Re: [Talk-ca] Building Footprint Upload to OSM

2018-03-08 Thread john whelan
>> In the past the local variants of the OGL Canada have varied widely >> and have in some cases included additional terms that have made them >> incompatible with the ODbL and in some instances non-open. For this >> reason we are not making a blanket statement on other such localised >> versions

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread john whelan
I think Matthew or James are the people to talk to. I suspect it might take them an hour or so which means there is an excellent chance of it being made available before March 29th. Cheerio John On 8 Mar 2018 2:04 pm, "Jonathan Brown" wrote: > If we could clone the

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread john whelan
The most useful thing you could do is add tags to the existing buildings. Levels, is it residential, commercial etc. I take it you've looked at http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/91 and found it wasn't what you were after? The area that is tiled can be set up in another project. What do you

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread Jonathan Brown
If we could clone the http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/91 so that it could be used to tag information for existing buildings in the regions of Durham, Northumberland and Niagara Falls, then that would be great. Can that be done in time for March 29? Jonathan On 8 March 2018 at 10:40,

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread James
do you have a geojson extent of the area you want to cover? On Mar 8, 2018 2:06 PM, "Jonathan Brown" wrote: > If we could clone the http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/91 so that it > could be used to tag information for existing buildings in the regions of > Durham,

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread Jonathan Brown
do you have a geojson extent of the area you want to cover? - Rob Halko can answer that question for Durham Region, the priority area for March 29. I’ll need to ask the other regions. Jonathan   ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread James
Doesnt have to be precise, I just dont know those places. On Mar 8, 2018 2:28 PM, "Jonathan Brown" wrote: > do you have a geojson extent of the area you want to cover? > > > > - > > > > Rob Halko can answer that question for Durham Region, the priority area > for March

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread Jonathan Brown
Excellent. The OSM community’s support is much appreciated. Jonathan From: john whelan Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2018 2:16 PM To: Jonathan Brown Cc: Matthew Darwin; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap; Rob Halko; Brock Baker ; Alasia, Alessandro (STATCAN) Subject: RE: [Talk-ca]

Re: [Talk-ca] Geojson for areas covered by mapathon event

2018-03-08 Thread Jonathan Brown
Rob Halko will know if they have geojson for Durham Region area. I’ll need to find out for Niagara and Northumberland. Jonathan From: James Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2018 2:18 PM To: Jonathan Brown Cc: john whelan; Rob Halko; Brock Baker ; Alasia, Alessandro (STATCAN);

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread Tim Elrick
Hi Jonathan & Rob, As John mentioned task #91, the one that we set up last, and we are about to set up another one for our next mapathon on March 20th (on Khairpur in Pakistan though), I am happy to help out too. For preparing the areas of interest (aoi) the project manager needs either a

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread James
I'll have a project up by tomorrow. On Mar 8, 2018 8:03 PM, "Tim Elrick" wrote: > Hi Jonathan & Rob, > > As John mentioned task #91, the one that we set up last, and we are about > to set up another one for our next mapathon on March 20th (on Khairpur in > Pakistan though), I am

Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup of addr:country, addr:province, addr:state

2018-03-08 Thread Matthew Darwin
So I've tidied up the addr:province/state tags, now using only addr:province, leaving anything that would be generally considered "correct" either spelt out in full or using English provincial abbreviation as you might use in a mailing address. Also left "Quebec" (no accent). I would rather

Re: [Talk-ca] Emergency Request for Tasking Manager Trainer

2018-03-08 Thread Jonathan Brown
Thanks, Matthew. We are finalizing the mapping task on a conference call this afternoon at 3 pm if you have time to join in. At the Toronto OSM Meetup they recommended using one of the HOT Tasking Manager tasks. I looked at this one and found the “Project Specific Notes” helpful: