[Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap.ca

2010-04-27 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hey all, a quick reminder that the website domain has expired, and its past the renew date. I havent been able to get contact with user:Dshpak (who is the owner) So if he let it laps, it maybe available. Anyone want to purchaise it? Im sure whoever does will be willing to allow for multiple

[Talk-ca] Fwd: [talk-au] Nearmap CEO in ABC radio interview

2010-04-27 Thread Sam Vekemans
I'm forwarding this to the talk-ca@ list, so that we are aware that this technology is out there. If anyone is interested in imagery, we do have data available Canada. I havent looked at it, so i dont know how it compares with what we have already. Personally, for my own objectives, im more

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap.ca

2010-04-27 Thread tyler
On 2010-04-27, at 2:29 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, a quick reminder that the website domain has expired, and its past the renew date. I havent been able to get contact with user:Dshpak (who is the owner) So if he let it laps, it maybe available. Anyone

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap.ca

2010-04-27 Thread tyler
On 2010-04-27, at 2:29 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, a quick reminder that the website domain has expired, and its past the renew date. I havent been able to get contact with user:Dshpak (who is the owner) So if he let it laps, it maybe available. Anyone

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap.ca

2010-04-27 Thread Sam Vekemans
Well, I'm no expert on this. All i know is that before 2 days ago, it was registered to user:Dshpak (he's the OSM mapper who did all the nations coastline) or made the conversion program or something? It then time lapsed, and it looks like it got picked up my a domain collecting thing.

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap.ca

2010-04-27 Thread Gregory
I bought britishstudent.ca at domainsatcost, it seems to be a good and well priced place for .ca The fact that the website is still up suggests it isn't a mean domain grabber (it would have been replaced with bad ads by now). Does anybody know what the whois was before it was set to expire? I

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap.ca

2010-04-27 Thread tyler
Well, I'm no expert on this. No worries; I know enough about domain maintenance to get by as I host my own personal one. All i know is that before 2 days ago, it was registered to user:Dshpak (he's the OSM mapper who did all the nations coastline) or made the conversion program or

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap.ca

2010-04-27 Thread Nicolas Gignac
For your info : the *Centre de géomatique du Québec* (www.cgq.qc.ca) has decided to host the Quebec OpenData-OSM site. We would discuss the project during the Rendez-vous OSGeo-Qc 2010 in Saguenay in June 2010 : http://rendez-vous-osgeo-qc.org/2010/english/ Cheers, Nicolas 2010/4/27 Sam

[Talk-ca] Is it time to set up a openstreetmap.ca organization / registered charity?

2010-04-27 Thread john whelan
It could look after things such as the Openstreetmap.ca domain, forward a few dollars into europe keep the servers going, possibly raise a few dollars to purchase a couple of GPS devices for street mapping parties, even send a few to Africa etc to help Openstreetmap over there. The Charitable

Re: [Talk-ca] Is it time to set up a openstreetmap.ca organization / registered charity?

2010-04-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:19 AM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: It could look after things such as the Openstreetmap.ca domain, forward a few dollars into europe keep the servers going, possibly raise a few dollars to purchase a couple of GPS devices for street mapping parties, even

Re: [Talk-ca] Is it time to set up a openstreetmap.ca organization / registered charity?

2010-04-27 Thread Sam Vekemans
Yup, and if anyone wants to help out a little more, they can jump in the #osm IRC and help out a newbie. And if your looking for Canadian content, help man the #osm-ca IRC (i'm not always on it, and i dont need to answer if someone else is able to). There are 3 OSGeo groups in Canada, and they