Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-20 Thread Matt White
I probably would have gone with : big_thing=yes kitsch=yes\no (yes being the default) Matt Sam Vekemans wrote: In Canada there is a giant plaster moose on the side of the highway. But someone defaced it, and its missing its jaw. Now that piece of jaw was found and its in the museum (visitors

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] tag proposal surface=gravel; concrete: dirt; grass

2009-08-20 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 11/8/09, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: So anyway, i propose to add surface=gravel;dirt;grass;concrete, to go along side highway=value. (which listed more generally, what the way is generally used for (type of travel between 2 points) Umm someone already has

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-de] [Osmf-talk] EVERYONE: PLEASE VOTE

2009-08-20 Thread Ulf Lamping
SteveC schrieb: We're in a very difficult position and don't always make the right choices. CloudMade has contributed tens of thousands of pounds in cash to the Foundation for things like sponsorship and servers. We've spent man years on coding work. Nick, me and many other in CloudMade

Re: [Talk-ca] [Osmf-talk] EVERYONE: PLEASE VOTE

2009-08-20 Thread SteveC
On 20 Aug 2009, at 00:32, Jochen Topf wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 06:12:46PM -0700, SteveC wrote: But lets look at the real issue, Frederik. You're intensely jealous that your own firm, GeoFabrik, which you didn't bother to declare in your anti-CM email, has had little success compared to

[Talk-ca] Nanaimo Status Update

2009-08-20 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi Jamie (and talk-ca list), I got quite a few of the duplicate Nanaimo roads that were previously imported (with CAPS and which roads not connected) removed. I copied over the GeoBaseNRN roads that Austin converted and made the .osm file available. ... there are still a few left. One option, is

Re: [Talk-ca] NTS sheet to lat/lon converter

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steggink
Frank Steggink wrote: Hi, Because it is not obvious to everyone what the extent of the NTS sheets is, I've created a little service which converts them to lat/lon coordinates. It is also possible to show them directly as a box in OpenStreetMap. I'm not sure if a similar service exists

Re: [Talk-ca] NTS sheet to lat/lon converter

2009-08-20 Thread Sam Vekemans
Thanks :) I just used your tile BBOX so then the link is in the chart. ... We always use http://geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/en/product/search.do?id=28954 But since it's hard to get the BBOX your method is awesome :) What do you think of the googleDoc chart? I tried it for that tile you listed in

Re: [Talk-ca] NTS sheet to lat/lon converter

2009-08-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Frank Stegginkstegg...@steggink.org wrote: Hi, Because it is not obvious to everyone what the extent of the NTS sheets is, I've created a little service which converts them to lat/lon coordinates. It is also possible to show them directly as a box in

Re: [Talk-ca] NTS sheet to lat/lon converter

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steggink
Sam Vekemans wrote: Thanks :) I just used your tile BBOX so then the link is in the chart. ... We always use http://geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/en/product/search.do?id=28954 But since it's hard to get the BBOX your method is awesome :) What do you think of the googleDoc chart? I tried it

Re: [Talk-ca] NTS sheet to lat/lon converter

2009-08-20 Thread Sam Vekemans
Thanks frank, I'll give you access to it, so if you have time your welcome to fill-in-the-blanks with that bbox link. If not, thats ok too, im now using it as I go along. Cheers, Sam Twitter: @Acrosscanada Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Frank

Re: [Talk-ca] NTS sheet to lat/lon converter

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steggink
Richard Weait wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Frank Stegginkstegg...@steggink.org wrote: Hi, Because it is not obvious to everyone what the extent of the NTS sheets is, I've created a little service which converts them to lat/lon coordinates. It is also possible to show them