[Talk-ca] Weird Rendering issues.

2011-09-05 Thread G. Michael Carter
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.98355lon=-77.74038zoom=17layers=M There seems to be a lot of weird rendering issues around Lake Ontario. Any one have any ideas what the light green is? Michael -- * G. Michael Carter* Contact: H: 1-519-940-8935 | W: 1-905-267-8494 | M: 1-519-215-1869

Re: [Talk-ca] Weird Rendering issues.

2011-09-05 Thread G. Michael Carter
. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.cawrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.98355lon=-77.74038zoom=17layers=M There seems to be a lot of weird rendering issues around Lake Ontario. Any one have any ideas what the light green is? Michael

[Talk-ca] Any way to put a watch on an object?

2011-09-05 Thread G. Michael Carter
I finally got the Lake Ontario object reconstructed. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1206310 If anyone starts deleting portions of it again well get the rendering problems like we've been having. (aka lakes disappearing and islands sinking) If I could watch the object for changes

Re: [Talk-ca] Your new coastline

2011-09-02 Thread G. Michael Carter
I wish they'd updated the Bing high resolution images In Orangeville there's a new mall, but only one image (of three tiles) has the new mall, the other has the cleared field from when they started. I can only put in half the buildings. Any ideas on how often they update the high res? On

Re: [Talk-ca] Your new coastline

2011-08-31 Thread G. Michael Carter
Any eta on when you'll be finish with the lake Ontario coastline? Sent from my iPhone On 2011-09-01, at 12:19 AM, Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:23 AM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: Andrew, In addition to the missing lakes and marshes

[Talk-ca] Your new coastline

2011-08-29 Thread G. Michael Carter
Andrew, In addition to the missing lakes and marshes documented on talk-ca here's another if your keeping a list: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.98365lon=-77.7393zoom=17layers=M Also as another FYI you may have a gap somewhere in the coastline which could be causing a lot of the rendering

[Talk-ca] Lake Ontario Missing...

2011-08-28 Thread G. Michael Carter
I just loaded the latest data for Ontario. I noticed my Lake ontario object is missing. Is there a reason or was it just an oversight? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Update on updating the Lake Huron shoreline

2011-08-22 Thread G. Michael Carter
___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- * G. Michael Carter* Contact: H

Re: [Talk-ca] Ping John Whelan?

2011-06-07 Thread G. Michael Carter
OK curiosity is getting the better of me. What's the issue? Why the sudden panic attack to remove data? (I must probably missed that part :) What's wrong with CT/ODbL? On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:24 PM, john whelan

Re: [Talk-ca] Lake Simcoe - two versions?

2011-05-30 Thread G. Michael Carter
Barrie area was probably my import before we had OSM files from CanVec. Can't remember. I think the duplicate is because at the time I couldn't get an answer on what to do with the coastline. But since the lake is self contained it can probably be deleted. Michael On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 4:33

Re: [Talk-ca] Great Lakes shoreline

2011-04-20 Thread G. Michael Carter
-- * G. Michael Carter* Contact: H: 1-519-940-8935 | W: 1-905-267-8494 | M: 1-519-215-1869 | F: 1-519-941-0009 Google Talk: xmpp:mikeycarter1...@gmail.com http://livedvd.carterfamily.ca/http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.9216lon=-80.105zoom=14layers=B000FTF http://www.openstreetmap.org

[Talk-ca] CanVec Contour Lines

2010-09-27 Thread G. Michael Carter
Would it be possible to get the Contour Lines as OSM files? I import them into my GPS from the shp files. Just though it would be nice to have without the manual conversion step I do. If not, no big deal. Just thought I'd ask. Michael ___

[Talk-ca] Any one on Rogers network?

2010-09-24 Thread G. Michael Carter
For the last month b.tile.openstreetmap.org times out and I get tile coming soon (aka 404 errors) ... and not the only rogers problem I have I might add... When I access it from acanac or bell or rogers 3g network it's fine. Two questions: 1. Any one on rogers? and if so can you send me

[Talk-ca] Sinking islands...

2010-09-23 Thread G. Michael Carter
I was importing data in the Georgian Bay area and I noticed something. If an island is natural=land it renders in mapnik as white, regardless of the outer multipolygon. if you have natrual=wood or possibly others, it sinks if it's not role=inner. This is at least what I've observed so

Re: [Talk-ca] Sinking islands...

2010-09-23 Thread G. Michael Carter
emove the polygon natural=land and the polygon natural=wood will render properly in the hole created by the inner component of the natural=water multipolygon. Daniel -Original Message- From: talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of G. Michael C

Re: [Talk-ca] Sinking islands...

2010-09-23 Thread G. Michael Carter
. The second one is much more complex (from my side). Can someone try it and send me the conclusion? Daniel *From:* G. Michael Carter [mailto:mikeycarter1...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *G. Michael Carter *Sent:* September 23, 2010 10

Re: [Talk-ca] Missing islands and coastline

2010-09-23 Thread G. Michael Carter
and natural=coastline for the Great Lakes. I'd like to have this consistent over the Great Lakes but am not sure which one to use. Please comment which one would be better/worse and why? Thanks, N. On 9/20/2010 10:20 AM, G. Michael Carter wrote: It was brought to my attention

Re: [Talk-ca] Sinking islands...

2010-09-23 Thread G. Michael Carter
points) within the next year. From: G. Michael Carter [mailto:mikeycarter1...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of G. Michael Carter Sent: September 23, 2010 10:48 To: Bgin, Daniel Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap

[Talk-ca] natural=land

2010-09-23 Thread G. Michael Carter
Is there any case where we'd be using natural=land any more? I've been thinking of taking the osm data in my db and creating a list of common errors. Something like http://keepright.ipax.at http://keepright.ipax.at/ but as just a check list. One thing I'm going to scan for is identical

Re: [Talk-ca] Getting my edits to show up in Canvec Activity?

2010-09-22 Thread G. Michael Carter
The way my system identifies which grid changes are in, is based on an imported text file, and postgresql's spatial engine. Cache.txt which contains this sort of thing: 030L05.osm -8042.4244862 -79.803944142.5 030L11.osm -79.5

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: GeoBase vs CanVec

2010-08-20 Thread G. Michael Carter
From an observer perspective. In the areas I've entered CanVec v6 seems the next version of GeoBase.A lot of roads are the similar but CanVect has a lot more detailed points than the currently imported GeoBase. Ie geobase import has a winding roads as a set of inverted triangles were

Re: [Talk-ca] editing a canvect building question

2010-08-18 Thread G. Michael Carter
My logic... if it's a new building, it's a new object so the tag references can go. As for delete or modify... the end result, we want accurate objects, so in my opinion do what ever is easier. On 18/08/10 01:57 PM, Louis-Marius Gendreau wrote: Hi a building here

Re: [Talk-ca] Hiding an object

2010-08-17 Thread G. Michael Carter
, Garmin, or TomTom). It is up to the render engine/converter to improve how it handles the (supposedly) correct database. Having said that, check out http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:osmarender:render Adam On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:15 PM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca mailto:mi

[Talk-ca] Searching for addresses...

2010-08-13 Thread G. Michael Carter
With the new canvec address data searches like 258 Broadway, Orangeville, Ontario now return the exact spot for that address. However, 258 Broadway, Orangeville, ON returns nothing. Is this a case that we're missing data somewhere or OpenStreetMap.org search is not handling abbreviations?

[Talk-ca] Fwd: Copying campsite numbers and features to OSM

2010-08-12 Thread G. Michael Carter
- From: mi...@carterfamily.ca [mailto:mi...@carterfamily.ca] Sent: July 29, 2010 9:00 AM To: Ontario Parks - Comments (MNR) Subject: Copying campsite numbers and features to OSM Name: G. Michael Carter Subject: Copying campsite numbers and features to OSM Park Name: Comments: Every year I visit

[Talk-ca] How does JOSM save Changes?

2010-08-12 Thread G. Michael Carter
My computer froze last night. I think it missed only the relationships.How does JOSM save fact there is a change to an object in the OSM file? I get the following from my working file: [mcar...@liandra Changes]$ grep node Working5.osm | wc -l 39261 [mcar...@liandra Changes]$ grep way

[Talk-ca] Ignore that last question I figured it out.

2010-08-12 Thread G. Michael Carter
Seems JOSM has a tag on the object called action node id='20266016' action='delete' ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] 052A06.zip Missing

2010-08-11 Thread G. Michael Carter
All of 052A is there except http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/osm/pub/052/A/052A06.zip (Thunder Bay) Did something happen in that grid? Michael ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[OSM-talk] Coastline missing in Lake Superior - in case anyonenotices...

2010-08-10 Thread G. Michael Carter
Short answer yes, I'm taking responsibility! I've put in a temporary join on on the US side so it's a complete object while I fix up the Canadian side. At the rate I'm going I should be tomorrow. As for same level of accuracy... that's why I'm deleting it. ;) The coastline data is

Re: [Talk-ca] Any way to dirty large areas of Mapnik?

2010-08-10 Thread G. Michael Carter
am not about to go and do the whole "/dirty" thing on all the tiles that are not rendering correctly. :) -- G. Michael Carter Contact: H: 1-519-940-8935 | W: 1-905-267-8494 | M: 1-519-215-1869 | F: 1-519-941-0009 Google Talk: xmpp:mikeycarter1...@gmail.com

[Talk-ca] Coastline missing in Lake Superior - in case anyone notices...

2010-08-10 Thread G. Michael Carter
I'm currently working on importing CanVec data around Lake Superior... the coast line was really getting in the way, so I'm deleting it. I'm actually joining them to the CanVec water corners... but it's probably creating a coastal hole, not really sure if the join is actually working. My

Re: [Talk-ca] Coastline missing in Lake Superior - in case anyone notices...

2010-08-10 Thread G. Michael Carter
02:29 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote: what im doing is keeping the coastline in tact, and adding in more detail as i go along, and merging the nodes with the land/water features edge as i go along. you might want to message the talk-us list as you go along. cheers, sam On 8/10/10, G. Michael Carter

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Coastline missing in Lake Superior - in case anyone notices...

2010-08-10 Thread G. Michael Carter
I'm perfectly fine killing the coastal tag from the Canadian side on all fresh water lakes... makes more sense to me. Plus it doesn't import very well into my Garmin GPS anyways... you end up pulling half the globe just to get the connecting lines, since it's not a single object. Michael

[Talk-ca] CanVec Boundries?

2010-08-06 Thread G. Michael Carter
Do we have the lat/long boundaries of the new canvec tiles anywhere? (that why I don't have to download all of canada to get them) Mikey ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Merging CanVec data, updating status

2010-07-30 Thread G. Michael Carter
Did anyone hear that loud bang last night...? That was my head repeatedly hitting the table while I repeated the words look before you leap! :-) I spent 1 hour updating and processing a CanVec tile. When I was finished I ran the verification step and fixed duplicates. Then when I started

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging CanVec data, updating status

2010-07-30 Thread G. Michael Carter
Jan, 2010 so it could be possible to scan for all of Canada.) I'll have more on Tuesday when I come back from camping thought. Michael On 30/07/10 12:20 PM, Tyler Gunn wrote: On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:06:47 -0400, "G. Michael Carter" mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: I think the s

[Talk-ca] Joining Trails to roads.

2010-07-29 Thread G. Michael Carter
As my previous e-mail I've been playing around with routing based on pedestrian and cycling. I'd say, in my area, 1 in 20 trails are connected to the roads. I checked the Toronto and Brampton area. Same issue. Trails that cross roads, need to have a connecting node. Also they need to join up

Re: [Talk-ca] Joining Trails to roads.

2010-07-29 Thread G. Michael Carter
these. Getting hold of all the editors in a particular region, very unlikely some only edit for one session for a start. Cheerio John On 29 July 2010 09:24, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: As my previous e-mail I've been playing around with routing based on pedestrian

[Talk-ca] Routing-Trails

2010-07-28 Thread G. Michael Carter
Seems walking routable maps use the trails only if their connected to the roads. ie: http://maps.cloudmade.com/?lat=43.906319lng=-80.13696zoom=16directions=43.902082417856064,-80.13610124588013,43.909333095564016,-80.12887001037598travel=footstyleId=1opened_tab=1 So any ideas how to handle

[Talk-ca] Labelling camp site numbers.

2010-07-28 Thread G. Michael Carter
A few months ago I entered the roads for campgrounds specifically : http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.32948lon=-79.3248zoom=16layers=M It's not complete but a good start. I had two thoughts. 1. If I grab the camp site numbering off the reservations website and/or campground maps would

Re: [Talk-ca] Labelling camp site numbers.

2010-07-28 Thread G. Michael Carter
er... Sorry... went on a tangent... :-) Mikey On 28/07/10 06:49 PM, Gerald A wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:08 PM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: 1. If I grab the camp site numbering off the reservations website and/or campground maps would that be a violation of copyright?

Re: [Talk-ca] Hiking trails - Is bad data better than no data?

2010-07-26 Thread G. Michael Carter
You have my vote. Just having the inaccurate data will draw more people to the trail. Higher percent chance of getting more gps data for the area. Sent from my iPhone On 2010-07-25, at 10:57 PM, Darryl Shpak dar...@shpak.ca wrote: Hey all, A quick question here, since I'm somewhat

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Data Oddities

2010-07-19 Thread G. Michael Carter
sure I understand the problem you describe. Is it a problem with the geometric model? However, there is something I'm sure of - Nodes must be merged at Canvec tile limits to keep data integrity. Daniel -Original Message- From: talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-ca-boun...@openst

[Talk-ca] CanVec Data Oddities

2010-07-18 Thread G. Michael Carter
I've been noticing some very rare occurrences where the track, park and campsite objects didn't make sense. Found two causes: 1. When deleting objects, like says woods, if it shares common nodes with another object like a campsite or rapids there's a 50/50 chance the delete will delete the

Re: [Talk-ca] User sundance

2010-07-18 Thread G. Michael Carter
about VReimer's data now (although there's lots of that to clean up). :) Tyler -- G. Michael Carter Contact: H: 1-519-940-8935 | W: 1-905-267-8494 | M: 1-519-215-1869 | F: 1-519-941-0009 Google Talk: xmpp:mikeycarter1...@gmail.com ___ Talk

Re: [Talk-ca] CANVEC data OSM files

2010-07-18 Thread G. Michael Carter
I just started selecting things like this: sed s/node /node version=\'1\' timestamp=\'2009-08-11T15:16:48Z\' /g $x | \ sed s/relation /relation version=\'1\' timestamp=\'2009-08-11T15:16:48Z\' /g |\ sed s/way /way version=\'1\' timestamp=\'2009-08-11T15:16:48Z\' /g |\

Re: [Talk-ca] Duplicate overlapping roads...

2010-07-14 Thread G. Michael Carter
, or if there were edits done after the geobase import. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:25 PM, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: Since I've had 100% accuracy to my known areas on CanVec data (well within 5 metres anyways) I'd tend to trust it, over

Re: [Talk-ca] Duplicate overlapping roads...

2010-07-14 Thread G. Michael Carter
I've attached the two examples. Our family goes for a walk around these streets nightly and I've taken my gps with me. The CanVec data is bang on. GeoBase is close but as I've said, CanVec is closer. Mikey On 13/07/10 09:22 AM, Bégin, Daniel wrote: Michael, Yes, the data before and

Re: [Talk-ca] Tracking who's working on which CanVec tile?

2010-07-14 Thread G. Michael Carter
Anyone have the link for the google chart handy? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Deleting existing roads...

2010-07-14 Thread G. Michael Carter
OK this is really starting to bother me. Roads are scary!!! I tried seeing if I could take two CanVec block and merge them with existing roads. Well I created a mess and ended up deleting the blocks. CanVec data has many little differences... ie: where the nodes are, barriers, location of the

[Talk-ca] Routing

2010-07-13 Thread G. Michael Carter
Ok I've loaded just my home town into my Garmin 60cx. If I click on an intersection and say go-to it draws a nice route with all the canvec data I uploaded. However, the find isn't working. If I click find - address. There is no addresses listed. Is this missing data on my part or a

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing

2010-07-13 Thread G. Michael Carter
The address interpolation is on either side of the road, and hover over the road and you do get the street name. On 13/07/10 12:15 PM, Tyler Gunn wrote: However, the find isn't working. If I click find - address. There is no addresses listed. Is this missing data on my

Re: [Talk-ca] Duplicate overlapping roads...

2010-07-12 Thread G. Michael Carter
enstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- G. Michael Carter Contact: H: 1-519-940-8935 | W: 1-905-267-8494 | M: 1-519-215-1869 | F: 1-519-941-0009 Google Talk: xmpp:mikeycarter1...@gmail.com ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@op

[Talk-ca] Duplicate overlapping roads...

2010-07-09 Thread G. Michael Carter
Sam always says I should let people know what I'm up to. Today I'm actually going to listen... ;-) I'm working in three areas currently, outward in circles around: Orangeville (040P), Pickering (030M), and Rock Point PP (030L). (and trying to pull in Lake Ontario shore line) I'm

[Talk-ca] Second Priority request.

2010-07-07 Thread G. Michael Carter
Now that I have everything from the first priority request... opps I have a hole in my grid. I forgot to request 041 A. PLEASE. :-D Thanks, Michael ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-ca] Priority on OSM/CanVec

2010-07-06 Thread G. Michael Carter
Could I get a higher priority on: 031 C - Bon Echo PP area 031 D - Barrie 031 E - Algonquin 031 F - Algonquin 041 H - Parry Sound 041 L - Killarney PP area Thanks, Michael -- G. Michael Carter Contact: H: 1-519-940-8935 | W: 1-905-267-8494 | M: 1-519-215-1869 | F: 1-519-941-0009 Google

[Talk-ca] Accuracy of CanVec vs Yahoo?

2010-07-06 Thread G. Michael Carter
. But what about buildings? Mikey -- G. Michael Carter Contact: H: 1-519-940-8935 | W: 1-905-267-8494 | M: 1-519-215-1869 | F: 1-519-941-0009 Google Talk: xmpp:mikeycarter1...@gmail.com ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

[Talk-ca] JOSM Difference?

2010-07-06 Thread G. Michael Carter
Is there any way to apply a minus on the OSM files? ie: Select a CanVec grid, and open in JOSM. Then click a download button and it removes any object which are identical? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-ca] CanVec Data

2010-06-07 Thread G. Michael Carter
How close are we to getting these released? I'm anxious to get started. Will we have the option to get these in 50k blocks? All the current canvec data I've imported is in the 50k blocks thus the new data should fit nicely. ___ Talk-ca mailing

[Talk-ca] OSM CanVec.

2010-06-03 Thread G. Michael Carter
I think I may have missed the goal here? Are we evaluating the OSM files and trying to make the source better or just requesting OSM files and putting them in? I'm ready to go if we're just putting them in. ;-) ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm sample files are ready

2010-06-02 Thread G. Michael Carter
Any possibility of getting 041P16 (Orangeville) area as a sample. It's where I live. Figure local knowledge would be a good way to verify the area too ;-) Mikey ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Future...

2010-06-02 Thread G. Michael Carter
I know I'm jumping way way ahead... but once we get all the CanVec.osm files imported for all of Canada... what happens with the next version of CanVec data? Are there going to be diff files or is there a program out there to compare the difference of current OSM data to a new file?

[Talk-ca] 040P16 - Orangeville

2010-06-02 Thread G. Michael Carter
-polygon residential areas don't have any tags same as the school. I suspect none of the multipolygon's have tags. That's all I see so far. But amazing work! Mikey -- G. Michael Carter Contact: H: 1-519-940-8935 | W: 1-905-267-8494 | M: 1-519-215-1869 | F: 1-519-941-0009 Google Talk

[Talk-ca] PR person for Canada/Ontario?

2010-06-01 Thread G. Michael Carter
measurements. Then have that data uploaded to OSM. I've tried three times to draft up a letter to my local MP and the Minister of Education but can't quite get it right. Do we have any PR experts which could run with the idea? Mikey -- G. Michael Carter Contact: sip:mikeycar...@fedoraproject.org

[OSM-talk] Canadian Road Network and Cities

2009-01-12 Thread G. Michael Carter
Hope I have the right place. I was playing around with the OSM and have a few suggestions/questions. 1. The Canadian Road Network is freely available from http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/search.do?produit=nrnlanguage=en and http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/geo/index-eng.cfm