[Talk-ca] Is Edmonton broken? (NW)

2009-04-06 Thread Richard Weait
Where does Edmonton divide between NE / NW / SE / SW ? The _vast_ majority of the roads I see on our map are listed as something Street NW, Surely the division should be something lose to equal quarters, No? Would a Northern Alberta expert please have a look at this?

Re: [Talk-ca] Who own www.openstreetmap.ca

2009-04-06 Thread Jason Reid
Jean-Sébastien Moreau wrote: Hello, I would be interested to know who own this website. Thanks! Jean-Sebastien The domain was registered by Daryl Shpak who has been taking care of covering its registration costs, and its currently hosted on a server of mine. -Jason Reid

Re: [Talk-ca] Is Edmonton broken? (NW)

2009-04-06 Thread Matthew Vavrek
Edmonton is just weird, not broken. As far as I know, Edmonton was running out of street numbers as the city grew south and east (people don't like negative street numbers, oddly enough), so they started using a quadrant naming system. However, this means that virtually the entire city falls

[Talk-ca] Fwd: FW: FW: GeoBase NHN FTP directory not working

2009-04-06 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi all, The FTP for the NHN directory is now back to how it should be :) So i can make that Tofino Example. Here's a chart comparing the datasets. PRODUCTS INFORMATION AND STATISTICS FROM GEOBASE = BLUE AND GEOGRATIS = RED PRODUCT SCALE COORD Format Nbrs files Size Comp.Cover CanVec 50k

Re: [Talk-ca] Is Edmonton broken? (NW)

2009-04-06 Thread James Ewen
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Matthew Vavrek mattvav...@hotmail.com wrote: Edmonton is just weird, not broken. As far as I know, Edmonton was running out of street numbers as the city grew south and east (people don't like negative street numbers, oddly enough), so they started using a

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Addr:streetnumber:first;last:left;right

2009-04-06 Thread Sam Vekemans
The data set does have the city:left city :right fields. (as part of the DBF file) Although probably not useful because the city boundry will eventually get shown. And ya, use the last sample of canvec (as its the best) -Niagara falls Ontario addr:interpolation i'll add that tag, thanks. ... but

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Addr:streetnumber:first;last:left;right

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Singer
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Sam Vekemans wrote: addr:alternatenumber house number If a object has two numbers. Better use addr:housenumber=first;second *** So the line can show a long stretch from second where it would be the 'last'? Would this work? Drawing a long straight line from the first

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Addr:streetnumber:first;last:left;right

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Singer
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, andrzej zaborowski wrote: I'm not completely sure either representation is better... maybe both types should be standardised - the UMP project makes maps particularly for Garmin devices so apparently if you upload your map into your Garmin receiver and ask it to route you