[Talk-ca] Useful WMS URL

2009-11-24 Thread Austin Henry
I thought I'd share A little tidbit that I've been finding useful lately while editing. It's a WMS url for Toporama (aka geogratis data). It is really nice for use in JOSM while tracing GPS tracks.

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto aerial imagery

2009-11-09 Thread Austin Henry
- Andrew MacKinnon arranged a host of electrons thusly: - The recently released City of Toronto aerial imagery is on the following WMS server: [snip] Trouble is, it uses a projection called NAD27 (found that with a bit of googling) and it shows up a few metres off in JOSM. Any way to fix

Re: [Talk-ca] How to check why an area is not being rendered

2009-10-27 Thread Austin Henry
(sorry to reply to such an old message, but the info might be useful, so...) - James A. Treacy arranged a host of electrons thusly: - Is there a way to find out why an area is not being rendered? Not that I know of, but there's a way (tile by tile, unfortunately) to ask it to rerender. I did

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Questions

2009-09-29 Thread Austin Henry
- Sam Vekemans arranged a host of electrons thusly: - [snip] I didn't include the accuracy_meters=* tag, but i could. I didn't feel it necessary, since it's just a rectangle. And when you go an map more detail (add in where the school parking lot is) and where the playground/sports areas

Re: [Talk-ca] Fixing GeoBase unconnected ways/nodes.

2009-07-22 Thread Austin Henry
- Simon Wood arranged a host of electrons thusly: - Hi all, There are a lot of unconnected ways, created when GeoBase road matcher found a match with existing data and did not connect new nodes. With the work I have been doing with distance maps, I have inadvertantly found a way to speed up

Re: [Talk-ca] Fixing GeoBase unconnected ways/nodes.

2009-07-22 Thread Austin Henry
- Sam Vekemans arranged a host of electrons thusly: - Cool, For the Saanich area (092b11), i've been dropping them in. But i probably should be going in there and connecting the way to exising data. Yes, please :) It's much much easier to do when you're pasting the roads in JOSM, versus

Re: [Talk-ca] cleaning up after the GeoBase import

2009-06-13 Thread Austin Henry
- William Lachance arranged a host of electrons thusly: - Having the uuids around also make it easier to talk about differences/errors between OSM and geobase data. Someone can look at a road in OSM and easily find the original GeoBase road (using your favourite gis tool) and compare

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase data vs. OSM data on import

2009-06-12 Thread Austin Henry
- Austin Henry arranged a host of electrons thusly: - It means I've got more work to do, but there should be less effort after-the-fact, so I don't mind re-running the exports roadmatcher bits. I might have the data in by the end of the week, given work life all that jazz. Well, bombs

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: 092 canvec import-and poi mapping party - Vancouver - Nanaimo - Victoria

2009-06-11 Thread Austin Henry
- si...@mungewell.org arranged a host of electrons thusly: - Funny that... I shall be in Courtenay visiting friends from Sun (21st June) till Wed (24th June). I notice that there's nothing done for Courtney and the aerial photography is non existant. Is it worth asking if it possible

[Talk-ca] Geobase data vs. OSM data on import

2009-06-07 Thread Austin Henry
Hi all, I'm working on importing (most of) the 082E tile, and the part of the import process where you match roads in RoadMatcher is taking ages, even though there's very little data in OSM for the area (the reason I picked this tile, along with the fact that I used to live in the area). The

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase data vs. OSM data on import

2009-06-07 Thread Austin Henry
- Richard Weait arranged a host of electrons thusly: - On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 00:09 -0700, Austin Henry wrote: Hi all, I'm working on importing (most of) the 082E tile, Kelowna, Osoyoos, Grand Forks That's the one. Penticton was my original goal, because my Dad would like to get

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase data vs. OSM data on import

2009-06-07 Thread Austin Henry
- Michel Gilbert arranged a host of electrons thusly: - Hi Austin, With the experience I have doing import and road capture with my GPS I came to the conclusion that if the data is bad I would delete it. If I were the initial author of that road I you delete it with a complete set of new

Re: [Talk-ca] 092g07 imported and uploaded

2009-06-01 Thread Austin Henry
- Michael Barabanov arranged a host of electrons thusly: - [snip] I've also captured my notes at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/More_details_on_GeoBase_import_processand fixed minor details in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase_NRN_-_OSM_Map_Feature. If people think the

Re: [Talk-ca] 092g07 imported and uploaded

2009-06-01 Thread Austin Henry
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 14:36 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: (Argh! For some reason i don't get the talk-ca mailing list messages as they happen, only when the build list arrives with 10 or so messages, anyone know how to fix that) Sam, this is usually called digest mode. You should be able to