Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Vs. TIGER

2011-03-10 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Sam, The TIGER data in OSM was done a number of years ago (from the 2006 TIGER/Line release). Since then the US Census Bureau has devoted a lot of resources to improve the accuracy of TIGER data, which I don't think is (I could be wrong) reflected in OSM. The old TIGER data had many of

Re: [OSM-talk] ArcGIS Online with OSM - Violation of License?

2011-02-24 Thread Dan Putler
Yep, OSM data that needs attribution. The blog entry indicates that OSM is the data source, so the attribution there is correct. While this is off topic, I will say that I was really impressed by the ESRI JS toolkit (liked the scale bar), and how snappy the response is. It appears the main

Re: [OSM-talk] Path with Pit Stops

2011-02-11 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Richard, Are you aware if they have a terms of use for these services? I can't find any on the link you sent, or on the MapQuest Open Platform Web Services page. I have an academic research project that this is perfect for, but I don't want to abuse my privileges. :-) Dan On 02/11/2011

Re: [OSM-talk] Path with Pit Stops

2011-02-11 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Ant and Richard, Thanks for the information. This isn't actually going into a we based service. It is is based on data I have on people's trips, so I can easily adjust the number of requests I send in a day so as to keep it at its current resource use level. Dan On 02/11/2011 10:36 AM,

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Street Addresses

2011-01-29 Thread Dan Putler
Hi John, You can get New York tax parcel maps inexpensively ($300 per Borough) and information needed to link it to addresses for free (I don't know if the licensing is consistent with OSM). My guess is www.ridethecity.com has licensed the parcel data and has created address points from it. The

Re: [OSM-talk] Street Addresses

2011-01-29 Thread Dan Putler
10:32 AM, Dan Putler wrote: Hi John, You can get New York tax parcel maps inexpensively ($300 per Borough) and information needed to link it to addresses for free (I don't know if the licensing is consistent with OSM). My guess is www.ridethecity.com has licensed the parcel data and has created

Re: [OSM-talk] Troll talk (was Google fumbles again in latin america)

2010-11-05 Thread Dan Putler
This list already already seen an extensive thread on the behavior of the individual in question. Isn't there a better use of our bandwidth (in terms of both bits and time) than re-hashing it? On 11/05/2010 09:54 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Apollinaris

Re: [Talk-ca] Import of Central Okanagan Regional District GIS data?

2010-11-01 Thread Dan Putler
Hi David, It looks like this data is being released into the Public Domain. The relevant part of their terms of use statement (which is for the download site, not the data itself) is: Geographic data is now available through this download site. This data is being made available to you free

Re: [Talk-ca] CanTopo!

2010-06-23 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Sam, In shapefile format, the natural choice is Statistics Canada Census Subdivision boundaries (the most recent is for 2010). Census subdivisions are typically municipalities or equivalents. Here is the link: http://geodepot.statcan.gc.ca/2006/040120011618150421032019/031904_05-eng.jsp

Re: [Talk-ca] new planet.osm

2010-04-21 Thread Dan Putler
of hours to uncompress and process the file. Since he is only interested in Ottawa I suspect there should be a way to just download Ottawa rather than the entire planet which is what I think he is doing at the moment. Any suggestions? Thanks John -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding a poly around set of points

2010-04-16 Thread Dan Putler
is needed. A square would simply cover too much space around the area that needs to be highlighted. It is for use with OpenLayers so some genius javascript solution would be nice! - Lasse. -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia

Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-14 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-14 Thread Dan Putler
wrote: On 2010-04-14, at 10:27 PM, Dan Putler dan.put...@sauder.ubc.ca wrote: Hi Tyler, OpenJUMP probably isn't the tool to do this with. Three tools come to mind: Its do-able, but probably not as easy as you had hoped. Hi Dan. Thanks for the suggestions; I am a computer programmer

Re: [Talk-ca] More Google Copying

2010-02-21 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Dan Putler
conversion team? :) -- Dave ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Dan Putler
data? -- Dave -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

2009-11-15 Thread Dan Putler
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:43 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote: Hi Dan, Both manual and donated data. I've been addressing my neighborhood in Virginia but Washington D.C. donated point level addresses. Kate Chapman On Nov 15, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Dan Putler dan.put...@sauder.ubc.ca wrote: Hi

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto aerial imagery

2009-11-09 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [Talk-ca] FW: Road Network File license conflict?

2009-03-04 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping parks

2009-01-16 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [OSM-talk] Canadian Road Network and Cities

2009-01-12 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [Talk-ca] Own experience with Geobase

2008-12-17 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase and OpenStreetMap

2008-12-15 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase and OpenStreetMap

2008-12-15 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [OSM-talk] Are there any ways with street number ranges in the OSM database?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Putler
even be desirable). Having said this, from a data user point of view, keeping the number of different schemes to the minimal acceptable number really makes life easier. Dan On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 11:52 +0100, Jochen Topf wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:56:53AM -0800, Dan Putler wrote: house

Re: [OSM-talk] Are there any ways with street number ranges in the OSM database?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Putler
It looks like they have a node for every address. Jochen On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:04:35AM -0800, Dan Putler wrote: Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Are there any ways with street number ranges in the OSM database? From: Dan Putler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

Re: [OSM-talk] Are there any ways with street number ranges in the OSM database?

2008-12-09 Thread Dan Putler
=addresseslon=8.36448lat=49.02825zoom=17 Jochen -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Are there any ways with street number ranges in the OSM database?

2008-12-08 Thread Dan Putler
centric (though this will change in the longer run), so we would need to convert the ways to shapefile format to use them. Thanks in advance. Dan -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging and rendering highways in the USAandelsewhere

2008-04-18 Thread Dan Putler
of determining efficiently what country something lies in for what I'm talking about. Tom -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM TIGER-based map quality

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Putler
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Re: [OSM-talk] OSM TIGER-based map quality

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Putler
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