Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca is up!

2013-04-22 Thread Duncan Hill
I'll second Harald's suggestion to have the map show Canada on load. On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote: First, thanks to Darryl and Richard for taking care of this! I have one quick, easy (I assume), and probably non-controversial suggestion: when I

Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca is up!

2013-04-22 Thread Bruno Remy
The same for me. Thanks Best regards Bruno Remy Le 2013-04-22 07:10, Duncan Hill dun...@soncan.ca a écrit : I'll second Harald's suggestion to have the map show Canada on load. On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote: First, thanks to Darryl and Richard for

[Talk-ca] Inauguration du nouvel aéroport de Puvirnituq (QC)

2013-04-22 Thread Bruno Remy
Aujourd’hui, c’est l’inauguration du nouvel aéroport de Puvirnituq. Guillaume Paradis, porte-parole du Ministère des Transports du Québec y participe ! (https://twitter.com/Guill_Paradis/status/326285638808788993) L'occasion peut-être de travailler un peu dans cette zone pour en améliorer la

Re: [Talk-ca] Inauguration du nouvel aéroport de Puvirnituq (QC)

2013-04-22 Thread Pierre Béland
Bonjour Rémy malheureusement, nous n'avons pas d'imagerie Bing haute resolution pour cette zone. Et ça me surprendrait que le ministère des transports accepte de nous fournir des données avec licence ODbL.   Pierre De : Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com À 

Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca is up!

2013-04-22 Thread Richard Weait
Flesh it out. Try to fill in all four points, rather than just the idea. What zoom and center point? How does that work on different devices / resolution / orientation? How will this be implemented? What effect will this have on a returning visitor? What else?

Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca is up!

2013-04-22 Thread AJ Ashton
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: What zoom and center point? How does that work on different devices / resolution / orientation? The map view can be based on a bounding box, so a strategically-selected bounding box should handle all of these variables

Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca is up!

2013-04-22 Thread Stewart Russell
Being returned to the last edited thing is the best! If I saw all of Canada every time I went to the website I'd be pulling lots of tiles and queries to get where I want to go. Cheers Stewart ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Inauguration du nouvel aéroport de Puvirnituq (QC)

2013-04-22 Thread Bruno Remy
Bonjour Pierre! Long time no see ;-) Bonjour la communauté Canadienne OSM! Le Ministère des transports du Québec ne prévoit pas publier ce type de données (à court terme) mais nous a dit prévoir publier d'autres données, telles que les bornes téléphoniques d'urgence, les centres de localités

[Talk-ca] Routing tool for openstreetmap.ca?

2013-04-22 Thread Samuel Longiaru
Another big thanks here to those involved in setting this up! I do have a suggestion for the site. Perhaps it is already implemented elsewhere, in which case maybe all I need is to be reminded of its location so I can update my bookmarks. I think it would be great to have access to a routing

Re: [Talk-ca] Inauguration du nouvel aéroport de Puvirnituq (QC)

2013-04-22 Thread Pierre Béland
Bonjour Rémy, les problèmes sont bien différents à Cap-Haitien au nord de Haiti, où nous a créons la donnée avec 60 stagiaires haitiens. Notre problème il est différent, c'est l'accès à internet. Je vois mieux les problèmes d'édition OSM des pays en développement.   Pierre

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing tool for openstreetmap.ca?

2013-04-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca wrote: Another big thanks here to those involved in setting this up! I do have a suggestion for the site. Perhaps it is already implemented elsewhere, in which case maybe all I need is to be reminded of its location so I can

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing tool for openstreetmap.ca?

2013-04-22 Thread simon
http://map.project-osrm.org/ For Canadian data and the rest of the world. Updates the data twice a day, as I understand it. So is there a way to 'teach' that better routes? Blairmore to Calgary was routed through Fort McLeod (257km)... when the faster/shorted route is via Highway 22 and

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing tool for openstreetmap.ca?

2013-04-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:51 PM, si...@mungewell.org wrote: http://map.project-osrm.org/ For Canadian data and the rest of the world. Updates the data twice a day, as I understand it. So is there a way to 'teach' that better routes? Blairmore to Calgary was routed through Fort

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing tool for openstreetmap.ca?

2013-04-22 Thread Samuel Longiaru
- Original Message - From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com To: Simon Wood si...@mungewell.org Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Sent: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:14:42 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Routing tool for openstreetmap.ca? On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:51 PM,

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing tool for openstreetmap.ca?

2013-04-22 Thread James Ewen
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca wrote: It seems to me that the OSRM routing could benefit greatly by a 0.6 penalty for unpaved roads as had been suggested a few time before, but they don't seem to want to go that way. Why incur a penalty just because the

[Talk-ca] Question?

2013-04-22 Thread Bruno Remy
(English message will follow) Bonjour à tous! :-) Toujours à propos du débat sur les licences, des faits rééls de deux cas de licence ouverte permettent d'établir les points suivants: - Depuis 2009 déjà, la DGFiP (Direction générale des finances publiques) en charge du cadastre en ligne autorise

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing tool for openstreetmap.ca?

2013-04-22 Thread Samuel Longiaru
- James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca wrote: It seems to me that the OSRM routing could benefit greatly by a 0.6 penalty for unpaved roads as had been suggested a few time before, but they don't seem to want to go

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing tool for openstreetmap.ca?

2013-04-22 Thread James Ewen
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca wrote: If your GPS had that, then maybe you wouldn't be fighting with it so much. :) Or if the database contained road surface information, proper speed limit data, and other valuable information, then the routing engine would

Re: [Talk-ca] Question?

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Norman
This is not correct – there are no mandatory tags, and there is no legal reason why a source tag can’t be removed. Incidentally, source tags are perhaps the ones most frequently removed as osm2pgsql drops them by default. If you’re looking at doing an import