From: Harald Kliems [mailto:kli...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 1:27 PM
To: Martijn van Exel; talk-ca
a note or fixme that the name would
be changing as of April 4. If you plan to do the same thing for the Target
locations, please let us know in advance.
Andrew Lester
Victoria, BC, Canada
- Original Message -
From: Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com
To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap talk
I couldn't see a license anywhere on that site other than the copyright notice
at the bottom of the page (which very unequivocally states we can't use
anything on the website), so I downloaded the dataset to see if there was
anything in there. Inside the XML file in the dataset are the
Why not tag it as both? The surrounding ways are already tagged with both.
...or tag the ways as coastline and make one or more relations to mark the
riverbank area. Whatever happens, having the coastline end for this short
stretch does seem wrong, and if someone is reverting changes there,
If St. John's is west, what am I out here in BC? The far west? ;)
Thanks for going through and fixing all those!
Andrew
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 16, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote:
I am happy to report that all of Canada should now be free of this issue! I
just fixed
That's exactly the tagging I used when I mapped out some campgrounds in my
area. It was the best match I could find in the wiki.
Andrew Lester
Victoria, BC
On 2013-03-04, at 7:53 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote:
I believe you want amenity=waste_disposal and waste=excrement
I haven't been doing much importing recently, but whenever I do, I _always_
download the area in JOSM first before adding anything to make sure I'm not
duplicating existing data. Without seeing an example, I really can't give an
explanation of what's happening. As far as my CANVEC importing goes,
I just took a look, and the relation was broken in two places. One of the
ways on the outer edge was missing, as was about half of one of the inner
islands. I added the necessary ways back into the relation, so it should
render properly now.
Andrew
Victoria, BC
From: Sam Dyck
if the
existing data can be fixed, the problem won't come back.
Andrew Lester
Victoria, BC
-Original Message-
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 10:54 AM
To: 'Harald Kliems'
Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Proposed mechanical edits: GeoBase
.
Andrew
From: Pierre Béland [mailto:infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:52 AM
To: Andrew Lester; 'Bruno Remy'; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re : [Talk-ca] admin_level of canadian cities
We should not confuse province and municipality levels.
Quebec city has
Looking at the history of the objects, it looks like another mapper used
Bing to map out the road network on Apr 14th, then you added CANVEC data on
top of this on the 15th, so nearly everything is now duplicated. Question:
Did you download the existing data for the town when you made your edits,
I brought it up in JOSM, and the Validator plug-in reported an unclosed way.
There was a small (2.6m) gap in the northern side of the lake. I've closed
it, and it's rendering properly now.
Andrew Lester
Victoria, BC
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