Re: [Talk-ca] Merging ways
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: Your data looks good, except for one thing: you tagged the way with the name, whereas the proper thing is to tag the relation with the name. The way should have no tags in this case (there may be other cases where the way would have tags even though is a member of a relation, but not in this case). Ah, yes... Changed that with Potlatch. I'm going to have to figure out how to do that in JOSM. How do you zoom out when selecting an area with the slippy map? All I can do is zoom in. I have to shut down the program to be able to select another area if it's larger than what I am looking at. That's really annoying. I've tried every combination of modifier keys I can think of. Where to split is up to you, and how large to make a multipoly is up to you, just as long as an individual way does not exceed 2000 nodes. Just to be sure you're aware: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:multipolygon I had looked at multipolygons before, and had a rudimentary understanding... I missed the fact that you could define the outlines of the polygon with multiple segments. Thanks for the nudge. I had started importing CanVec tiles around Bonnyville, but never merged the edges as I didn't know how. I also ran into a problem with Merkaartor not being able to handle more than 5000 nodes at a time. Perhaps I can get things working with JOSM. -- James VE6SRV ___ 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
Hi all, I have been imported Canvec data around US-QC-ON border and I'm having a similar question. When should we use Canvec data as is (natural=water) and when should we transform it into natural=coastline? Using natural=coastline on US border (to match tagging with the US portion) seems fine to me but when do we switch to the other representation? Does someone have a proposition? Daniel -Original Message- From: James A. Treacy [mailto:tre...@debian.org] Sent: August-09-11 14:32 To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Update on updating the Lake Huron shoreline Hello, Another update on the conversion of the Great Lakes shoreline plus one question. After something like 10,000 islands, the conversion of the Canadian shore of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay) to use the canvec data is completed! That is a LOT of islands. Given the magnitude of the task, few changes were made to the land side of things. That's not quite true as all the islands had all features added - including Manitoulin Island. For the areas that have been rendered it looks much better. It could be a few weeks before the remainder of the shoreline is updated. I have started moving down the St Clair River (connecting Lake Huron and Lake Erie) and have a question: Is there any preferred method to decide where to stop using coastline and to start using natural=water? There are some channels that cut off a large part of the mainland in NE Lake St. Clair which could easily be used as the shoreline. That would be a huge change from the current shoreline though. Additionally, the route of the current shoreline would be time consuming to maintain as it would involve cutting up a number of areas that canvec renders as water. I'd think the best route would be to use the definition of the shoreline as defined by some official governmental body, if such a thing exists. Any suggestions? Even an answer of 'just do what is convenient' would be helpful. -- James (Jay) Treacy tre...@debian.org ___ 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
Re: [Talk-ca] Update on updating the Lake Huron shoreline
What I did with lake superior is used the canvec data to build the big lake superior object. The multi-polygon become natural=water. then converted the entire line that was the shore to natural=coastline and connect it to the existing coastline out side the object. That way if you import the data into a GPS the lake object for canada shows up, but the is an existing coastline as well (which the US side uses a coastline) Personally I like the idea of having the lake object that way you can pull it as one object. Michael On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have been imported Canvec data around US-QC-ON border and I'm having a similar question. When should we use Canvec data as is (natural=water) and when should we transform it into natural=coastline? Using natural=coastline on US border (to match tagging with the US portion) seems fine to me but when do we switch to the other representation? Does someone have a proposition? Daniel -Original Message- From: James A. Treacy [mailto:tre...@debian.org] Sent: August-09-11 14:32 To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Update on updating the Lake Huron shoreline Hello, Another update on the conversion of the Great Lakes shoreline plus one question. After something like 10,000 islands, the conversion of the Canadian shore of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay) to use the canvec data is completed! That is a LOT of islands. Given the magnitude of the task, few changes were made to the land side of things. That's not quite true as all the islands had all features added - including Manitoulin Island. For the areas that have been rendered it looks much better. It could be a few weeks before the remainder of the shoreline is updated. I have started moving down the St Clair River (connecting Lake Huron and Lake Erie) and have a question: Is there any preferred method to decide where to stop using coastline and to start using natural=water? There are some channels that cut off a large part of the mainland in NE Lake St. Clair which could easily be used as the shoreline. That would be a huge change from the current shoreline though. Additionally, the route of the current shoreline would be time consuming to maintain as it would involve cutting up a number of areas that canvec renders as water. I'd think the best route would be to use the definition of the shoreline as defined by some official governmental body, if such a thing exists. Any suggestions? Even an answer of 'just do what is convenient' would be helpful. -- James (Jay) Treacy tre...@debian.org ___ 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: 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/?lat=43.9216lon=-80.105zoom=14layers=B000FTF ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
