Re: [Talk-ca] importing data requiring attribution

. Thanks! Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 3/7/2017 12:14 PM, Alan Richards wrote: From what I've seen so far, the opinion seems to be that the OGL-BC devived licenses like this one require a statement about the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. This was done for the City

Re: [Talk-ca] [Qgis-user] QGOS maps fort Garmin GPS

collection of the best available, license-compatible data. Bulk uploads are usually frowned upon, due to the ease of overwriting existing data, so extra care must be taken. I'll CC the OSM-Ca list (and we should drop out of the QGIS list unless we have QGIS-related issues) Best Regards, Brent Fras

Re: [Talk-ca] Powerlines in Canada

You may want to also keep an eye on http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/news/2012/rnte.html Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 1/20/2013 10:03 AM, fk270...@fantasymail.de wrote: As requested, I would like to give an explaining statement on those Canadian powerlines which I have edited so far

Re: [Talk-ca] GPS inaccuracy

or even 10 meters. And as others have pointed out, the positional [in]accuracy of Bing and Canvec could exceed 10 meters. Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 11/19/2012 8:29 AM, Tom Taylor wrote: I will do a resurvey in the way you suggest. It was really disappointing to find I couldn't trust my GPS

Re: [Talk-ca] Old CanVec versions

I've got a copy of v6 on my network. Did you want one sheet or all of it? Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 10/15/2011 2:06 AM, Paul Norman wrote: Does anyone know where I can find old CanVec versions? I was looking into http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.608497lon=-63.629537zoom=18layers

Re: [Talk-ca] [HOT] Flooding in Richelieu River, Quebec, Canada :Follow-up(Complement of information)

Daniel, The SRTM data has 90m cell size, while the CDED (from the Geobase site) has 30m cells (and 1m height resolution) which might rendered better contours. Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 5/27/2011 11:52 AM, Daniel Begin wrote: Bonjour tous le monde, I have generated a 30m and 31m

[Talk-ca] Off-topic: general Canvec issues

preventing bolding of major contours Stream Layer (HD_1470009_1): major streams broken at tributary intersections preventing single label for streams Thanks! -- Best Regards, Brent Fraser ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] Notes on a Saskatchewan import

Tyler, The values for the name keys look good! Is the highway geometry from the road network or Statscan? Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 3/2/2011 9:57 PM, Tyler Gunn wrote: On 2011-03-02, at 8:38 PM, Brent Fraser wrote: Tyler, The problem I have with the Statscan data is they have

Re: [Talk-ca] Notes on a Saskatchewan import

Hmmm. Maybe I'll hold off on importing any more Canvec roads until Edition 8 (due in April?). Are there any other major changes in Ed. 8? If not, I may continue to upload non-road features from Ed 7... Best Regards, Brent Fraser On 3/1/2011 11:57 AM, Bégin, Daniel wrote: Bonjour Brent

[Talk-ca] Notes on a Saskatchewan import

- newer geometry but positional accuracy poor - incomplete street names (unless you combine NAME and TYPE attributes) MacLeod AVE - has address ranges -- Best Regards, Brent Fraser ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] Over-classification of rural roads in Canvec data?

) The transportation file has roads with 10 to 20 classes Best Regards, Brent Fraser Tyler Gunn wrote: Hello, I'm ALMOST done importing the entirety of the 062N* area of Canvec data and wanted to pass along something I observed: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.171lon=-100.413zoom=11layers=M

Re: [Talk-ca] Over-classification of rural roads in Canvec data?

rich...@weait.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:52:14 -0600, Brent Fraser bfra...@geoanalytic.com wrote: Tyler, Have you considered using the 1:20k data published by the Manitoba government? I think the license

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping Private Roads?

My friend is very comfortable traveling around the property. I'm not so comfortable with his offer to take me around the property (he has an employee ID, I don't). The airspace overhead is not restricted (at least not any more than non-company property nearby), so the road grid information

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm samples

My personal favorite, Waterton Park (82H04)in Alberta, specifically the townsite: 49.0 to 49.1 -113.9 to -114.0 Best Regards, Brent Fraser Bégin wrote: Bonjour! I'm ready to release some samples to get your feedback on the Canvec.osm product. I wont be able to release complete NTS

Re: [Talk-ca] PR stuff Ottawa Opendata Sat 24th April

John, Maybe someone at some of the Open Source software outfits (like DMSolutions, Mapgears, or Gateway Geomatics) could help? Or maybe ask on the OSGeo email list... Best regards, Brent Fraser john whelan wrote: http://opendataottawa.ca/ It's at City Hall and it looks like the press

Re: [Talk-ca] Nts tile names

Sam, Each CanVec tile has a date in its XML metadata (in the lineagesrcinfosrctime tag). Perhaps it might be useful. Best Regards, Brent Fraser Sam Vekemans wrote: Thanks, I even have access to it on my mobile :) 'year valid' is what we need (doesnt need to be exact). In other news

[Talk-ca] Canvec 4 released

/CanVec_release_4.txt Best Regards, Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] silly borders

And for those who like to parse latitude and longitude: http://www.internationalboundarycommission.org/products.html#coordinates Best Regards, Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. Calgary, Alberta Mepham, Michael wrote: Stupid spell checker GeoBase, not Georgia. The values in GeoBase

[Talk-ca] StatsCan Road Network

TYPE=AVE DIRECTION=SW ADDR_FM_LE=707 ADDR_TO_LE=707 ADDR_FM_RG=700 ADDR_TO_RG=744 Brent Fraser GeoAnalytic Inc. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian data - GeoGratis (and an accuracy rant)

... Best Regards, Brent Fraser Richard Weait wrote: Hi folks, From the good folks at Natural Resources Canada (GeoBase). Yes you can use the data found on GeoGratis site . The licences are identical. The only differences are the copyrights, one is GeoBase, the other one is NRCan