[Talk-ca] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released
http://dd.weatheroffice.gc.ca/meteocode/geodata/ All we need to do is have it released under OSM's licence, and then we can add the boundaries to OSM. - David E. Nelson___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released
Hi David: May I ask why you think it's a good idea to add these to the OSM database? I'm rather skeptical of imports of features that we have no way of verifying on the ground (or otherwise). Yes, there are exceptions to this rule, like municipal boundaries, but still. It's great that Environment Canada is releasing this data but I'm not sure if there's much value in adding it to OSM. Cheers, Harald. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:09 PM, David E. Nelson denelso...@yahoo.ca wrote: http://dd.weatheroffice.gc.ca/meteocode/geodata/ All we need to do is have it released under OSM's licence, and then we can add the boundaries to OSM. - David E. Nelson ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! Key-ID: 0x34cb93972f186565 ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released
I agree with Harald. The place for such data might be better placed in a thematic map were this layer of information is added over the OSM layer. Pierre De : Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com À : David E. Nelson denelso...@yahoo.ca Cc : talk-ca@openstreetmap.org talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 25 janvier 2013 13h30 Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released Hi David: May I ask why you think it's a good idea to add these to the OSM database? I'm rather skeptical of imports of features that we have no way of verifying on the ground (or otherwise). Yes, there are exceptions to this rule, like municipal boundaries, but still. It's great that Environment Canada is releasing this data but I'm not sure if there's much value in adding it to OSM. Cheers, Harald. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:09 PM, David E. Nelson denelso...@yahoo.ca wrote: http://dd.weatheroffice.gc.ca/meteocode/geodata/ All we need to do is have it released under OSM's licence, and then we can add the boundaries to OSM. - David E. Nelson ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! Key-ID: 0x34cb93972f186565 ___ 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] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: The place for such data might be better placed in a thematic map were this layer of information is added over the OSM layer. Would that thematic data be stored in another database owned by the user, or a community database? I have a interest in having access to data such as this along with other similar virtual boundaries. It would make sense to have a common repository of such information rather than recreating it over and over again. Is there such a facility available currently? -- James VE6SRV ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released
I also agree with Harald. The Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries are useful but not as part of the OSM database. If you want to see the forecast regions on an OSM map then create a mash-up that pulls the forecast region boundaries and the forecasts from Environment Canada and display them over top of an OSM map. Bernie. -- Bernie Connors, P.Eng Land Information Infrastructure Unit, SNB bernie.conn...@snb.camailto:bernie.conn...@snb.ca From: Pierre Béland [mailto:pierz...@yahoo.fr] Sent: Friday, 2013-01-25 14:46 To: Harald Kliems; David E. Nelson Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released I agree with Harald. The place for such data might be better placed in a thematic map were this layer of information is added over the OSM layer. Pierre De : Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.commailto:kli...@gmail.com À : David E. Nelson denelso...@yahoo.camailto:denelso...@yahoo.ca Cc : talk-ca@openstreetmap.orgmailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org talk-ca@openstreetmap.orgmailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 25 janvier 2013 13h30 Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released Hi David: May I ask why you think it's a good idea to add these to the OSM database? I'm rather skeptical of imports of features that we have no way of verifying on the ground (or otherwise). Yes, there are exceptions to this rule, like municipal boundaries, but still. It's great that Environment Canada is releasing this data but I'm not sure if there's much value in adding it to OSM. Cheers, Harald. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:09 PM, David E. Nelson denelso...@yahoo.camailto:denelso...@yahoo.ca wrote: http://dd.weatheroffice.gc.ca/meteocode/geodata/ All we need to do is have it released under OSM's licence, and then we can add the boundaries to OSM. - David E. Nelson ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.orgmailto:Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! Key-ID: 0x34cb93972f186565 ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.orgmailto: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] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released
It is simple to do for a user database. From JOSM, you can simply save an OSM file. It is also possible to convert to a shp file or other formats. It is then easy to define a page using services such as Mapbox or or API's such as Openlayers or LeafLet. For community database, there may be many solutions more or less complex to store, manage and read the data. I am not an expert at these, but I have once developed one simple solution that works for managing collectively a list of POI's. Data was stored in a Google Doc Spreadsheet and converted to be read by map API's. Pierre De : James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com À : talk-ca@openstreetmap.org talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 25 janvier 2013 14h06 Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: The place for such data might be better placed in a thematic map were this layer of information is added over the OSM layer. Would that thematic data be stored in another database owned by the user, or a community database? I have a interest in having access to data such as this along with other similar virtual boundaries. It would make sense to have a common repository of such information rather than recreating it over and over again. Is there such a facility available currently? -- James VE6SRV ___ 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
