Re: [Talk-ca] Some french translation advice

2012-01-22 Thread Jonathan Crowe
In practice, people are much more likely to use Highway 59 rather than Provincial Trunk Highway 59. Even if the latter is the formally correct name, it's extremely cumbersome and stilted; can you imagine it in text-to-speech driving directions? For French names of Manitoba highways, I'd consider

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] OSM Hack Weekend in Washington, DC

2012-01-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Based on the success, and incredible fun of the OSM Hacking Weekends in London, a bunch of OSMers in the US have decided to ruthlessly steal the idea and try running one ourselves. US Community? Okay, I can't resist

[Talk-ca] Canadian-specific boundary tweaks for MkGMap

2012-01-22 Thread SAMUEL LONGIARU
Good Afternoon Everyone, I've been lurking on the MkGMap developers list for several months now and see that recently, they have solved some major issues regarding finding streets when OSM is imported for use on Garmin GPS's... without the use of MapSource!  They are now moving on to the

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian-specific boundary tweaks for MkGMap

2012-01-22 Thread Paul Norman
The administrative boundaries in the lower mainland are not complete. I've been looking for a source for the rest of them, but haven't found one. From: SAMUEL LONGIARU [mailto:longi...@shaw.ca] Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 1:42 PM To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca]

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian-specific boundary tweaks for MkGMap

2012-01-22 Thread Samuel Longiaru
Ah... well that could be the issue. I was not aware of that. I thought those were established a while ago through a GeoBase import. Thanks. Sam -Original Message- From: Paul Norman penor...@mac.com To: 'SAMUEL LONGIARU' longi...@shaw.ca, talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: RE:

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian-specific boundary tweaks for MkGMap

2012-01-22 Thread Paul Norman
Surrey and Township of Langley borders were imported by me, which also got all of the City of Langley and White Rock borders in at the same time. I've mapped the New West border from street signs and local knowledge. Another user got the north shore and some of the tri-cities area. Burnaby,