-Original Message-
From: Stewart C. Russell [mailto:scr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 4:22 PM
To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] Wind farm access roads that really shouldn't be in
OSM
I've notice a few ways in OSM like this one:
-Original Message-
From: Stewart C. Russell [mailto:scr...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Wind farm access roads that really shouldn't be
in OSM
On 12-03-19 19:45 , Paul Norman wrote:
I'd just retag as highway=service, but it definitely belongs in the DB
if there's a road
I have finished my translation file for the Township of Langley roads data.
The resulting output is available at
http://maps.paulnorman.ca/langley/Roads-201204.zip
Included are the shapefiles, ogr2osm translation file, and .osm output file.
This file is not to be blindly imported, but used as
There are a significant number of cities in BC and Washington which have
borders that in practice[1] coincide with the Canada/US border. Currently in
OSM these are represented with many nearly-overlapping ways.
The Canada/US border here consists of the BC-WA border, BC-ID border, BC-MT
border,
Since no one has objected (or commented) I'll go ahead with this if I can
get it in before the rebuild starts.
-Original Message-
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 12:04 AM
To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Proposed
From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com]
Subject: [Talk-ca] upcoming Canadian press coverage and your local group
Dear all,
I expect that OSM will be getting some press coverage in the Canadian
media in the near future. This is a wonderful opportunity to launch
your
From: Andrew Allison [mailto:andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 6:55 PM
To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] coastline or water polygon
Hello:
I'm removing red dots on the north coast of Nova Scotia at the
moment with canvec data. The canvec data
From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com]
Subject: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?
Dear All,
Let's talk about it again. How do we feel about the bulk copying of
information from a permitted source into OpenStreetMap in Canada?
To be clear, I'm not suggesting that we
From: Ian Bruseker [mailto:ian.bruse...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 9:31 PM
To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?
On 2012-04-15, at 6:37 PM, Steve Singer st...@ssinger.info wrote:
I also feel that not of all data sources are
Websites normally use TMS for backgrounds, not WMS. WMS is generally a lot
slower than TMS. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WMS might help with
finding a WMS server for OSM data. To make your own WMS server you could
either use a program that turns tiles to WMS or renders directly to WMS.
2. There is not a consensus among the community that CanVec data can be
imported without verifying the data for internal consistency and where
possible against imagery.
If no one disagrees with the fact there is not a consensus that importing
CanVec without minimal verification is acceptable
From: Bégin, Daniel [mailto:daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca]
Subject: RE: [Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?
Steve, Paul,
I was on the impression that the consensus was more about using Canvec
where it is the best available source and, when it is not, the data
could be imported, but
Whoops - forgot to include talk-ca@ in this
-Original Message-
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 1:50 PM
To: 'Toby Murray'; talk...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] City boundaries on the Canada/US border
I started working my way across
-Original Message-
From: webmas...@the506.com [mailto:webmas...@the506.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:51 AM
To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] Proposed import: Service New Brunswick address data
Hello...long time reader, first time poster. You may know me as
-Original Message-
From: Fabian Rodriguez [mailto:magic...@member.fsf.org]
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 4:16 AM
To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Tr : [OSGeo-qc] Données ouvertes : gouvernement
du Québec...
On 06/30/2012 03:51 AM, Frank Steggink wrote:
From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com]
Subject: [Talk-ca] redaction bot cbbboming soon!
Dear All,
The redaction bot is now in North America. You can watch the progress
here:
http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/license-change/botprocessing.php
Each area starts from the
The logs (linked from that square) say which way it was. It looks like the
maritime boundary was large enough that two instances of the bot tried to
delete it at the same time
From: Bruno Remy [mailto:bremy.qc...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:43 PM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: Talk-CA
From: David E. Nelson [mailto:denelso...@yahoo.ca]
Subject: [Talk-ca] CanVec imports allowed again?
Now that the redaction bot has apparently finished its sweep of Canada,
is it safe for CanVec imports to be resumed? I want to try my hand at
importing a few tiles around where I live.
The
This is based on
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-July/008830.html, a
recent talk-us@ discussion about TIGER tags. Parts of this message are a
copy/paste from there.
Some people may not even be aware of this but JOSM silently discards the
created_by tag if it exists on any
From: Adam Dunn [mailto:dunna...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 5:57 PM
To: Steve Singer
Cc: Paul Norman; Toby Murray; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Disgardable NHN and NRN tags
I'd keep the accuracy:meters around. I've used that for other things
(mainly
From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.mur...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 6:40 PM
To: talk-us
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Discardable TIGER tags
I was unaware of the TLID bug and the fact that TIGER has changed their
data model although I kind of wondered about this because I didn't see a
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Disgardable NHN and NRN tags
I think the ways tagged with sub_sea would need to be deleted, not
just the tag itself. These tend to be hydrological topology connectors
under lakes
After some technical and legal work, I now have a number of imagery layers
hosted on a rented server.
These layers cover from Vancouver to Hope in 20cm or better and Lions Bay to
Pemberton as 40cm or better. 10cm imagery is available for Vancouver,
Richmond, Ladner, West Delta, the North Shore,
You're supposed to copy and paste the URL from the table or click on the
link, not copy the link. I'll see if I can clarify that in the
documentation.
From: Matthew Buchanan [mailto:matthew.ian.bucha...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:01 PM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: talk-ca
I see the problem as being the importing of everything as being the problem,
not the geometric model :)
From: Daniel Begin [mailto:jfd...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:49 PM
To: 'Pierre Béland'; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues
Bonjour
I've gone and updated the imagery bounds and bboxes for both Potlatch 2 and
JOSM for the North American imagery sources. JOSM should now only suggest a
source if it actually covers the area.
Potlatch 2 will still suggest sources even if they don't cover the area
because potlatch 2 only supports
The surrey2012 should have some more from the south side.
I'm thinking about going and driving back and forth a few times with my GPS
and my camera set to auto so that I can get all of the exits.
Anyone interested in a driving mapping party?
Of course I'd get to redo it all in a couple
I'm getting it from the City of Surrey.
If you get imagery under a compatible license I could look at hosting it.
City GIS departments generally have imagery but they may be reluctant or
unable to release it. Surrey releases their data and imagery under the PDDL
From: Maury Markowitz [mailto:maury.markow...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 1:28 PM
To: impo...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Imports] Importing CanVec better?
Newb here, so I hope this is the right place to ask. I also posted on
one of the wiki talk pages, but I didn't know if
From: Harald Kliems [mailto:kli...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 11:04 AM
To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
Subject: [Talk-ca] Canvec 10 and landcover issues
Hi everyone,
I've done some OSMInspector debugging of areas around Montreal and I've
come across a number of newly imported
Just a reminder, if youre proposing to import the admin boundaries, you
need to follow the steps in
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines, which includes not
just talk-ca@ but the imports@ mailing list.
My recollection is that boundaries for statscan purposes sometimes differ
From: James Ewen [mailto:ve6...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 5:22 PM
To: talk-ca
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Suivi OSM / OSM Monitoring
I see that Canada is pretty good at the admin2 (Country) level, and the
admin4 level (Regions) except for a few islands in the Hudson and James
From: James Ewen [mailto:ve6...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 9:22 PM
To: talk-ca
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Suivi OSM / OSM Monitoring
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
I don't know how it works in the rest of the country, but in Alberta,
once
I was importing some CanVec in northern BC and came across a resource road
on bing, which I also added, but I realized I wasn't positive on the best
tagging.
A typical example is
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=59.395lon=-122.074zoom=16
These roads exist for forestry and oil and gas use. In
From: Steve Roy [mailto:st...@ssni.ca]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 2:58 PM
To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] New Subdivisions
What is the best was of adding a new subdivision like this one east of
Kelowna? I've only used Potlatch.
I appear to of found a CanVec 10 bug in 094P13.0.osm
There is a waterway=riverbank way (Dilly Creek) that is split in two at
59.7728641, -121.9806992. One way is 2k nodes, the other is 457 nodes.
Ideally this would be split in two to form two separate areas. An alternate
solution would be to not
@openstreetmap.org
Cc: Paul Norman; Nicolas Gariépy
Subject: Import Canvec : micro-tâches / Canvec imports micro-tasking
Data import is essential to cover all of Canada, But it is complex to import
Canvec files in areas were data already exist. Both unexperienced and
experienced people may make errors. Import
From: Tom Taylor [mailto:tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com]
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Internal CanVec conflicts
I've just performed my first edits, in our neighbourhood. One thing I
noticed was that some of the buildings are duplicates. I assume this is
part of what you are talking about when you
From: Dan Charrois [mailto:d...@syz.com]
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Internal CanVec conflicts
Usually, in remote areas of the north that I've dealt with, there is
often little else already there than the Landsat lakes. And usually, in
a given tile, there is usually just a handful of lakes.
From: Connors, Bernie (SNB) [mailto:bernie.conn...@snb.ca]
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 7:20 PM
To: Bruno Remy; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Alaska / BC border
You can get the boundary coordinates from the IBC - International
Boundary Commission.
I also checked
Do you know when youll be proposing this import to the various lists?
From: Pierre Béland [mailto:infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 7:55 AM
To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Validating existing data in Ottawa area
Tom
For the Québec
I'm going to be in Toronto in the new year and was wondering if any OSM or
GIS events, meetings or mappy hours would be taking place. I'll be arriving
on the 2nd and leaving on the 7th for Penetang but might be free after that.
I'll mainly be spending time with the relatives, but the dates for
Ive been looking at a bot to fix the double-space issue with
CanVec/Geobase, but no idea when Ill have the time for it so dont let that
stop anyone else interested from developing one, consulting, etc. Serges
work in the US with TIGER name expansions might be helpful.
Also, just a
Resenting to the right address...
Sent from my iPad
On 2013-01-03, at 12:09 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
I'm considering going to this conference and presenting on OSM use of open
data. I figure it might be of interest to a few people as data used by us
will be used by Wikipedia
I see that there is an event in Vancouver and some people from the city will be
there. I'd like to compile a list of issues with the Vancouver license
beforehand. I know rweait had some as blog posts but I think they're offline.
Sent from my iPad
Begin forwarded message:
From: Pierre Béland
From: Andrew Allison [mailto:andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com]
Subject: [Talk-ca] GeoBase tags
Hello:
Are the Geobase attribution tags relevant, should I leave them in
or strip them out?
There's no legal reason why you can't remove the attribution=* tags (or any
tag, for that matter).
It’s good to see more municipalities opening up their data and open data
catching on. Seeing more municipalities writing their own licenses isn’t so
good.
Now, on to the more practical questions needed to use the data.
Could you provide a translation of 4.1 and 4.2 of their license? Are
With the new Montreal open data, perhaps they have aerial photography they
can release? Or perhaps they already have, but I couldn't find any. If
someone can get it, I can host it.
From: nicholas ingalls [mailto:nicholas.inga...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 11:18 AM
To: Harald
From: Harald Kliems [mailto:kli...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Licence de données ouvertes, Montréal
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
Lastly, cadastral data is probably the least exciting type of data for
OSM
Thanks for the link.
It's good to see a court decision reminding parties that (in Canada) there
is no copyright in data.
From the court decision: However, there is no principle of property law
that would preclude anyone from making use of information displayed in a
publicly available paper
From: Darryl Shpak [mailto:dar...@shpak.ca]
Subject: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca
Good morning everyone,
So: I am just about to renew this domain for another year. I would like
to pass control of the domain over to the Canadian mapping community, to
someone who will do something --
This is not correct – there are no mandatory tags, and there is no legal reason
why a source tag can’t be removed. Incidentally, source tags are perhaps the
ones most frequently removed as osm2pgsql drops them by default.
If you’re looking at doing an import
Chances are good that this is a bug with HTTPS anywhere and Firefox. If you
are using that extension with Firefox, disable the OpenStreetMap Wiki
ruleset.
See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8841 for the
corresponding HTTPS anywhere ruleset bug.
From: Stewart Russell
Individual addresses are always preferable to interpolation lines,
interpolation lines are just an approximation so if you have all the
addresses in a block you shouldn't also have interpolation lines as the
latter duplicates the former.
As for how to tag the addresses, if they're buildings
From: Stewart C. Russell [mailto:scr...@gmail.com]
Subject: [Talk-ca] Open Government Licence - Canada
[I guess Bernie's original subject of ‘G8 leaders sign open data charter
of principles’ might've made this important announcement sink without
trace.]
Bernie Connors wrote:
Is there
I don't know how this slipped under my radar, but Kelowna BC has open data,
licensed under the PDDL. I see that they have 2012 aerial photos, which I'll
work on hosting, although I might need to upgrade my server first.
What's more interesting is they have some address data. If there is a local
From: Steve Singer [mailto:st...@ssinger.info]
Cc: 'Matthew Buchanan'; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Open Government Licence
Wouldn't the multiple Information Providers kick is as soon as you
combined data from Vancouver with any other source such as the existing
OSM
I happened across http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1205150, a
relation with name=Lake Erie.
My recollection is that last time this came up we decided that as the Great
Lakes are large lakes by any reasonable standard they are best represented
as natural=coastline. Thousand-member MPs
[mailto:spero.shirope...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 4:55 PM
To: 'David E. Nelson'
Cc: 'Paul Norman'; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: RE: [Talk-ca] Aerial imagery for Nanaimo, BC
I am no legal person by any means, and Nanaimo has adopted v2 of the OGL
since I last looked at it. Paul Norman
We seem to be jumping ahead a bit quickly. We haven’t solved the legal
issues about using any of their data, so it seems premature to be worried
about the technical details.
Once the legal issues get cleared up I can easily take the Nanaimo imagery
and host an imagery layer which can be added
Interpolations are generally regarded as approximations until we can get
individual addresses mapped. The post in case was about if was more common to
map a building with an address as one way with a building tag and address tags
or as one way with a building tag and a node with address tags.
cc'ing to a few people who I have talked about this with in the past.
Some governments in Canada have released data under the Open Government
Licence - Canada, version 2.0. This is yet another new license. Some
people have asked if we can use datasets available under this license.
.
From: Steve Roy [mailto:st...@ssni.ca]
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec 10 Data
Agreed. I see that Paul Norman imported some of the City of Surrey GIS
data a couple of years ago and that included house numbers.
Cheers
Steve
On 04/11/2013 6:16 AM, Harald Kliems wrote:
I think Daniel's
-
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 8:29 PM
To: 'Licensing and other legal discussions.'
Cc: 'Levene, Mark'; 'David E. Nelson'; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Open Government License - Canada
cc'ing to a few people who I have
I've been setting up a new server and setting up new imagery and other
resources for the OSM community.
One that's basically finished is some stuff making use of the City of
Kelowna data, published under the PDDL.
I've put up a page demoing what I've done at
From: Daniel Begin [mailto:jfd...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 1:34 PM
To: 'Richard Weait'; 'Connors, Bernie (SNB)'
Cc: 'Talk-CA OpenStreetMap'
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Problem with overpasses in NB??
Provinces provide roads to NRCan that simply package it for GeoBase and
Previously[1] I looked at the OGL - Canada 2.0. The federal government
opinion is that the license is compatible with the ODbL and CC BY. The
OKFN regards the OGL - Canada 2.0 as meeting the Open Definition.
The OGL - British Columbia and OGL - Nanaimo are different licenses.
Aside from
Both landuse=forest and natural=wood may be used to indicate an area with
trees. There are differing views about what the tags mean, so it is possible
for one person to sensibly use landuse=forest to map something while a
different person would use natural=wood to map that exact same thing.
About 6 years ago, a set of data was imported from GNS, consisting of place
names, mainly of place=town.
As an example, see http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/52556192/history
Thy have a few tags, many of which can probably be safely automatically
eliminated by editor software.
Using the example
I was having a look at New Westminster in tile 092G02.1.1, and
I noticed that there are differences between CanVec 10.0 which
I downloaded when it came out and what I just downloaded from
the CanVec webpage, which is also labeled CanVec 10.0
Addresses have been added, and with them, errors
From: Daniel Friesen [mailto:dan...@nadir-seen-fire.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 3:10 AM
To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] Updating Langley and use of alt_name?
I'm a little new to OSM, recently I found that neither of the city
boundaries for the Langley area
No one has raised the issue on legal-talk@ since CC 4 was released.
From: Pierre Béland [mailto:pierz...@yahoo.fr]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 8:43 AM
To: diane.merc...@gmail.com; Talk-ca (OSM)
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Nouvelle licence de données ouvertes au Québec
Merci Diane pour
CC BY 3.0 and earlier had onerous attribution requirements for data. I believe
4.0 fixes this. I don't think anyone has suggested contacting a data provider
who's licensed under CC 4.0 licenses to clarify attribution.
The issue with 3.0 attribution are not purely theoretical, there have been
From: William Rieck [mailto:bi...@thinkers.org]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Updating Langley and use of alt_name?
Hi Paul, I was following your message until this statement, where
I got confused. Are you saying the city of Langley is not a city?
What
; Paul Norman
Cc: talk-ca
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Updating Langley and use of alt_name?
Oups I was wrong in identifiying the polygons in JOSM.
These are two adjacent polygons, the city being surrounded by the township.
The difference in spelling comes from the alt_name=Langley.
I should have
From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com
Date: Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] workflow for elevation data
To: Charles Basenga Kiyanda perso...@charleskiyanda.com
There was a service, run by long time OpenStreetMap user lambertus,
that displayed an elevation profile graph
From: perso...@charleskiyanda.com [mailto:perso...@charleskiyanda.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 9:27 AM
To: Harald Kliems
Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] coastline between Montreal and Sorel, Quebec
The question of where does the coastline end and riverbank start
You’re best off tagging the road (highway=track probably, maybe
highway=unclassified) and indicating that it’s part of the Trans Canada Trail
with a relation.
From: Brian Lang [mailto:bril...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 9:15 PM
To: Richard Weait
Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
I am planning on hosting a mapping event in Central Park
(http://osm.org/way/23165846), in Burnaby, BC.
My tentative date is Sunday, June 15th at around noon, but if people
want a different time I could shift it.
The park is a major park in the region, but under-mapped, with
potentially not
digest...
Today's Topics:
1. Re: Local Vancouver meeting: Map Central Park (Clifford Snow)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 09:53:03 -0700
From: Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us
To: Paul Norman penor...@mac.com
I was curious how complete OpenStreetMap shop data was, so decided to
do an analysis for some Canadian chains.
The results were mixed. Starting with a Canada extract, I processed the
data into PostGIS and ran queries against name, brand and franchise for
objects where amenity, office or shop was
The parking lot at swangard stadium is full for an event. Parking lot off of
boundary nearest, marked for pool/stadium. Call 604 7792432 if needed. Wearing
high vis osm vest
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Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
For some time I have been taking pictures to map from, and now that
Mapillary is out, I finally have a way to share them.
Mapillary is a company that is making a service similar to the old
OpenStreetView, where they collect pictures of roads. The difference is
that they currently offer the
On 8/1/2014 10:16 AM, Michael Zajac wrote:
Does this look compatible with OSM?
No one has yet evaluated the various OGL variants for compatibility with
other licenses. I've gotten explicit statements of compatibility from
some sources.
For that matter, the various variants aren't listed as
On Tuesday October 28th, there will be an OpenStreetMap meetup held in
Vancouver.
http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Vancouver/events/214167332/
We'll be holding it in the Bread Garden in Metrotown
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/257886760), with convenient access to
transit and nearby
On 11/9/2014 8:48 AM, Steve Singer wrote:
What is the current procedure for meeting the attribution requirement
of a municipal data-source released under the 'Open Government Licence ?
Unfortunately each Open Government License is different, and when I've
asked about license compatibility
On 11/17/2014 5:50 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
Is there any way to de-tile the data? I realise that most of Canada is
one giant water relation, but is there a data processing pipeline that
can recognize and join up split entities?
I looked at this, but it's better to go back to the original
From: Satoshi IIDA [mailto:nyamp...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 3:59 PM
To: OpenStreetMap Japanese talk
Cc: d...@osmfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-ja] osapon imports
Hi
Please let me confirm one point.
Is it mandatory to using dedicated account to import?
We devided
Also sorry for answering with English.
The practice in some regions of using name=Local Name (English Name) breaks
multi-lingual renderings *badly*, because if you try to then do an English
map you end up with English Name (Local Name (English Name)).
The OSM.org Mapnik rendering is not
I was working on osm2pgsql stuff and ran across a lot of tags from the KSJ2
import, many of which can probably be deleted.
It looks the shapefile - osm conversion dumped all the shapefile attributes
in as KSJ:* tags
Below are a couple of samples, English in brackets is a translation
Way
From: Satoshi IIDA [mailto:nyamp...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Imports] Deletable KSJ2 import tags
I think all the those tags are deletable.
Unless someone objects I'll be going with the following tags as some of
the ones I listed earlier occur very
:RAC
KSJ2:RAC_label
KSJ2:RIC
KSJ2:RIN
KSJ2:WSC
KSJ2:coordinate
KSJ2:curve_id
KSJ2:curve_type
KSJ2:filename
KSJ2:lake_id
KSJ2:lat
KSJ2:long
KSJ2:river_id
-Original Message-
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 8:27 PM
To: 'Satoshi IIDA'
Cc: impo
Right now the main OpenStreetMap.org stylesheet uses Unifont as a
fallback font to render Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) characters,
as well as any other characters not present in the DejaVu font. Unifont
is mainly designed to support all characters, and is not designed to
look good.
I'm
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 9:19 PM
To: t...@openstreetmap.org; talk-ja@openstreetmap.org; talk-
k...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-talk] CJK fallback fonts - testing needed
Right now the main OpenStreetMap.org stylesheet uses Unifont
Unlike the OSM website, the default language for the iD editor is en_US.
Because there are differences between en_US and en_GB, I've had an en_GB
translation added, but translators are needed to fill it out.
Instructions for translating iD are at
From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk]
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD
Rob Nickerson wrote:
2). iD is a general purpose editor. It can be used for
OpenHistoricalMap too.
Indeed - perhaps I should have been clearer that I'm talking about the
From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk]
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 4:44 AM
To: Paul Norman; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD
Paul Norman wrote:
It's worth pointing out that iD doesn't actually have an imagery list
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 3:03 PM
To: 'SomeoneElse'; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Editor backbground layers in iD
It's worth pointing out that iD doesn't actually have an imagery list.
It inherits its from the editor
From: Nick Whitelegg [mailto:nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 4:59 AM
Subject: [OSM-talk] Hobbyist OSM Data Server?
So I'm wondering whether we could, if enough people raise contributions,
have an OSM read only, hobbyist server which could be used to host
On 2014-06-08 1:28 PM, Rob Nickerson wrote:
What would you consider a demonstration of success exactly?
Tom
Tom,
Measuring the success of a bot can be done in the same way that the
success is measured in a statistical model; Type I and Type II errors.
So for example, if the test is to
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