Re: [Talk-ca] Number of Mappers in Ottawa mail got munched

2009-10-30 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi all, In other news... I had a quick chat with John on the phone, so were upto speed now :) What's cool is that now since i have the canvec roads data, available as a .osm called TR_1760009_1_Road_segment_EXTRA_NODES0.osm (this file will be available in all future versions of the canvec-to-osm

Re: [Talk-ca] Number of Mappers in Ottawa mail got munched

2009-10-29 Thread john whelan
When you use people whose first interest isn't mapping in large numbers you need to keep it simple. I've used little old ladies in electric wheel chairs before now to take photographs of specific locations on the other side of the Atlantic. Worked fine but they do get confused easily so if someth

Re: [Talk-ca] Number of Mappers in Ottawa mail got munched

2009-10-29 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:32 PM, John Whelan wrote: > So it looks as if we'll just have to wait until the > mess gets straighten out. Do you have any idea what happens if we ALL take that attitude? There is no "them" in OSM, it's an "us" type community. > I found two on OSM, one wasn't active a

Re: [Talk-ca] Number of Mappers in Ottawa mail got munched

2009-10-29 Thread John Whelan
Thank you some meaningful numbers on mappers at least which was not immediately apparent.   So it looks as if we'll just have to wait until the mess gets straighten out. I found two on OSM, one wasn't active and the other, Marc Sensei, didn't respond.  My premise of just dropping in the Geobas

Re: [Talk-ca] Number of Mappers in Ottawa mail got munched

2009-10-29 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Richard Degelder wrote: > A quick look at the number of mappers that have contributed to the map of > Ottawa shows that there are a lot of individuals and that excludes the > rather minor contribution from the GeoBase import. > The source of this data can be foun

Re: [Talk-ca] Number of Mappers in Ottawa mail got munched

2009-10-29 Thread Richard Degelder
My initial mail seems to have been truncated and hopefully this will be better A quick look at the number of mappers that have contributed to the map of Ottawa shows that there are a lot of individuals and that excludes the rather minor contribution from the GeoBase import. At least some of the p