[Talk-gb-london] Millennium Bridge temp closure

Hi The Millennium Bridge will be closed from Saturday 14 October 2023 until Sunday 5 November 2023, is there a way of adding a temporary block on OSM to prevent planning tools that use OSM for routing users this way? Thanks Matthew Matthew Scanlon Service Analyst (Journey Planner) Technology

Re: [talk-au] Cycle permissions by a user

to remove previously established cycling permissions from OSM. Regards Matthew On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 6:08 PM wrote: > Hi Sebastian Azagra, > > Thank you for joining in the discussions. Michael Collinson wrote "I > continue to welcome him (Sebastian) in our OSM community". I

[Talk-gb-london] Pavement (Sidewalks)

Hi all, I’m reasonably new to editing OSM so please forgive any massive misunderstandings/blunders I am making. That being said my question is: what pavement (sidewalk) mapping style should be used around the Berkshire (Reading) area? I understand there are some conflicting ideas between how it

Re: [talk-au] Mapping shared driveways

that is the intent. Thoughts? Matthew On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 9:42 AM Dian Ågesson wrote: > Interesting discussion; it does seem like the consensus is landing on the > side of service=pipestem. > > There are 668 instances of driveway=pipestem in Australia: > https://overpass-

Re: [talk-au] Cycling on Victorian paths

entered changeset comments earlier on Hallam Road way 31659577 below after a tag change yesterday. I have not put all of these against the remainder of his changesets. Regards Matthew Hallam Road from Pound Rd to Ormond Rd https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/736809442/history https

Re: [talk-au] Cycling on Victorian paths

regulation that extends the Victorian footpath cycling restrictions to other paths away from areas adjacent to roads. Regards Matthew From: Sebastian Azagra via Talk-au Sent: Sunday, 3 October 2021 9:18 AM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: [talk-au] Cycling on Victorian paths Hi

[talk-au] Friend requests from 'Porn Bots'

Having some weird friend requests coming through after submitting changesets to OSM, one I account was deleted however the second account still exists and has a hyperlink in their bio linking to what seems to be some dodgy porn site with the link using openstreetmap.org as a referee in the URL.

Re: [talk-au] Sidewalks in Australia

I've been mapping quite a bit of 'sidewalks' around Melbourne lately and I'd agree with the notion that sidewalks are supposed to be added separately because of how many oddities there are in the greater 'network' of sidewalks around Melbourne however I firmly believe that a pedestrian can make an

Re: [Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

On 28/09/2020 12.27, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:07 AM Matthew Woehlke wrote: On 28/09/2020 11.42, Jack Burke wrote: I'm willing to bet that most OSM editors who drive on either of those two will think "this is a great freeway, just with occasional traffic signals.&quo

Re: [Talk-us] Recent Trunk road edits

, are ever *not* freeways?) (¹ In case of active construction or accidents, all bets are off.) -- Matthew ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

ing *limited* rights to another party while retaining ownership). As far as I know (and can tell from https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Contributor_Terms), contribution to OSM are *not* subject to copyright assignment. -- Matthew ___ legal-tal

Re: [Talk-us] place=neighborhood on subdivisions?

y, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle, etc.), but that's not the definition that OSM uses. As I understand the wiki, the Seattle usage is correct. -- Matthew ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

ing much less useful. -- Matthew ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

d something like "my understanding is that this is contrary to the community consensus". It's always possible that what appears *to me* to be the community consensus looks different to others. -- Matthew ___ Talk-us mailing list T

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

On 31/08/2020 10.54, Greg Troxel wrote: Matthew Woehlke writes: *You* may see it this way. The rest of the community does not. A declaration that every other member of the community disagrees is unreasonable. I'm not sure if this is directed at me or at Mike. If at me, I'll point out

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

On 31/08/2020 10.18, Mike Thompson wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 7:46 AM Matthew Woehlke wrote: The objection is that access=private currently *has* an understood meaning, and that meaning is *no* access without permission, not what you described above. Sounds like my driveway. If you

Re: [Talk-us] Potential Mechanical Edit to remove access=private from Amazon Logistics driveways in NH

sion, not what you described above. I don't think it's reasonable to change that definition, as it would invalidate huge amounts of the map. If access=destination is not acceptable, perhaps we need a new category. -- Matthew ___ Ta

[OSM-talk] Mapping feature ideas (was: Funding of three infrastructure projects)

On 04/08/2020 11.08, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: On 4. Aug 2020, at 16:26, Matthew Woehlke wrote Obviously, this would all almost surely be a temporary mode (maybe it persists as long as JOSM is open, but isn't uploaded), but since you usually draw once, that would be fine. (Bonus points if JOSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

On 04/08/2020 08.10, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: On 4. Aug 2020, at 13:58, Matthew Woehlke wrote: but I would practically *kill* for JOSM to have FreeCAD's suite of sketch constraints ;-). you’re aware that there are sketch constraints for configurable angles (90, 60, 45 etc) and projection

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

. I want your JVM :-). I have yet to encounter a Java program (including JOSM) that isn't sluggish. (JOSM could be worse, but it's nowhere near what I'd expect from a well-written *native* application.) Matthew Woehlke skrev: (3 augusti 2020 16:14:13 CEST) (¹ iD can 'square up' individual

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

t generally speaking if you try to square a shape with a single 'wild' node, JOSM turns the whole thing into a hot mess.) -- Matthew ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-legal-talk] Disclaimer regarding data in Virginia (US)?

should it be displayed? (Note: I came across this while considering PWC GIS data for import; n.b. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Prince_William_County.) -- Matthew ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-us] Labeling forestry service roads/tracks

lity, but even connectivity can be dodgy. (As you noted, it's not unusual to be missing entire roads, or to have roads that don't really exist, and that's *before* we start worrying about changes that have happened since.) -- Matthew ___ Talk-us mail

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] private or not, USA ?

answer is off topic. ...and in addition, yes, they are private. Such AP's are usually for customers only; said establishments will likely be very annoyed if you go around publishing their passwords. It may even be illegal to do so. **DO NOT** add such information to OSM. -- Matthew

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Interested in importing address points in New York State

. However, I would love if everyone could just search for any address and find it. As someone who recently went looking and discovered that his former residence "doesn't exist" in OSM, I for one will be most gratified to see any improvements in the area :-).

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] local copyright law on government data and OSM license

been editing a bunch of stuff in PWC, Virginia, USA based partly on government data which I have been assured by the issuing agency is Public Domain. I *hope* you aren't talking about me, but it's really unclear.) -- Matthew ___ legal-talk mai

Re: [Talk-us] Importing data for Prince William County, VA

and other features and hand-edited others). At some point, I am likely going to need to do a mass import of buildings, and that almost certainly *will* be an import. -- Matthew ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openst

Re: [Talk-us] access=private on driveways

ich they provide access. (Which isn't to say that no one ever violates this...) -- Matthew ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] access=private on driveways (was: Deleting tiger:reviewed=no/addr:street for routes)

hat aren't explicitly access-restricted? -- Matthew ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Importing data for Prince William County, VA

), I expect that to be more automated, but probably still manually reviewed. It is still required to use a separate account for manually audited changes? -- Matthew ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] Importing data for Prince William County, VA

On 13/07/2020 13.44, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us wrote: Are you sure that it is in public domain? It is according to the government POC. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports-us/2020-July/000954.html -- Matthew ___ Talk-us mailing

Re: [Talk-us] Importing data for Prince William County, VA

(Repost to talk-us also.) On 13/07/2020 10.44, Matthew Woehlke wrote: I am working on a project that wishes to tentatively use OSM data from Quantico and possibly surrounding areas. Unfortunately, OSM is somewhat lacking in this area, especially within Quantico itself. I would like to import

[Talk-GB] Bus Routes on OSM

Hi, How are Bus Routes added into OSM? I have noticed that bus routes in Basildon (my local area) are a few years out of date with some service such as the 5 and 8Ahaving been withdrawn and the route 2 being renumbered 28 Matthew Scanlon Service Analyst (Journey Planner) Technical Serivce

Re: [Talk-GB] List moderator - volunteers needed

On Sat, 2020-03-14 at 12:21 +, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Oops, I've just seen Matthew's post. > > @Matthew: I agree, this is rare. Are you happy with continuing to > support the talk-gb list on your own or will extra volunteers help? Generally there's not anything to do, this is a

Re: [Talk-GB] List moderator - volunteers needed

On Sat, 2020-03-14 at 12:16 +, Rob Nickerson wrote: > > Are we allowed to know the person's name? The wiki refers to Matthew > Newton but I wasn't sure if this was still correct. Yup, that's still my name. :) Cheers, Matthew __

[Talk-GB] Abusive posts

. Cheers, Matthew ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

Hello all, Happy to see progress here. My ongoing question is how to define that a "local" group has determined that an import can proceed.   And more specifically what is "local"? There are rural and remote parts of Canada which have in the order of zero active mappers or sense of a local

Re: [Talk-ca] Saints in street names in Ontario

Hi, It sounds fine for me. On 2019-09-10 7:54 a.m., john whelan wrote: Looks good to me and if Matthew has cast his eye over it and not spotted anything major then I think we can safely say Ottawa is happy with it. Cheerio John On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 9:57 PM Pierre Béland via Talk-ca

[Talk-ca] OSMOSE change: split on admin_level=5 boundaries in Québec

Hello, Just a note to advise that OSMOSE QA tool now has smaller areas to process in Québec rather than one area for the entire province. The tool is now using the admin_level=5 boundaries.  This follows the same change done for Ontario earlier this year. The reason to split up a province

Re: [Talk-ca] Inconsistencies in names for admin_level=5 boundaries in Québec

Merci Pierre. On 2019-09-02 12:13 p.m., Pierre Béland wrote: Bonjour Matthew, l'Office de toponomie du Québec (http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca) que nous utilisons comme référence pour les noms de lieux au Québec publie une page avec les noms de régions http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct

[Talk-ca] Inconsistencies in names for admin_level=5 boundaries in Québec

Hello, I was looking at the admin_level=5 boundaries in Québec, and I notice they appear to not be named consistently (list below). Possible issues: * m-dash vs n-dash to separate names (compare Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine vs Abitibi-Témiscamingue) * spaces between names (compare

[Talk-ca] Phone number quality checks

Hello all, OSMOSE now has validations for phone numbers in Canada. http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/errors/?country=canada_%2A=2500=3092 ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Business Improvement Area tagging

Hello all, I'm not sure if this applies to other provinces or not, so I thought I would ask here. In Ontario there is a concept of "Business Improvement Area" ("BIA" for short) that has the power to tax businesses within their zone  (see http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page1529.aspx for details).

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec imports

Andrew, Keep up the great work making OSM great for Canada. On 2018-11-27 1:36 p.m., Andrew Lester wrote: 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,

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

Of course. Could use the ottawa import approach:  "leave existing buildings alone". Matthew Darwin matt...@mdarwin.ca http://www.mdarwin.ca On 2018-11-02 7:03 p.m., OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: On Nov 2, 2018, at 3:58 PM, John Whelan wrote: So to paraphrase your reply. A centrali

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

I think we should identify who would like to be involved in import for each municipality.  (on a wiki page). On the page, identify roles, like: * coordinator * import data preparation * QA * import execution * data enrichment (commercial, residential, etc... tagging) * etc.. Then we

[Talk-ca] Fwd: BC2020i - update Sept 2018

Forwarded Message Subject:BC2020i - update Sept 2018 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:54:41 + From: Alasia, Alessandro (STATCAN) To: many Dear all, I hope you had a good and relaxing summer. I imagine this email will find you all back in the office or at

Re: [Talk-ca] Trans-Canada Highway research

Hi Olivia, I spent some fixing tags on TCH ways in *Ontario* in the last few weeks.  Do an overpass query on nat_name=Trans-Canada Highway in Ontario (see below). Is it possible to build a query that shows ways with nat_name=Trans-Canada Highway and not part of the relation, and

[Talk-ca] Fwd: Re: Building Canada 2020 (BC2020i) - update Dec 20, 2017

Forwarded message... Subject:Re: Building Canada 2020 (BC2020i) - update Dec 20, 2017 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:21:22 -0500 From: keith hartley Hi building 20/20 list Last Friday I worked with one of my colleagues and a high school

Re: [Talk-ca] Trans-Canada Highway research

TCH), so the naming is consistent only within a province.  Please review https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Highway On 2018-03-26 09:25 AM, Matthew Darwin wrote: * Another question is related to the priority of the names in the name value tag and also for the ref tag. If we have a way t

Re: [Talk-ca] Trans-Canada Highway research

On 2018-03-26 07:20 AM, Olivia Robu - (p) wrote: Hello, The Telenav Map team has done some research on the status of the ways and relations of Trans-Canada Highway. Here are some conclusions from this research: * The highway is formed from 30 routes; The Trans-Canada highway is not

Re: [Talk-ca] Poorly drawn buildings #GEOG231-W18; #BC2020; #UCalgary-GEOG231; #BC2020-UCalgary

, Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca <mailto:matt...@mdarwin.ca>> wrote: Hi all, I noticed some poorly drawn (not-square) buildings in Calgary tagged with the hashags #GEOG231-W18;#BC2020;#UCalgary-GEOG231;#BC2020-UCalgary. If you are involved in this project, yo

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup of addr:country, addr:province, addr:state

Québec en Outaouais so hopefully you'll consider me part of the local community in Quebec, even though I live in Ontario.  :-) On 2018-03-10 03:27 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: Pour revenir aux suggestions de Matthew, de façon à impliquer / motiver les communautés locales, ce serait d'offrir les

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup of addr:country, addr:province, addr:state

Searching on "110 Laurier Avenue West, on" in Nominatim already works (it finds Ottawa City hall) even though the address has no addr:province tag for City Halle.  So I don't think this is a good reason to be adding addr:province/addr:province:short_name tags. IMO.  Unless there is another use

[Talk-ca] Poorly drawn buildings #GEOG231-W18; #BC2020; #UCalgary-GEOG231; #BC2020-UCalgary

Hi all, I noticed some poorly drawn (not-square) buildings in Calgary tagged with the hashags #GEOG231-W18;#BC2020;#UCalgary-GEOG231;#BC2020-UCalgary.  If you are involved in this project, you might want to review the quality. I added a "fixme" tag to the problems I happen to notice.

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup of addr:country, addr:province, addr:state

So I've tidied up the addr:province/state tags, now using only addr:province, leaving anything that would be generally considered "correct" either spelt out in full or using English provincial abbreviation as you might use in a mailing address. Also left "Quebec" (no accent). I would rather

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Footprint Upload to OSM

Rob, One other thing to think about while others are discussing the licensing topic:  What is the quality of the buildings?  Has that been reviewed? * Are they in the right place? * Are they the right size? * Are they squared off (rectangles) * Are they aligned to each other and the road

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

of the educational and local planning structures and processes at the municipal and regional level. Alessandro and his colleagues at the TB Open Data branch are well aware of what we are trying to do. Jonathan *From: *Matthew Darwin <mailto:matt...@mdarwin.ca> *Sent: *Tuesday, March 6, 2018 9

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

Hi Jonathan, Are you trying to set up the tasking manager, or you just want to add a project to the existing tasking manager http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/?  If you describe the details of what you're trying to accomplish (look at existing tasks), then someone can probably add a task for you.

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names in Ontario

rt     112 Village Of Hilton Beach and I think that's it for Ontario. On 2018-02-23 11:50 AM, Matthew Darwin wrote: I will leave the wonky towns (the ones that have parentheses) for cleanup later.  The other "Town Of" are d

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names in Ontario

I will leave the wonky towns (the ones that have parentheses) for cleanup later.  The other "Town Of" are done. I am working on "Municipality Of" now. On 2018-02-18 11:04 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote: Hi Bill, Thanks for the feedback.  OSM is updated accordingly. I also cha

Re: [Talk-ca] Expanding vs abbreviating

. /Suggestion:/ Name these streets/avenues with the full name (such as 51st Street Northeast) and let the renderer sort out the abbreviation where required. Where the numbering system ends below 30, consider spelling out the numbers. Matthew Darwin matt...@mdarwin.ca http://www.mdarwin.ca On 2018

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

ned as expanded in OSM. If it is not normally expanded, then it is not expanded in OSM. "Saint John" (NB) and "St. John's" (NL) are both correct. Feel free to clarify further on the wiki or continue the discussion here... Matthew Darwin matt...@mdarwin.ca http://www.

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup of addr:country, addr:province, addr:state

11:25 AM, john whelan wrote: So what we are saying is the city field should be filled in not with the physical city but with Canada Posts thoughts of the day? Orleans is different.  It never was a municipality. Cheerio John On 19 February 2018 at 11:17, Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names in Ontario

t basis I'd say yes, Maple is definitely a suburb of Vaughan, as are 1/2 of Thornhill, Concord, Woodbridge, and Kleinburg.  Purpleville and Nashville should likely be classified as neighbourhoods, and Hope and Burrlington (note double "r") as pioneer communities. 16796 Town

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

In my OSM map updates to remove of "City of" and similar prefixes from locality names, I will not be expanding any "St", "Ste" or any other abbreviations of those names.  If the name (minus the prefix to be removed) matches what is in NRCan database, I will remove the prefix; if it doesn't, I

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

To start the cleanup process, the following *Ontario* cities are being changed (remove "City of" or "City Of").   Once that is done, I'll come back with the next batch to process... The idea to remove the city name in its entirety will require careful consideration to ensure the necessary

[Talk-ca] Cleanup of addr:country, addr:province, addr:state

be a more reasonable at this time.  (addr:country is used ~94% less than addr:street) Tags, by number of occurrences:  167902 addr:country   33252 addr:state  179741 addr:province 2950115 addr:city 2942159 addr:street 2934341 addr:housenumber -- Matthew Darwin matt...@mdarwin.ca http

Re: [Talk-ca] Postal Code cleanup

uch bigger now... I was querying the postal codes where also there is a contact record) On 2018-02-07 08:01 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote: Hi all, Below are the 10 top postal code formats in Canada as seen in *addr:postcode*. When I get bored of tidying up phone numbers, I'll t

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

ugh  1 Pierrefonds-Roxboro  1 North York  1 Le-Sud-Ouest  1 Gastown  1 Etobicoke  1 Downtown Dartmouth  1 Delta  1 Beauport  1 Beaconsfield  1 Alton On 2018-02-12 06:02 PM, Kevin Farrugia wrote: Hi Matthew, Not having the "City of" or "To

Re: [Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

On 2018-02-12 06:05 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: On Feb 12, 2018 17:51, "Matthew Darwin" <matt...@mdarwin.ca <mailto:matt...@mdarwin.ca>> wrote: Hi, I am now reviewing the *addr**:city* tag. Seems we are not very consistent how we use it. For example, Toro

[Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names

ton 9666 City of Brantford 9603 Toronto 9487 Shawinigan 9384 City of Sarnia 9380 Red Deer 9102 City of Windsor 9044 City Of Sault Ste. Marie 8466 Sudbury -- Matthew Darwin matt...@mdarwin.ca http://www.mdarwin.ca ___ Talk-ca mail

Re: [Talk-ca] Preferred phone number format

###     110 phone"###- 40 phone"+#-###-###-####;+#-###-###- On 2018-02-07 06:46 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote: A further update on this work: * I found more yet bizarre phone-related tags "phone:1", "telephone" and the like.  These have all been tidied.  My osmfilte

[Talk-ca] Postal Code cleanup

Hi all, Below are the 10 top postal code formats in Canada as seen in *addr:postcode*. When I get bored of tidying up phone numbers, I'll tackle some postal codes. I hope we can all agree that "A#A #A#", which is the most popular, is the correct format that should be used.  The ones that

Re: [Talk-ca] Preferred phone number format

#-###-###-;+#-###-###- 25 phone"+#-###-###- 23 phone"+#-###-###-x### 17 phone"+# (###) ###-####      14 phone"+#-###-###-x   9 phone"+#-###-###-x# On 2018-02-04 11:49 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: On Feb 4, 2018, at 8:37

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i - Solving the licensing issues

Hi John, I think this approach has merit. Probably it would work if we take a similar approach to what BikeOttawa is doing with OSM data, they wanted a "Level Of Traffic Stress" map.  To that they defined the set of interesting tags, started collecting data, then draw a map.  Now people are

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i - Solving the licensing issues

James, Good point about the quality and attributes of the data will definitely not be consistent between municipalities. As long as the source is identifiable, then the face it is one "file" or many, would be an implementation detail.  IMO. On 2018-02-07 09:46 AM, James wrote: why does it

Re: [Talk-ca] Preferred phone number format

l use ";" as multiple number separator. * I will use "x" for extension. * And I will be happy to cleanup the wonky ones with lots of text in them if there is a direction of where this should move to.  Example for a radio station: "office (###) ###-; on-air studio

Re: [Talk-ca] using image recognition to create building foot prints.

Ok, just I had to re-write more than just that one section to make it coherent.   Hopefully the page has a bit more logical structure now. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020 Comments and edits welcome! On 2018-01-29 09:26 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote: I

Re: [Talk-ca] using image recognition to create building foot prints.

the pilot and the resources we had available but even there I wasn't certain we would be able to pull it off. Cheerio John 2018-01-29 21:11 GMT-05:00 Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca <mailto:matt...@mdarwin.ca>>: +1 Unless someone has lots of $$$ to throw at OSM work (whi

Re: [Talk-ca] using image recognition to create building foot prints.

+1 Unless someone has lots of $$$ to throw at OSM work (which could then fund full time coordinators, trainers, lawyers, etc), the only way I see to coordinate is to approach it like how OSM in Canada was build up to now... distributed model with local groups doing what makes sense for their

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 project

I think we can politely re-factor out much stuff.  :-)   Now that we seem to have more folks looking into things, I am a bit more motivated to spend time on it. Tech writer type folks would be great to have. Matthew Darwin matt...@mdarwin.ca http://www.mdarwin.ca On 2018-01-28 09:21 PM

Re: [Talk-ca] Preferred phone number format

Just FYI, I am not doing an automated edit.  One at a time in JOSM. On 2018-01-28 10:23 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: On 2018-01-28 08:22 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote: I am wondering if I should have them in the format of "+1 999 555 1234" or "+1-999-555-1234".    If

[Talk-ca] Fwd: Re: Building Canada 2020 (BC2020i) - update Dec 20, 2017

a community profile that is accessible and engaging for community partners. Jonathan *From: *Mikel Maron <mailto:mi...@mapbox.com> *Sent: *Friday, January 26, 2018 10:37 AM *To: *Matthew Darwin <mailto:matt...@mdarwin.ca> *Cc: *Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <mailt

[Talk-ca] Preferred phone number format

Hi all, Is there a preferred phone number format we use in Canada? I noticed a bunch of phone numbers in Ottawa don't follow the recommendations in https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:phone, namely: * phone=/number/ where the /number/ should be in international (ITU-T E.164

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 project

Inline On 2018-01-28 07:38 PM, john whelan wrote: We have lots of people talking about this. Yay! We have a wiki page somewhere that covers some ground.  Could someone remind me of the address? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020 needs lots of

Re: [Talk-ca] Indigenous communities - Building Canada 2020 (BC2020i) - update Dec 20, 2017

Forward from a very long distribution list: Hi J, So you are not aware of any Indigenous communities engaged with OSM anywhere in Canada? It would be great if OSM could be introduced to Indigenous community members so they can help define a direction. Since you have contacts, can you help

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 OD_tables wiki and project status

Great, seems like we have a list of 3 ok ones: Ottawa (approved license) Gatineau + Montreal (explicit approval provided) @James, do we have documentation as to where approval was given? Would be good to have this info on the wiki. Matthew Darwin matt...@mdarwin.ca http://www.mdarwin.ca

Re: [Talk-ca] building imports (was Re: Talk-ca Digest, Vol 119, Issue 10)

Hi Steve, I'm all for using the wiki, just want to consider the maintenance effort of keeping the tasking manager in sync with the wiki.  If someone wants to do that, so much the better!   Wikis can get stale quickly without someone(s) to actively look at doing updates, like you're doing.

Re: [Talk-ca] building imports (was Re: Talk-ca Digest, Vol 119, Issue 10)

!) On 2018-01-25 11:39 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: On Jan 25, 2018, at 8:30 PM, Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca> wrote: I should mention that there are others in Ottawa working on completing the buildings. The City import only had urban buildings. Since the city of Ottawa is the largest

Re: [Talk-ca] building imports (was Re: Talk-ca Digest, Vol 119, Issue 10)

/project/100 On 2018-01-25 11:13 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote: Hi Steve, I'm not who the "movers and shakers" are really.   There is nobody really *driving* this project that I am aware of (the wiki suggests we should have a steering committee).   Every time I see email sent to th

Re: [Talk-ca] building imports (was Re: Talk-ca Digest, Vol 119, Issue 10)

veral days/week working on improving OSM in the City of Ottawa.  (http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Matthew%20Darwin). My focus is roads geometry (mostly done... remaining work is pending getting info from the City of Ottawa... waiting 6 months with no answers) then addresses (in progress) then we'll

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

Hi John, After talking to many different folks about what their requirements are for a cycling map, it is clear to me that the cycling routing algorithm requires user-configurable tuning parameters.   People have different requirements at different times: from "find a nice path for a 6 year

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

that are not cyclable at this time of year. Matthew Darwin matt...@mdarwin.ca http://www.mdarwin.ca On 2018-01-23 03:25 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: Oops, the bicycle router I wanted to refer to in my previous is http://cycle.travel by Richard Fairhurst (whom I inexplicably confused with Simon Poole

Re: [Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

couldn't collaborate better across the country on cycling activities.   Is there a national organization focused on cycling? Matthew Darwin matt...@mdarwin.ca http://www.mdarwin.ca On 2017-12-23 09:30 AM, john whelan wrote: I think the OSM article uses a variety of inputs. https://urbandatacyclis

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa street names

éans Drive Place-d’Orléans Drive promenade de la Place-d’Orléans Matthew Darwin matt...@mdarwin.ca http://www.mdarwin.ca On 2017-12-04 06:57 AM, James wrote: DES EPINETTES AVE is english. Des Epinettes Avenue. French is avenue Des Epinettes. Dont look hard for an Explaination why

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa street names

ard Orléans Boulevard boulevard d’Orléans promenade de la Place-d’Orléans Drive Place-d’Orléans Drive promenade de la Place-d’Orléans Matthew Darwin matt...@mdarwin.ca http://www.mdarwin.ca On 2017-12-04 06:57 AM, James wrote: DES EPINETTES AVE is english

Re: [Talk-ca] Disconnected addresses

you updated. In the mean time, if you have any ideas for how to approach this, let me know. Thanks! Martijn On Oct 11, 2017, at 12:05 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org <mailto:m...@rtijn.org>> wrote: Hi all, Matthew Darwin pointed out on Github that some street

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Canada 2020 OSMGeoWeek Mapathons

Hi all, my 2c: If we want to have a bunch of new to OSM people map things, I would suggest that these is a *physical location* with *experts presen**t*.   As we see with the Carleton University example (not uOttawa), it's hard to get new folks on board... i would guess  that although there

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping of bilingual destination signs

Thanks J.P. If at some point there is a more clear boundary maybe someone could update the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/New_Brunswick to give the rest of us more clear guidance. On 2017-10-03 12:16 AM, J.P. Kirby wrote: On 2017-10-03, at 12:33 AM, Matthew Darwin <m

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