[Talk-ca] local OSM groups

2011-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, Matthias Meißer has made it easier to find a local OSM group. The German OSM community has had a map of local groups for quite a while. Matthias has extended that tool to work on a global scale. Here is how it works. 1) Local groups add a local group template to their wiki page. This

[Talk-ca] Simplifying CanVec imports

2011-02-11 Thread Samuel Longiaru
Good Morning Everyone, For the past couple of weeks I have been importing CanVec data into an area southwest of Kamloops. There was very little (if any) existing OSM data in the area. I've gotten into a bit of a rhythm, merging and stitching all of 92I07 and about half of 92I10 but started

[Talk-ca] Determining The Identity Of Features

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Bruce
Hi there, I've been doing a bit of mapping for the project in the UK, adding some roads and trails generally from my area of mid-Wales. We have a bit of a copyright problem with naming features in the UK that we have actually surveyed. You can see the question and the responses on this link: