Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

I believe Bjenk was kidding when stating he'd be buying a coffee. On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:16 PM, john whelan wrote: > Both the City of Ottawa and the Canadian Federal Government have rules in > place about bribery and corruption. Buying a civil servant a coffee these >

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Both the City of Ottawa and the Canadian Federal Government have rules in place about bribery and corruption. Buying a civil servant a coffee these days is one of the forbidden activities. I do trust you are not suggesting that illegal methods were used when the data was obtained. The use of

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Bjenk(STATS Can) is communicating/pushing with the the city of Ottawa, even may resolve to offering coffee bribes to be able to host the shared file on open.canada.ca. He's been relentless in his effort to move the project forward, but as most Canadian gouvernment entities it moves at a snails

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa Buildings has the revert finished? Is it safe to add a new Internet cafe yet?

Thanks John On 24 Oct 2016 4:54 pm, "Frederik Ramm" wrote: > John, > >the bulk of the revert has run its course, I'm just sifting through > the remaining incomplete things for a little fixup here and there. I > think normal mapping should be safe now ;) > > Bye >

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa Buildings has the revert finished? Is it safe to add a new Internet cafe yet?

John, the bulk of the revert has run its course, I'm just sifting through the remaining incomplete things for a little fixup here and there. I think normal mapping should be safe now ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

On 2016-10-24 4:08 PM, James wrote: I've updated the file(I can't delete it without and admin) thanks James, looks good. -jeff -- Jeff McKenna President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna ___ Talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

I've updated the file(I can't delete it without and admin) On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote: > On 2016-10-24 3:50 PM, James wrote: > >> It was more to prove that the emails are Trusted sources and not made >> up. The emails are public already

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa Buildings has the revert finished? Is it safe to add a new Internet cafe yet?

Judging by http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/woodpeck_repair/history#map=10/45.2996/-75.6981 There hasn't been activity in 24hrs... Frederik Ramm said he'd update us. On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:56 PM, john whelan wrote: > Thanks John > >

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

On 2016-10-24 3:50 PM, James wrote: It was more to prove that the emails are Trusted sources and not made up. The emails are public already in the contact section of the import wiki.If I hide emails/domains then I'm obfuscating the process. These emails are public emails @ottawa.ca

[Talk-ca] Ottawa Buildings has the revert finished? Is it safe to add a new Internet cafe yet?

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Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

It was more to prove that the emails are Trusted sources and not made up. The emails are public already in the contact section of the import wiki.If I hide emails/domains then I'm obfuscating the process. These emails are public emails @ottawa.ca and @canada.ca. No personal emails are visible On

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

On 2016-10-24 3:28 PM, James wrote: I've received a forwarded email from Bjenk that may settle the debate where the data originates from (I'd forward it to the list, but it would be lost in the mail archive and detach the main thread(:

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

You asked: Could you please clarify what the alleged source of the building data to be imported is? I clarified. I did not change the subject. The source of the data is the city of Ottawa On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Monday 24 October

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

As for general availability of the files I have this email chain(which was documented that there was bureaucracy behind the scenes): *From:* Perkins, Stephen M [mailto:stephen.perk...@ottawa.ca] *Sent:* July-26-16 4:15 PM *To:* Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) *Cc:* Cross,

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Christoph, At the moment the Ottawa building footprint dataset is not on any official portal other then being shared on a public Amazon S3 Bucket. You can download the file here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/statscan/ottawa-buildings.geojson The data doesn't contain any specific tags, only the

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

As stated, multiple times on this list already: the city of Ottawa gave data to Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada gave us (amazon cloud link) data, which is just building outlines. In case you are in doubt this project is actually happening or not (and I am just making the whole thing up):

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

Seems like they may have dumped it on their servers to the public: http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/cad-topographic-data This would explain why some buildings are outdated: *Update Frequency: Never*as compared to: http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/addresspoints *Update Frequency: Weekly* On Mon, Oct

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

On 2016-10-24 08:04 AM, James wrote: > I've updated the documentation and incorporated Scruss's findings on the > build source data: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/TopographicMap Cool! I was hoping to be able to show that the geojson data that you were given

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

So to obtain all data for building outlines(from source) (from what scruss has provided) we would need to convert all tiles of the building outline and join them together as it clips on edge of tile: http://i66.tinypic.com/2i1ffpx.png As for additional information from the DWG I have not see any

Re: [Talk-ca] Open data in Canada

I've previously documented the Lower Mainland ones here as well: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia:Vancouver#GIS_sources_by_city Maybe some of this should be moved to your table. Note the OGL-BC which many of these cities are based on seems to have some potential problems

[Talk-ca] Open data in Canada

I've been looking for open data portals for potential future import into OpenStreetMap(why duplicate efforts right?) I've documented the one's I've found here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada#Open_Data ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

I've updated the documentation and incorporated Scruss's findings on the build source data: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/TopographicMap On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Begin Daniel wrote: > Well, only very large buildings can be found as