[Talk-ca] Multiple university departments in one building
Hello, I am trying to contribute to filling the gaps on McGill campus on OSM at the moment and I ran into a problem which I haven't fund a satisfactory answer for yet. We have several buildings on campus which are home to multiple departments, all buildings have a building name. I looked the OSM wiki feature pages and in the OSM forum and found the following approach as apparently standard procedure: 1) Map building outline with building = university , name= XYZ building, operator=McGill University 2) Add a node inside the building for each department with office=university, description=department name This produces irritating blue dots in the outline of the building, see https://osm.org/go/cIrNt~j2u When I looked at other universities, I found e.g. a node with amenity=university, name=department name. But when looking at the OSM wiki feature page for universities[1] it says you only should use amenity=university for the whole campus. The office tag I found when looking for multiple businesses in one building, but the blue dot aren't nice. Any suggestions on how to map this elegantly? Thank you, Tim (aka AGeographer) [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=university ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] canvec imports
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 As long as you don't import things like forests and buildings (which are both woefully out-of-date, broken, or outright wrong), there usually isn't a problem.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 data without inspecting it, that's when we run into the visible issues that the peanut gallery picks apart. Andrew Victoria, BC From: "James" To: "Andrew" Cc: "talk-ca" Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:58:19 AM Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] canvec imports not sure why Canvec always gets shat uppon, their water features are great and pretty accurate, the forest/landcover on the other hand needs fixing before import. I think it's clear enough on the canvec wiki page that only experienced mappers/importers should attempt a canvec import. On Tue., Nov. 27, 2018, 12:54 p.m. Andrew < andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com wrote: FYI Canada I made a few imports to canada a while ago and apparently raised the ire of someone. Here we go again :-( --- This was the first message >>Please, fix issues caused by this changeset for example in region of Yup, that was it, I was like ok, whats wrong with the changeset? Found an overlapping way. Figured that was it :-) And now Where is documentation page of this import? Can you link to discussion done before this import started? And So On. --- Hi PurpleMustang, XXX X has sent you a message through OpenStreetMap with the subject Re: Canvec Import: XXX X On 2018-11-27 17:21:34 UTC PurpleMustang wrote: Hello: This import has been a work in progress for about 10 years now :-) https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase/Announcement Andrew Note that currently active import should have a wiki page describing what exactly is imported and how data is processed - see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_ Oh Well Here we go again Andrew aka CanvecImports ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] canvec imports
not sure why Canvec always gets shat uppon, their water features are great and pretty accurate, the forest/landcover on the other hand needs fixing before import. I think it's clear enough on the canvec wiki page that only experienced mappers/importers should attempt a canvec import. On Tue., Nov. 27, 2018, 12:54 p.m. Andrew FYI Canada > > I made a few imports to canada a while ago and apparently > raised the ire of someone. > > Here we go again :-( > > --- > This was the first message > > >>Please, fix issues caused by this changeset for example in region of > > Yup, that was it, I was like ok, whats wrong with the changeset? Found > an overlapping way. Figured that was it :-) > > And now > > Where is documentation page of this import? Can you link to discussion > done before this import started? > > And So On. > > --- > Hi PurpleMustang, > > XXX X has sent you a message through OpenStreetMap with the > subject Re: Canvec Import: > > XXX X > On 2018-11-27 17:21:34 UTC PurpleMustang wrote: > > Hello: This import has been a work in progress for about 10 years now > :-) > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase/Announcement > > Andrew > > Note that currently active import should have a wiki page describing > what exactly is imported and how data is processed - see > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_ > > > > Oh Well Here we go again > > Andrew > aka CanvecImports > > > ___ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
[Talk-ca] canvec imports
FYI Canada I made a few imports to canada a while ago and apparently raised the ire of someone. Here we go again :-( --- This was the first message >>Please, fix issues caused by this changeset for example in region of Yup, that was it, I was like ok, whats wrong with the changeset? Found an overlapping way. Figured that was it :-) And now Where is documentation page of this import? Can you link to discussion done before this import started? And So On. --- Hi PurpleMustang, XXX X has sent you a message through OpenStreetMap with the subject Re: Canvec Import: XXX X On 2018-11-27 17:21:34 UTC PurpleMustang wrote: Hello: This import has been a work in progress for about 10 years now :-) https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase/Announcement Andrew Note that currently active import should have a wiki page describing what exactly is imported and how data is processed - see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_ Oh Well Here we go again Andrew aka CanvecImports ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
