Re: [Talk-ca] What should a Canadian style map look like?

2011-09-14 Thread Adam Glauser
On 9/12/2011 6:32 PM, Richard Weait wrote: Just brain-storming, so let's have suggestions without debate for now. What should the OSM data look like when styled for Canadians? I like the suggestions so far. I'd add - First Nations borders - Crown land boundries - special rendering for

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian_best_practices: bilingual

2010-05-13 Thread Adam Glauser
On 12/05/2010 10:13 PM, Richard Weait wrote: Are there bilingual road signs in Ottawa? Yes. For example: http://bit.ly/9Y8JDn * This can lead to humourous situations when anglos like myself are absentminded. Shortly after moving to Ottawa, when driving around looking for a particular

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] NY Bicycle Routes

2009-11-01 Thread Adam Glauser
Sam's message has me somewhat confused as to who said what. In terms of cycling tagging in North America, where the legal framework is fairly similar* most places, my approach has been as follows, FWIW. First of all, it gets confusing quickly because we don't have much in the way of

Re: [Talk-ca] Users in Ottawa and Geobase

2009-10-29 Thread Adam Glauser
John Whelan wrote: Basically the map in Ottawa is unreliable but we don't know where. There seems to be no way of knowing whether a road has been mapped by GPS trace or sketched in by hand. If I understand the process correctly, to do an import from Geobase you would need to use a script

[Talk-ca] Trans Canada Trail relation

2009-09-21 Thread Adam Glauser
Hi everyone, I was cleaning up some areas where the TCT shares its path with roads and other existing trails (here http://osm.org/go/ZXnePd73--, if you are interested). It appears that there used to be a relation, which was part of a mass deletion recently

Re: [Talk-ca] Trans Canada Trail relation

2009-09-21 Thread Adam Glauser
rich...@weait.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Adam Glauser adamglau...@gmail.com wrote: I was cleaning up some areas where the TCT shares its path with roads and other existing trails (here http://osm.org/go/ZXnePd73--, if you are interested). It appears that there used

Re: [Talk-ca] Ontario 040P

2009-06-17 Thread Adam Glauser
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Adam Glauseradamglau...@gmail.com wrote: I've found (and since corrected) a couple more false-positive matches. It seems Potlatch doesn't like it when you take a long time to save changes. I've now _actually_ made the corrections. Way 35502496 was name=Willow

Re: [Talk-ca] Ontario 040P

2009-06-16 Thread Adam Glauser
I've found (and since corrected) a couple more false-positive matches. Ways 35518380 was name=Old Oak Place, statscan:rbuid=3357619. These tags should actually have been applied to way 35521248. The correct tags for the first way are name=Aspenwood Place, statscan:rbuid=3357613. Way 35502496

Re: [Talk-ca] Ontario 040P

2009-06-14 Thread Adam Glauser
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Steve Singer wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Adam Glauser wrote: I've found a way[1], which appears to have come in with this import, but is incorrectly named.  I checked out the Geobase website and found their viewing tool[2], but I can't see the names

Re: [Talk-ca] Ontario 040P

2009-06-13 Thread Adam Glauser
I've found a way[1], which appears to have come in with this import, but is incorrectly named. I checked out the Geobase website and found their viewing tool[2], but I can't see the names for the NRN ways. How can I check whether this is, in fact, an error in the NRN data? Secondly, when I fix