Re: [Talk-ca] Medicine Hat, Alberta

2013-01-29 Thread Andrew Allison
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 16:37 -0500, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: Le 13-01-26 12:09 PM, Andrew Allison a ←crit : [...]I senf Smillence a copy of this email with a welcome note. Could you share your welcome note? I'd like to come up with a template of some sort. Thank you. F. Well I'm not

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto OSM Hack Weekend

2013-01-29 Thread Richard Weait
Fellow Canadian OSM developers (and aspiring developers). Add yourselves to the wiki and let us know that you are planning to attend the Hack Weekend. Hack Weekends have a wonderful history in OSM, having lead to most of the major milestones in OSMs growth and development. including

[Talk-ca] Sidewalks

2013-01-29 Thread Connors, Bernie (SNB)
I came across this when I was working on Map Roulette connectivity corrections - http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.98773840069771lon=-81.24551922082901zoom=18 I thought it was not advised to digitize sidewalks along urban streets - Are there any other opinions on this? -- Bernie Connors,

Re: [Talk-ca] Sidewalks

2013-01-29 Thread Gordon Dewis
Curious. I wonder if they were trying to get pedestrian routing working. Vaguely reminds me of something I read somewhere for streets maps for people who are blind. Why not ask the person who added them? --G Sent from my iPhone On 2013-01-29, at 20:10, Connors, Bernie (SNB)

Re: [Talk-ca] Sidewalks

2013-01-29 Thread Harald Kliems
Personally I don't map sidewalks like that but I respect local mappers' work and would not change this, as it isn't really wrong. I don't think there's a strong consensus to map sidewalks merely as attributes of the adjoining road, and there are a lot of problems with that approach, too. E.g. how