[Talk-ca] Odd use for OSM data...
Here is an odd use for Open Street Map data... One man in the UK wanted to know What are the most popular names for pubs in the United Kingdom?. Using Open Street Map data he could find that out and he explains how he did that here : http://blog.mongodb.org/post/56876800071/the-most-popular-pub-names . For those not willing to read the entire article here is the answer he found: 1. The Red Lion 2. The Royal Oak 3. The Crown 4. The White Hart 5. The White Horse The process described could be easily adapted to any repeating information anywhere, like most popular street name in Canada or... ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Odd use for OSM data...
Neat! Using only a rectangular bounding box probably wouldn't work that well for Canada, though. Anybody know how to use a border relation with Overpass in order to extract only data from Canada/a province/a town? Harald. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Colin McGregor colin.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Here is an odd use for Open Street Map data... One man in the UK wanted to know What are the most popular names for pubs in the United Kingdom?. Using Open Street Map data he could find that out and he explains how he did that here : http://blog.mongodb.org/post/56876800071/the-most-popular-pub-names . For those not willing to read the entire article here is the answer he found: 1. The Red Lion 2. The Royal Oak 3. The Crown 4. The White Hart 5. The White Horse The process described could be easily adapted to any repeating information anywhere, like most popular street name in Canada or... ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! Key-ID: 0x34cb93972f186565 ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Ninth OpenStreetMap birthday: Toronto
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I should have included the date. Saturday, 10 August 2013, along with the other official birthday events. :-) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_9th_Anniversary_Birthday_party I am in Windsor and I'll be having my exams during those days and they will end on August 16, 2013. So I wont be able to attend it. My Bad Luck :-/ Anyway I'll try to attend the next events. Enjoy the Birthday of OpenStreetMap. -- Parveen Arora www.parveenarora.in ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
