[Talk-ca] Natural Landform key/values

2010-06-22 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi all, We wont see some of these feature until we start working on the data in the far north of Canada. But it would be good to clearly define what the terms mean. I started making the wiki pages, but it needs more work http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec:_Relief_and_landforms_%28FO%29 h

Re: [Talk-ca] user Guibone

2010-06-22 Thread Sam Vekemans
That's a cool photo image :) http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/crowd-sourced-world-map.ars Cheers, Sam On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM, john whelan wrote: >> How can I contact this user? > > You could use the OSM user web ma

Re: [Talk-ca] user Guibone

2010-06-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM, john whelan wrote: > How can I contact this user? You could use the OSM user web mail. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Guibone > They appear to have incorrectly named at least one local school. I've exchanged email with this user. This new user found OSM via

[Talk-ca] user Guibone

2010-06-22 Thread john whelan
How can I contact this user? They appear to have incorrectly named at least one local school. Thanks Cheerio John ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Approaching civic government for access to GIS data..

2010-06-22 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool, Then i'll hold off on the National Protected Areas file for i bit, and get the Aboriginal Lands more done. If anyone finds the admin areas, do share :) the ontario areas are available, i just havent converted it yet. Sam On 6/22/10, Tyler Gunn wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:19:32 -0700

Re: [Talk-ca] Approaching civic government for access to GIS data..

2010-06-22 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:19:32 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Cool, > ya, its easier to get it done now than in a few months from now. No doubt; once all the Geobase data floods in this wouldn't be quite so easy!!! > If you find the city boundaries file before i do, feel free to convert > it to OSM

Re: [Talk-ca] Approaching civic government for access to GIS data..

2010-06-22 Thread Sam Vekemans
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Tyler Gunn wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:10:32 -0700, Sam Vekemans > wrote: >> Maybe you can help with the Manitoba Protected areas & Aboriginal lands? >> >> Sorry, i do have a template, but the new licence just gives me a > headache. >> The fact that more da

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product almost...

2010-06-22 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool, and BTW, when creating the map legend (for end user maps), we can write anything we want so that the intended audience will understand. That the icon in the picture means this In any language /varriation. The OSM tags are all international standards (or as close as we can get) And so, '

Re: [Talk-ca] Approaching civic government for access to GIS data..

2010-06-22 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:10:32 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Maybe you can help with the Manitoba Protected areas & Aboriginal lands? > > Sorry, i do have a template, but the new licence just gives me a headache. > The fact that more data is available to us than we currently are > working with, is

Re: [Talk-ca] Approaching civic government for access to GIS data..

2010-06-22 Thread Sam Vekemans
My approach is, build it and they will come. Have you seen the CanMatrix geoTIFF & CanTopo PDFs? This digital paper map, includes more features that are not available in canvec, such as municiple boundaries (and in BC) it includes backroad logging roads. These PDFs can be freely traced. Anyway,

[Talk-ca] Approaching civic government for access to GIS data..

2010-06-22 Thread Tyler Gunn
Hello, I'm considering writing a letter to the civic government here in Winnipeg to ask for permission/access to their GIS data. The aerial imagery alone available on their website is a HUGE treasure-trove of information; 20cm 2009 aerial imagery!!! :) Has anyone ever approached the local gover

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product almost...

2010-06-22 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool, and BTW, when creating the map legend (for end user maps), we can write anything we want so that the intended audience will understand. That the icon in the picture means this In any language /varriation. The OSM tags are all international standards (or as close as we can get) And so, '

Re: [Talk-ca] I'd like to run something to add a French street name tag in Ottawa

2010-06-22 Thread john whelan
Could you add in Way=voie as well please, I missed it off the first time. My thoughts on using a view is you would still need to get the data in a field in the first place. This way allows manually editing afterwards for those names that have been entered in a different format but I'm using the w

Re: [Talk-ca] I'd like to run something to add a French street name tag in Ottawa

2010-06-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:54 PM, john whelan wrote: > Basically restricted to Ottawa (how?) > > If highway and no tag name:fr exists and second word in name is street > > then add tag name:fr first value is "rue + first word from name"  Note lower > case rue here. > > If that one works correctly t

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product almost...

2010-06-22 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Cool, I buy it! - tags using *center: Corrected to *centre for the release; Thanks, Daniel -Original Message- From: talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Richard Weait Sent: 22 juin 2010 10:29 To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [Ta

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product almost...

2010-06-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Emilie Laffray wrote: > On 22 June 2010 12:57, Bégin, Daniel wrote: [Adam said, OSM uses "centre" rather than "center" for most tags. ] >> Hi all, >> >> Does everyone agree with Adam's position?  It is still time to change that >> kind of things... > > It would

Re: [Talk-ca] I'd like to run something to add a French street name tag in Ottawa

2010-06-22 Thread john whelan
I'm more than happy for it to be called something other than bot. Fred or program perhaps? The objective here is to simply display the road name on the map in the language of choice. The background to the request is: Ottawa has two distinct languages. Francophones when talking among themselves

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product almost...

2010-06-22 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 22 June 2010 12:57, Bégin, Daniel wrote: > Hi all, > > Does everyone agree with Adam's position? It is still time to change that > kind of things... > > It would truly be more consistent indeed. Can't get tagwatch to confirm though. Emilie Laffray ___

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product almost...

2010-06-22 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Hi all, Does everyone agree with Adam's position? It is still time to change that kind of things... Daniel From: Adam Dunn [mailto:dunna...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 juin 2010 17:00 To: Bégin, Daniel Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm

Re: [Talk-ca] I'd like to run something to add a French street name tag in Ottawa

2010-06-22 Thread Gregory
On 21 June 2010 00:32, Richard Weait wrote: > > > I won't run it against the live data and change the data on the server > unless the community thinks this is a good idea. You and I think it > is; let's see if some others support the idea. > > Don't call it a bot. Bots are bad.* My questions are