Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton edits

2010-03-08 Thread James Ewen
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: It looks to be a service road that only city maintenance staff would use. ie. for highway road work, this road serves as a temporary link, and for snow service etc. I haven't been around that area for a while.

Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton edits

2010-03-08 Thread Katie Filbert
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.comwrote: It looks to be a service road that only city maintenance staff would use. ie. for highway road work, this road serves as a temporary link, and for snow service etc. I don't think it should be listed as 'layer=-1'

[Talk-ca] Streets with frontage roads...

2010-03-08 Thread James Ewen
Okay, I went for a tour on the weekend, and ran into a place where GoogleMaps had a road that didn't exist. I decided to check OSM, and as expected, the OSM map was more accurate! Anyway, that led to me looking at other roads in the area, and I found this issue. Grandin Road is a 4 lane

Re: [Talk-ca] Google Streetview

2010-03-08 Thread simon
So, to your original question, I would assume that copying a name off a Streetview photo would NOT be okay (because it might infringe on Google's copyright and of greater concern to me, because it might be wrong). But they seem to think they can infringe on my copyrighted photos of street

Re: [Talk-ca] Google Streetview

2010-03-08 Thread Colin McGregor
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:17 PM, si...@mungewell.org wrote: So, to your original question, I would assume that copying a name off a Streetview photo would NOT be okay (because it might infringe on Google's copyright and of greater concern to me, because it might be wrong). But they seem to

Re: [Talk-ca] Google Streetview

2010-03-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:17 PM, si...@mungewell.org wrote: Geobase should have all of the Canadian street names, They don't. Not yet. The Stat Can data has many, but not all. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Google Streetview

2010-03-08 Thread James Ewen
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:17 PM, si...@mungewell.org wrote: Geobase should have all of the Canadian street names, and we can use those... just need to figure a way to display both to allow easy copying/transferal. GeoBase contains some errors... One road near the area Richard pointed out that

Re: [Talk-ca] Streets with frontage roads...

2010-03-08 Thread Katie Filbert
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 3:18 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: GeoBase has one access road on one side of the road labelled as Grandin Road, but on the other side of the road, it has no name. All three roads are tagged as residential. I'm thinking that a routing algorithm would not know

[Talk-ca] Removing old towns/many tags stripped from town locations

2010-03-08 Thread Adam Dunn
I'm not too familiar with the GEOnet Names Database [1], and it's use in OSM and such, but I did notice something rather odd, where one place in Yoho National Park (BC) [2] had a key/value pair of key=Does Not Exist. Could this be because the town no longer exists (since GEOnet retains obsolete

[Talk-ca] Edmonton Edits

2010-03-08 Thread Darren Ewaniuk
Is user xelloss on this list? Any Edmonton mappers familiar with this structure? http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/27106023 Hi everyone, I'm Darren Ewaniuk, tag-name xelloss on OSM. Thanks Richard and James for pointing me at talk-ca. I poked through the archives, and as guessed earlier

[Talk-ca] Edmonton - OpenCity Workshop - review?

2010-03-08 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Im curious on how the OpenCity Workshop went on the weekend. Especially in regard to understanding the licence. (As it's still very confusing) http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/open_data/open-data-terms-of-use.aspx Thanks, Sam Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: