[Talk-ca] Mappy New Year.

Mappy New Year, mappers. I'd love to see more Canadian cities start to host monthly OpenStreetMap events in 2013. They're a great way to meet other mappers, to learn and share the experiences of other mappers, to learn about the other things interesting people do besides mapping. And they're

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto-area events in early January

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: 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

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec misalignment? Ottawa end of Portage Bridge

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:30 AM, William Rieck bi...@thinkers.org wrote: There is no gospel, although surveys and GPS traces may be close, but certainly not Bing and CanVec imports. The map should represent what you see on the ground, so make whatever adjustments are needed, using deduction

[Talk-ca] Fredericton WMS Offset

Hello all, I've been recently drawing all of the buildings in Fredericton in preparation for going around and collecting the addresses. I'd noticed that all the buildings in Fredericton were offset. Naturally I assumed that the original mappers in Fredericton had done this offset on purpose. I

Re: [Talk-ca] Osmose, Outil de qualité, maintenant disponible pour le Québec

I’ve been looking at a bot to fix the double-space issue with CanVec/Geobase, but no idea when I’ll have the time for it so don’t let that stop anyone else interested from developing one, consulting, etc. Serge’s work in the US with TIGER name expansions might be helpful. Also, just a