Re: [Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

2016-09-17 Thread James
; > John > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:43 PM, john whelan > wrote: > >> You realise that the written language is actually European shorthand >> which was used to record the verbal language. >> >> Cheerio John >> >> On 16 September 2016 at 17:35, James

Re: [Talk-ca] Nunavut place names language

2016-09-16 Thread James
I personally dont mind having it in Native language, but if there is going to be changed there should be a corresponding name:en tag as the rest of the world can't read it. One of the reasons I don't mind is: who would possibly use it? People in Nunavut, that's who. It should be as accessible to t

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa has changed its Open Data licence.

2016-09-14 Thread James
Only took 3 years.*hurray*! On Sep 14, 2016 5:16 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > http://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/open-data-licence-version-20 > > It should now be aligned with the Federal Government one so that should > mean we can import the GTFS bus stop file. > > In Ottawa unlike

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs Osmose et changesets

2016-09-12 Thread James
Puis, pour le meme numéro tu pourrais marqué un faux positif car le but ultime serait d'avoir toutes les adresses et aucune interpolation On Sep 12, 2016 7:00 PM, "James" wrote: > 1. Non tu n'a pas besoin de le verifier, c'est parce que qqun a dessiner > un edifi

Re: [Talk-ca] Erreurs Osmose et changesets

2016-09-12 Thread James
1. Non tu n'a pas besoin de le verifier, c'est parce que qqun a dessiner un edifice par dessus un autre, ou meme lui meme 2- A moins d'avoir 100% des addresses sur une rue(ou tu pourrais suprimer l'interpolation), garde les interpolations car quand on cherche une addresse non attrappee par un "sur

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec attributes (roads)

2016-09-12 Thread James
we > wouldn't also necessarily need to look at land use boundaries etc.? At > least that's what I am getting looking at http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/ > en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/23387971-b6d3-4ded-a40b-c8e832b4ea08.html > > -- > Martijn van Exel > m...@rtijn.org &g

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec attributes (roads)

2016-09-11 Thread James
Plus it would help identify which parts and canvec are actually needed vs importing a bunch of forests and hoping for some roads On Sep 11, 2016 2:48 PM, "John Marshall" wrote: > Great idea Martijn, > > One of the big problems of OSM in Canada is there are many missing road > where there are no

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-09 Thread James
Yes, they will have to be as some people get revert happy, if you dont use dedicated accounts. Also this will follow want the guidelines want so everyone can be happy. On Sep 9, 2016 11:51 AM, "Stewart Russell" wrote: > Hi James, > > > If you are asking if we are going to

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-08 Thread James
If you are asking if we are going to just dump a whole lot of data as is in a region, the answer is no. Each tile is going to need manual work to determine what data(adress, building outline, building+adress) and to verify that the data is accurate On Sep 8, 2016 7:15 PM, "Stewart Russell" wrote:

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence compatibility: Open Data Licence for The Regional Municipality of Peel (Version 1.0)

2016-09-08 Thread James
This is something Kevin Farrugia might be able to help us with On Sep 8, 2016 6:12 PM, "Stewart Russell" wrote: > I checked on OSM-legal. Would probably work if we had a statement from > Peel agreeing to inclusion. As is, it's likely not compatible. > > Stewart > > -- Forwarded message -

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-08 Thread James
inden ist, wenn lokale Genehmigung erfolgt. Veröffentlichung auf der Diskussions-ca ist die lokale Gemeinde die Genehmigung, bevor sie zu der Einfuhrliste zu erhalten Guten Tag Herr. On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Michael Reichert wrote: > Hi James, > > Am 08.09.2016 um 18:49 schrieb

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-08 Thread James
hiatus so no need to > invite anyone special. :) > > Kevin > > On Sep 8, 2016 2:24 PM, "Stewart Russell" wrote: > >> Hi James: >> >> As per the import guide lines I wish to seek approval for importing >>> building outlines and addresses in the

Re: [Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-08 Thread James
*Is the Region of Peel licence compatible? I see that it has automatic termination on breech (like many OGL clones) but it also adds "ensure that Your Use of the Information does not breach or infringe upon any applicable laws". This may add usage implications for those downstream.(Some folks from

[Talk-ca] [Import] Local community approval building & addresses in Peel region

2016-09-08 Thread James
As per the import guide lines I wish to seek approval for importing building outlines and addresses in the region of Peel. Documentation is available here: https://github.com/osmottawa/imports/blob/master/Peel-Region.md After 2 weeks (or before) (22 September 2016), if the outcome seems favourabl

Re: [Talk-ca] Annexation/amalgamation of towns/villages in Canada

2016-09-02 Thread James
You can use the disused tag http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:disused: If you really dont want to delete it On Sep 2, 2016 12:03 PM, "yegbin" wrote: > Hi all. > > First post from a new contributor so initially want to say I am enjoying > being a part of this OSM Canadian community. > > I

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
I agree that forest that are way too costly in time should be removed, but they should also be replaced with something(better) not just mass removed, oh well we'll get to it later kind of thing On Sep 1, 2016 8:05 PM, "Sam Dyck" wrote: > I took a break to make supper, so I'm going to have to re

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
>From what Rps333 told me in person he had worked many hours on that changeset and was frustrated when someone reverted before fixes could be applied. Could you revert the revert? On Sep 1, 2016 4:09 PM, "Paul Norman" wrote: > Hello, > > Multiple people have referred this issue and changeset 395

Re: [Talk-ca] Forests/Land Use, was: Canvec reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
because it is a tangible item in the real world, it should be mapped? OpenStreetMap is not just about roads and navigation, it's an Open GIS representation of the world around us. People may be using that information, even if you are not. While we are at it why not just nuke lakes and rivers as the

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-09-01 Thread James
I'm not sure if anyone from the DWG will do anything, but I agree he should be prevented from making changes to Canada. He thinks he knows better than the local mappers On Sep 1, 2016 8:49 AM, "john whelan" wrote: > It would appear that Michael has no appreciation of how we the local > community

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
What tells you he didnt prepare batches outside the upload time(offline)? Your logic is skewed On Sep 1, 2016 8:39 AM, "Michael Reichert" wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Am 2016-09-01 um 12:26 schrieb Begin Daniel: > > Furthermore, I hope you will not use you 100 objects per minute to > decide whether o

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

2016-09-01 Thread James
See that's where I have an issue with your revert logic, if errors are mostly corrected and say theres only 1 or 2 warnings, you want to revert the whole thing which is very bad for: 1. The community and 2. The database. Let me explain: there are many hours that go into merging down CanVec ways and

Re: [Talk-ca] What's up with those forests in Canada section

2016-08-31 Thread James
+1 a lot more detailed than what I wrote On Aug 31, 2016 10:26 PM, "Sam Dyck" wrote: > Here's my suggestion for a sort of FAQ (in wiki markup), incorporating > what James already wrote. I'm posting it here for comment because I have a > tendency to get unhelpfull

Re: [Talk-ca] Qualiuty of OSM data

2016-08-31 Thread James
I've read it in the past, I do agree cavec is not 100% accurate, but in areas with absolutely nothing, it is better than a blank map: which is useless. On Aug 31, 2016 6:02 PM, "dega" wrote: Hi everybody! On 2016-08-31 Stewart C. Russell wrote: > A paper published in the last couple of years (b

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-31 Thread James
If anyone has anything to add: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada#What.27s_with_the_forests_in_Canada.3F On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Sam Dyck wrote: > Or even a just a section of the Wikiproject Canada page. > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:50 AM, James wrote

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-31 Thread James
We could add it as a subpage to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada seeing as it involves all of Canada and list out why it's this way etc On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Begin Daniel wrote: > “Whats up with the forests in Canada?” A wiki page is a good idea! > > > > And whi

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
sarcasm at all, why? Sorry you got that impression L Daniel *From:* James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, 30 August, 2016 20:50 *To:* Begin Daniel *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap; john whelan; Adam Martin *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada Not sure if you are

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
Not sure if you are sarcastic or serious... but anyways, I'm glad the rest of talk-ca feels the same way(sorry for highjacking fix the forest thread even though it was kind of related) On Aug 30, 2016 8:43 PM, "Begin Daniel" wrote: Wow, same ideas, same concerns, provided independently... That

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
ite other canadian OSM contributors to express their agreement with > Daniel message. :) > > > Pierre > > > ------ > *De :* Begin Daniel > *À :* James ; Adam Martin > *Cc :* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap > *Envoyé le :* mardi 30 août 2016 17h35 > *Ob

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
CANVEC stuff will > do until surveys or satellite data catches up with those areas. > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:35 AM, John Marshall wrote: > >> Andrew, I hear you! I have been trying to add data around unmapped >> Northern Communities around James Bay and Nunavut. But a

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
Andrew, you best be careful there is a german that is reverting CanVec imports for stupid little reasons see: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39517002 On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Andrew wrote: > On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 23:47 -0400, Gordon Dewis wrote: > > > On Aug 29, 2016, at 11:12 PM

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-30 Thread James
Yeah I have to run JOSM in 64 bit mode via the jnlp to manage such massive data amounts as the 32bit is slower and is limited about 1.4-1.6GB on windows and 2GB on linux because of how the heap works. P.s. if someone feels up to it we could always map trees as node=tree On Aug 29, 2016 11:49 PM,

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-26 Thread James
water and > forests don’t match. Trying to fix that will drive you to drink. > > —G > > > On Aug 26, 2016, at 5:49 PM, James wrote: > > As gordon said, merging them would be a donting task, especially the more > north you go. Also if you do make a massive forest by merging

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-26 Thread James
As gordon said, merging them would be a donting task, especially the more north you go. Also if you do make a massive forest by merging them all we'll have fun trying to find the relation that defines that forest, because if you download data in the middle of the relation with out hitting one of it

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

2016-08-25 Thread James
Yeah forests are not an easy task to handle, I've been trying to tackle this from time to time in rural areas as to no put a forest in the city, but it's a long process as you need to validate a lot of things before you can upload a small portion of land. I've tackled a few today: http://www.opens

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM - Gatineau largebuilding

2016-08-23 Thread James
Would have to pass through STATS can to get it as gatineau doesn't have the building outlines available(or else I would have imported them) to the public on their data portal On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:15 PM, john whelan wrote: > Stats Canada are arranging to make the Ottawa building dataset

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping exit numbers and destinations in Canada

2016-08-16 Thread James
I dont see why not if we are making the map follow the standards, any misstagging should probably be corrected On Aug 16, 2016 5:21 AM, "Manohar Erikipati" wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Thank you Harald, James and Kevin for your replies. We currently follow the > proposed

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping exit numbers and destinations in Canada

2016-08-11 Thread James
I think this wiki article covers how exits should be mapped: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Exit_Info On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Harald Kliems wrote: > Hi Manohar: > It is my understanding that including destinations in the name is an > artifact of people tagging for the renderer (and/

Re: [Talk-ca] Sujet à discussion: relation multipolygone (natural:forest)

2016-08-08 Thread James
moi je fais toujours un trou de type "inner" c'est plus propre 2016-08-08 16:30 GMT-04:00 dega : > Merci Daniel pour tes commentaires. > Tu as écrit: > "... le concept de couche additive n'existe pas dans OSM." > > Tu as raison. J'ai utilisé des termes nouveaux sans les définir. C'est un > manque

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-06 Thread James
Yeah, that was when I wastracing buildings manually, Gatineau and Ottawa boundaries should maybe be combined into one project as there is duplication(overlap) due to how the task manager splits tiles into nice squares On Aug 5, 2016 11:50 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" wrote: > On 2016-08-05 11:08 PM,

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-08-03 Thread James
f it was > just the non residential ones I think that is reasonable but adding every > residential house is adding less value. Can we identify and omit the > obvious single family homes? > > Cheerio John > > On 3 Aug 2016 7:57 pm, "Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)" < >

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-03 Thread James
d > the info as well. > > > > > > *From:* James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* August-03-16 12:50 PM > *To:* Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) > *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada > > > &

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-03 Thread James
easier On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) < bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> wrote: > Great! Should we start a separate wiki page or put it under OSM Canada? > > > > *From:* James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* August-03-16 12:28 PM > *To:* Ellef

[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-03 Thread James
e we >>> will use, it could be just residential and apartments not be in the choices. >>> >>> >>> >>> We will use the tags reserved for buildings. As John mentioned, malls >>> can have just a few tags and then there are these shops and amenities >

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-03 Thread James
ts not be in the choices. >> >> >> >> We will use the tags reserved for buildings. As John mentioned, malls can >> have just a few tags and then there are these shops and amenities floating >> at the same address. Could we have the building and the tags shops,

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-02 Thread James
it into > JOSM and search for buildings missing the tags. Are we adding building > tags to amenity=place-of_worship? > > Thanks John > > On 2 August 2016 at 18:17, James wrote: > >> would a GeoJSON help you? I have both city limits in geoJSON format >> >> On Tue

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-02 Thread James
would a GeoJSON help you? I have both city limits in geoJSON format On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:59 PM, john whelan wrote: > In order to identify those buildings that need extra tags it would be > extremely useful to have a map of Ottawa / Gatineau that could be loaded > into JOSM. The Ontario map

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-02 Thread James
ilding tag and type? > > How do we handle a shopping mall with a building outline and a nodes for > the stores? > > Thanks John > > On 2 Aug 2016 2:53 pm, "James" wrote: > >> There is a way to tag a building type >> Here is a list of the building types: &

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-02 Thread James
There is a way to tag a building type Here is a list of the building types: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building#Values On Aug 2, 2016 2:48 PM, "Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)" < bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Here is what we would invite Canadians to tell us about

Re: [Talk-ca] Route verte 8 disparue Saguenay Lac St-Jean et rive sud

2016-08-01 Thread James
Translation: Good day The contributor "silentmapping" has seemed to have destroyed the relation "Route verte 8" 15 days ago (Modification Changeset: 40809369). I have written to him to know if he has the intention of recreating it. Is it possible to revert? I'm not familiar with doing so and not

[Talk-ca] Changeset 35565180

2016-08-01 Thread James Mast
have their IDs & history back? I've already left a message on the changeset of this user, so that base has been covered. -James [1] = <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/165600/> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/165600/ [http://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/osm_log

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping tun restrictions in Canada

2016-07-27 Thread James
Seems someone that is inexperienced edited the Carling/Woodruff intersection. That part of town has a lot of invalid things like that and need to be corrected. On Jul 27, 2016 1:38 PM, "Manohar Erikipati" wrote: > Hey there, > Thank you for your reply Andrew MacKinnon. Status update : We mapped

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-07-26 Thread James
ul 25, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) < bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> wrote: > Hi James, > > > > We are working in partnerships with both municipalities of Ottawa and > Gatineau. So far, Ottawa has given us two files. One is a large buildings > file available throu

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-07-19 Thread James
Stewart that lawsuit was dropped, mostly because canada post knew they couldnt copyright a postal code and also they would have to sue every online retailer as they have to collect postal code data of their clients to be able to ship their products On Jul 18, 2016 10:11 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" w

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-07-18 Thread James
Should be pretty easy on the Gatineau sode as all the address points are there, as for Ottawa, not so much until they decide to change their license On Jul 18, 2016 11:28 AM, "Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)" < bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> wrote: > Dear members of the Board of Directors, > > My name is Bj

Re: [Talk-ca] Improving navigation data in several cities in Canada

2016-07-12 Thread James
I use to collect imagery for Mapillary, especially around the Ottawa area, but now I'm collecting street imagery for OpenStreetView.com, which allows you to download your photos as you still own your photos. They are releasing more stuff(like public beta, josm plugin, etc) for the SOTM in Seatle.

Re: [Talk-ca] Route abandonnée

2016-07-05 Thread James
Au point que c'est bloqué tu put mettre barrier=yes et apres tu tag le reste du chemin par access=no 2016-07-05 10:48 GMT-04:00 Pierre Boucher : > Salut a tous, > Comment doit-on "tagger" une route ou rue abandonnée depuis un certain > temps et bloquée par de gros blocs de béton? > > Pierre Bouch

Re: [Talk-ca] restriction=no_right_turn_on_red causing routing problems in Toronto

2016-06-28 Thread James
r the 'restriction' key? I > don't think the developers are likely to bother checking for such an > uncommon tag at this point. > > > I'm routing with OSRM <http://project-osrm.org/>, which is also used on > the homepage of openstreetmap.org. > > >

Re: [Talk-ca] restriction=no_right_turn_on_red causing routing problems in Toronto

2016-06-28 Thread James
What application were you using to route? On Jun 28, 2016 2:13 PM, "Nathan Wessel" wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping to get some advice on what to do with a relatively uncommon > turn restriction tag currently in use in Toronto and Ottawa. > > > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/restriction=no

Re: [Talk-ca] aerial imagery for missing roads

2016-06-26 Thread James
encontrées sur ces route > - surface - minimum 4x4 ou pickup? > - sécurité vs véhicules lourds > - approvisionnements et essence souvent absents > > > Pierre > > > -- > *De :* James > *À :* Michael Zajac > *Cc :* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap >

Re: [Talk-ca] aerial imagery for missing roads

2016-06-26 Thread James
I agree with Michael. What happens if fire services need to use that road or emergency services like ambulence etc. It should be the application's job to determine in which condition a road should or shouldnt be used, not the mappers job to obfuscate the map On Jun 25, 2016 4:01 PM, "Michael Zajac"

Re: [Talk-ca] source http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/

2016-05-25 Thread James
We do have permission from the city to import: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Permission but the OSM lawyers have said that the license is incompatible as the city can pass on a lawsuit if someone sues the city for pointing them to the wrong address with osm data.

Re: [Talk-ca] help

2016-05-14 Thread James
talk-ca-requ...@openstreetmap.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> talk-ca-ow...@openstreetmap.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Talk-ca digest..." >&g

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
Ouin quand tu ote ce polygone le damage estimate n'est plus valide. Tout ce que tu vois sur mapnik en brun, est brulee. Donc s.v.p le laisser On May 13, 2016 9:14 PM, "Pierre Béland" wrote: > James, > > je ne vais pas enlever d'infos sans en discuter. > > J&#

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
s.v.p. ne pas ôter ce way, car il est important aussi On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > oui conserver les polygones a l'intérieur, et enlever way=417984298? > http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/417984298 > > > > Pierre > > > -

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
Les brownfields à l'intérieur du grand poligone est parce que c'était des zones residentielles, mais ils vont être reconstruits plus tard, et j'aime mieux ne pas les supprimées On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:41 PM, Pierre Béland wrote: > James, pour faciliter la gestion de ces obje

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
any local OpenStreetMap local team organize mapathon events working > around tasks #22,#23,#24 ? > > I mean perhaps Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal ? > > Here in Québec city, the community is small , so few volonteers engaged > ... but why not trying ? > Le 13 mai 2016 8:17 PM, "Ja

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
4 PM, john whelan > wrote: > >> Have you talked to dale.ku...@redcross.org? >> >> A coordinated approach might be better. OSM can use data obtained >> through the Gov Canada open data portal and has done in the past as far as >> I am aware. >> >> T

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
"quick" mapping. Where as 24 is correcting technical issues that more experienced users (like andrew and john :P) can point out/fix problems On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Dan Joseph wrote: > Hi James, > > It looks like some good progress is being made on the tasks. > &

Re: [Talk-ca] Red Cross and Fort McMurray Fires

2016-05-13 Thread James
What exactly do you need of me? Prioritize areas to get mapped? We have tasks for the buildings, addresses and streets(which I think have been imported via CanVec) and a validation layer On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Dan Joseph wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm helping coordinate the Canadian Red

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray - Canadian volunteer as a point of contact

2016-05-10 Thread James
Kevin I wasnt sure if it was to trace things in openstreetmap or for something else involving geographical data On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Kevin Farrugia wrote: > According to Paul Norman in an earlier email that licence isn't compatible > with OSM's. > On May 10, 2

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray - Canadian volunteer as a point of contact

2016-05-10 Thread James
Planet has released FMM satelite imagery as CC-BY-SA https://www.planet.com/pulse/fort-mcmurray-wildfire/ On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Heather Leson wrote: > HI Bernie, someone contacted me off list. I am working to coordinate. Just > got off the phone with the CanVost liaison to learn more

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-10 Thread James
If you count a tweet as permission: https://twitter.com/rps333/status/729983088701267968 On May 10, 2016 2:29 AM, "Paul Norman" wrote: > On 5/9/2016 11:17 PM, Heather Leson wrote: > >> Hi Folks >> >> Planet Labs opened up their imagery with an OSM friendly license >> >> https://www.planet.com/pul

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
I doubt we could use this for validating as its creating a derived work and unless we have permission On May 9, 2016 8:20 PM, "Pierre Béland" wrote: > Couche Immeubles, cité de Wood Buffalo > josm tms[19]: > http://gis-portal-api.elasticbeanstalk.com/arcgis/rest/services/basemaps/vectorBasema

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
h with the municipal government to get the data? Bernie. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network. *From: *Kunce, Dale *Sent: *Monday, May 9, 2016 1:24 PM *To: *James *Cc: *Talk-CA OpenStreetMap *Subject: *Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires Quick question would it be possible to ad

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
le and add addresses. This is more complex. > > Third project tile GeoFabrick inspector tool. This is even more complex. > > You can have more than one set of tiles gridding the area. > > Cheerio John > > On 9 May 2016 at 17:36, James wrote: > >> Bing imagery is

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
Bing imagery is better than mapbox in that region. For addressing do you mean building by building or CanVec interpolation? On May 9, 2016 5:11 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > Should we layer this ie one project to map the buildings, another to add > addresses, the processes are quite different and at

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
er and GIS Team Lead | International > Services | American Red Cross > 2025 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20006 > Tel 202.303.4095 | Cell 510.842.7523 | Skype dkunce​ > > > From: James > Date: Monday, May 9, 2016 at 12:24 PM > To: Dale Kunce > Cc: John Marshall , Talk-CA OpenStreetM

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
7523 | Skype dkunce​ > > > > > > > > On 5/9/16, 12:21 PM, "John Marshall" wrote: > > >Dale, > > > >I have ask the CDN Red Cross in Ottawa several times if they would > >like the CDN OSM community to help. Happy to help. > > >

Re: [Talk-ca] Ft. McMurry Fires

2016-05-09 Thread James
Hi Dale I'm not sure if you've been following this list previously, but there was a initiative started already within osm-canada I've created a HOT project here: http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/22 But right now OSM is in read only mode as there is a scheduled maintenance On May 9, 2016 12:12 PM

Re: [Talk-ca] ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca

2016-05-09 Thread James
Seems to be back up for now: http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/OSM/pub/ On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Looks like with all the shuffling of products, we've finally lost our > /OSM/pub folder. Oh well. > > I guess that, since all the CanVEC data is now available under OGL

Re: [Talk-ca] ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca

2016-05-09 Thread James
If you remember what François Paquette sent on this list you wouldnt have to send the email you just sent: The CanVec data in OSM format will not be available from Thursday May 5, 1:00 p.m. to Tuesday May 10, 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). The maintenance period may be modified, please refer to the Geo

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-05 Thread James
inly does. The roads and highways are also > available in CANVEC for firefighters etc. > > Cheerio John > > On 5 May 2016 at 11:45, James wrote: > >> I've created a task on my tasking manager for buildings in Fort McMurray. >> Tracing buildings can help us flag

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-05 Thread James
hey will release thier > imagery. > > I know DigitalGlobe are tasking thier satellites over Fort Mac. > > John Marshall > On May 5, 2016 11:39, "James" wrote: > >> I think we'll have to wait until the fire is put out before we get >> satelite imagery. >

Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

2016-05-05 Thread James
I think we'll have to wait until the fire is put out before we get satelite imagery. What I can do is create a task on tasks.osmcanada.ca for Fort McMurray and we can trace buildings as they are not all there On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: > As you are probably aware by

Re: [Talk-ca] Données ouvertes de Shawinigan, QC

2016-04-25 Thread James
autre probleme Ottawa a la meme clause et fait en sorte que ce n'est pas compatible On Apr 25, 2016 6:51 PM, "James" wrote: > Chu pas un avocat, mais > Cette partie pourrais causer des troubles > > "Vous reconnaissez que cette licence ne vous accorde pas de droits &g

Re: [Talk-ca] Données ouvertes de Shawinigan, QC

2016-04-25 Thread James
Chu pas un avocat, mais Cette partie pourrais causer des troubles "Vous reconnaissez que cette licence ne vous accorde pas de droits d’auteur ou de propriété sur les données. Si vous diffusez ou donnez accès à ces données à un tiers, vous vous engagez à inclure une copie des présentes conditions d

Re: [Talk-ca] Gouvernement du Québec et Municipalités : Nouveau portail et licence ouverte

2016-04-06 Thread James
Scuse j'ai oublié le ne et le pas On Apr 6, 2016 3:33 PM, "Charles Basenga Kiyanda" < perso...@charleskiyanda.com> wrote: > Le lien fourni dit que les licenses ODC-ODbl-1.0 et CC-BY-4.0 sont > INcompatibles. Est-ce que j'ai mal lu l'information? > > Char

Re: [Talk-ca] Gouvernement du Québec et Municipalités : Nouveau portail et licence ouverte

2016-04-06 Thread James
Les licenses ODC-ODbL-1.0 et CC-BY-4.0 sont compatibles. http://clipol.org/licences/70?tab=licence_compatibility 2016-04-06 13:49 GMT-04:00 Charles Basenga Kiyanda < perso...@charleskiyanda.com>: > Ce que je comprends, toutefois, c'est que c'est la clause d'attribution > qui est problématique ave

Re: [Talk-ca] bus stops, post codes and rent-a-crowd

2016-03-19 Thread James
Postal codes have already been suggested a long time ago http://open.canada.ca/en/suggested-datasets/postal-code-database On Mar 16, 2016 8:22 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > ​Mojgan recently identified that data from the government of Canada’s open > data portal could be imported into OSM. > > I was

Re: [Talk-ca] bus stops, post codes and rent-a-crowd

2016-03-19 Thread James
uest at the moment helps. > > Thanks John > > On 16 March 2016 at 20:26, James wrote: > >> Postal codes have already been suggested a long time ago >> http://open.canada.ca/en/suggested-datasets/postal-code-database >> On Mar 16, 2016 8:22 PM, "john whelan&qu

Re: [Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa

2016-03-01 Thread James
I may not be a lawyerbut I agree with Tristan and John On Mar 1, 2016 6:47 PM, "John Marshall" wrote: > I agree Tristan > > John > > John Marshall > On Mar 1, 2016 18:43, "Tristan Anderson" > wrote: > >> Let's not be too hasty in removing large amounts of data, imported years >> ago and subs

Re: [Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa

2016-02-29 Thread James
There's also the problem: how do you know that the bus stop was from an import vs user created. On Feb 28, 2016 8:48 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > I think with the clause in the uploading terms that OSM can change the > license its very difficult to import anything as it is difficult to say to > Cit

Re: [Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa

2016-02-28 Thread James
d to updating these > points. > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 5:37 PM, James wrote: > >> Most of the STO bus stations were manually added by myself, not sure if >> there were any added/changed after the fact >> On Feb 28, 2016 4:02 PM, "john whelan" wrote: >

Re: [Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa

2016-02-28 Thread James
Most of the STO bus stations were manually added by myself, not sure if there were any added/changed after the fact On Feb 28, 2016 4:02 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > So it sounds like essentially we are saying the import wasn't discussed at > least as far as what the tags were to be used, I note th

Re: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data

2016-01-12 Thread James
If you need a HOT task manager. I am currently hosting it on tasks.osmcanada.ca. If you want to become a project manager just send me an email after you've logged in, I can set you as one. On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:53 PM, john whelan wrote: > The issue has come up in Ottawa as well, some street

Re: [Talk-ca] Cycling map vs Standard map

2015-11-03 Thread James
Any other layer apart from the standard layer takes more time to render(it's deliberately delayed) so if you have made changes recently that show up on the standard layer but not on the cycle map you might have to wait a couple days for the cycle layer to catch up (usually 2-3 days) On Tue, Nov 3,

[Talk-ca] CanVec+

2015-10-07 Thread James
I was just wondering if anyone knew that CanVec data is being phased out and replaced by CanVec+. I spoke with Marc LeMaire from NRCan and he said that they will not be offering .osm conversions of CanVec+ data, which means that we will have to convert the shapefiles ourselves. My question is has a

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-20 Thread James
I got an email back from the guy handling the Licensing. Hi James, thank-you for the email. I’m not sure I understand the compatibility grid. Is there a particular issue you are concerned about? Note: we have plans to adapt the Open Government License Canada but have not been able to do

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-19 Thread James
Email I got after I said I will be unable to use the data due to incompatible licensing: James, I’m going to forward this inquiry on to Robert Giggey. He is in charge of the Open Data program at the City. I must say, I am a little surprised that this interpretation is so restrictive. I

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-17 Thread James
What should I tell Stephen, to change the license for just OSM or in whole? On Aug 17, 2015 11:36 PM, "Paul Norman" wrote: > On 8/17/2015 8:20 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > Hi James, > > but I did receive approval from the city that we could import data from > dat

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