[Talk-ca] Tips request on gathering trails.

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Houle
Hi, I'm from Sherwood Park, Alberta. I just joined talk-ca, so I'll start getting more informed on what's going on. I've been thinking about how I'll start on some trails that I'm interested in uploading. And I thought that some projects may be quite large to undertake. Imagine walking the ent

Re: [Talk-ca] geobase ferry routes

2009-04-14 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool, i'll start a bug report list for geobase2osm, with all the notes and FAQ as they happen. ... And if they get caught before escaping to the deep archives of my inbox :-) Sam On 4/14/09, Steve Singer wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Sam Vekemans wrote: > >> Thanks, >> 1 option is to use canvec

Re: [Talk-ca] geobase ferry routes

2009-04-14 Thread Steve Singer
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Thanks, > 1 option is to use canvec since is only these few routes. > What about 'blocked passage' has this been spotted in alberta? > > I'll add it as a bug anyway. The number of routes is small enough that I don't think it matters where they come from

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
this is great work, signs could be a bit smaller tough. why not stick with the symbol tag? see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging the symbols tagging should be transparent to the mappers not only to some internal notation of a renderer. and tags should be human readab

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Richard Weait wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 04:39 -0500, Joseph Jon Booker wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:54:12 -0500 >> Ian Dees wrote: >> >> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Nicholas Vetrovec >> > wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > Posted on the US Page to help coor

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > >  network=us_i_2 # Interstate (2 digit) us_i_3 for 3 digit >  network=us_us_2 # US Route us_us_3 for 3 digit >  network=us_ny # NY State Route >  network=us_ny_county # > > That looks great to me, except that us_i_2 vs us_i_3 seems like taggi

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Apollinaris Schoell
On 12 Apr 2009, at 9:01 , Adam Schreiber wrote: > > Probably because the mapper can easily identify the type of road (i.e. > Interstate, US Hwy, etc.). I'm not sure that the mapper should be > specifying the URL of the sign since it requires extra work to find it > and any renderer should be able

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > this is great work, signs could be a bit smaller tough. > > why not stick with the symbol tag? see > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_roads_tagging > the symbols tagging should be transparent to the mappers not only to

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Greg Troxel
Richard Weait writes: > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 16:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Apollinaris Schoell wrote: >> > It contains all you need to pick the correct sign. But you need the >> > whole knowledge about signs for all states, county ... >> > as an example California uses different signs

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > > On 13 Apr 2009, at 5:36 , Adam Schreiber wrote: > >> >> What about: >> >> addr:country=us >> addr:state=ca >> network=us >> >> or >> >> addr:country=us >> addr:state=ca >> network=i >> > > network should be US, I, > all signs us

[Talk-ca] Issues in Winnipeg

2009-04-14 Thread Sam Dyck
Hi In an email from fellow OSMer when when causally mentioned that he was using city maps, paper maps and google to get street names for OSM in Winnipeg. I replied and pointed out the policy regarding this but after several days of waiting for a reply have got none. What fo I do. I would like help

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Greg Troxel
network=us_i_2 # Interstate (2 digit) us_i_3 for 3 digit network=us_us_2 # US Route us_us_3 for 3 digit network=us_ny # NY State Route network=us_ny_county # That looks great to me, except that us_i_2 vs us_i_3 seems like tagging for the renderer, and something that would be easy for the

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-14 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > The US highways in California are really (I think) regular US highways, > but CA uses a different kind of sign.  So tagging then us_us_ca seems > again like tagging for the renderer.  This is sort of OK, perhaps, but > it bothers me perhaps bec