Re: [Talk-ca] Stat Can and buildings

2016-06-15 Thread john whelan
After talking to them I'm not clear they understand enough about what they want and have a clear understanding of how to get it. The information you supplied will add to their knowledge and that may help shape their expectations. I think they have some expectations but I'm sure it will unfold

Re: [Talk-ca] Stat Can and buildings

2016-06-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 6/15/2016 3:08 PM, john whelan wrote: Thank you Paul I think that sums up the issue nicely, someone at Stats Canada is going to have fun working out which tags are relevant to them especially when some may be a different way to express the same thing. Plus of course we have

Re: [Talk-ca] Stat Can and buildings

2016-06-15 Thread john whelan
Thank you Paul I think that sums up the issue nicely, someone at Stats Canada is going to have fun working out which tags are relevant to them especially when some may be a different way to express the same thing. Plus of course we have amenity=library etc which might not be tagged as a building

Re: [Talk-ca] Stat Can and buildings

2016-06-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 6/15/2016 8:01 AM, john whelan wrote: As a first step Stats would like to know the tags used when mapping buildings in Canada and the number of times used. This is to get an idea of what is already mapped and to see which values should be used when new tags are added. I looked at a

Re: [Talk-ca] Stat Can and buildings

2016-06-15 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 2016-06-15 11:01 AM, john whelan wrote: > As a first step Stats would like to know the tags used when mapping > buildings in Canada and the number of times used. … I looked at a small > sample from Ottawa and > noted 127 different tags on buildings including address tags. This might be

Re: [Talk-ca] Stat Can and buildings

2016-06-15 Thread john whelan
I'm aware it can be done but not having used overpass turbo I wasn't sure exactly how. I concur it's probably best dug out by a programmer. Cheerio John On 15 June 2016 at 12:54, Adam Martin wrote: > Hey John, > > Best initial source of information on the tags being

Re: [Talk-ca] iD editor

2016-06-15 Thread Clifford Snow
I heard a talk from David Bitner on customizing id for adding information to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA.) His github repository with a code template is https://github.com/missinglinkmaps/custom_id As I recall, BWCA publishes features for various campsites. Using just a small subset of

[Talk-ca] Stat Can and buildings

2016-06-15 Thread john whelan
As a first step Stats would like to know the tags used when mapping buildings in Canada and the number of times used. This is to get an idea of what is already mapped and to see which values should be used when new tags are added. I looked at a small sample from Ottawa and noted 127 different

[Talk-ca] iD editor

2016-06-15 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
iD is being actively developed and I saw that it's also going modular. Does anyone have experience using iD editor for custom projects? Bjenk Ellefsen, PhD Data Exploration and Integration Lab (DEIL) | Lab d'exploration et d'intégration de données (LEID) Center for Special Business Projects