[Talk-ca] Early Bird Registration to State of the Map US

[Clifford Snow]

Registration to State of the Map US is now open. Tickets are available for
$90 until April 10th, then they will go up to the regular rate of $150.

Head over to http://StateOfTheMap.us and get your early bird ticket.

Interested in speaking at the conference, organizing workshops or a
scholarship to attend? Hold tight, more updates coming soon.

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Re: [Talk-ca] bus stops, post codes and rent-a-crowd

[James]

Postal codes have already been suggested a long time ago
http://open.canada.ca/en/suggested-datasets/postal-code-database
On Mar 16, 2016 8:22 PM, "john whelan"  wrote:

> ​Mojgan recently identified that data from the government of Canada’s open
> data portal could be imported into OSM.
>
> I was nattering to Treasury board today and they were aware of the
> interest in Post Code data.  Some of the Open Data crowd are making a push
> to try and get the Post Code data published through the Open Data portal.
>
> The more requests they have for the data set the easier it is to get it.
> So the rent-a-crowd bit is please go here:
> http://open.canada.ca/en/forms/suggest-dataset and drop a request in that
> post code data be made available.
>
> We also talked about bus stops and it sounds as if they are aware of the
> interest.  So perhaps a request for bus stops across Canada be made
> available in GTFS format at the same time.  This will need to be
> coordinated with the municipalities but since most are already supplying
> this data to Google I don’t see any technical problem.
>
> Note I’m not suggesting it is imported wholesale into OSM at this time but
> it would at least make it possible.
>
> Cheerio John​
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[Talk-ca] bus stops, post codes and rent-a-crowd

[john whelan]

​Mojgan recently identified that data from the government of Canada’s open
data portal could be imported into OSM.

I was nattering to Treasury board today and they were aware of the interest
in Post Code data.  Some of the Open Data crowd are making a push to try
and get the Post Code data published through the Open Data portal.

The more requests they have for the data set the easier it is to get it.
So the rent-a-crowd bit is please go here:
http://open.canada.ca/en/forms/suggest-dataset and drop a request in that
post code data be made available.

We also talked about bus stops and it sounds as if they are aware of the
interest.  So perhaps a request for bus stops across Canada be made
available in GTFS format at the same time.  This will need to be
coordinated with the municipalities but since most are already supplying
this data to Google I don’t see any technical problem.

Note I’m not suggesting it is imported wholesale into OSM at this time but
it would at least make it possible.

Cheerio John​
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Re: [Talk-ca] bus stops, post codes and rent-a-crowd

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 2016-03-16 08:34 PM, James wrote:
> I already added a request a year ago when UK released theirs, even
> emailed the PM candidates at the start of the elections. Can't help
> anymore unfortunately

You can add multiple comments/requests on the same thread. And given
that the government has reviewed and allowed some really odd ones,
they'll appreciate your cogent responses.

cheers,
 Stewart


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Re: [Talk-ca] what looks to be imports in North Vancouver - valid?

[Stewart C. Russell]

Hi Michael
> Hi,
> 
> I see a bunch of activities by user Marcott such as this (see comment in
> this and other changesets).
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37885113

Thanks for picking up on this.

> I also notice this activity breaks connections to existing trails etc.
> Also, trails are being imported raw, e.g. with 1m spacing between nodes,
> e.g. way too tight.

Ugh. If these are imports, they needed to use their own import account.
And, of course, not break stuff.

> But the main question is whether the referred to North Vancouver open
> data are known to be OK to use for OSM?

on the face of it, it *looks* like a straight lift of OGL-BC 2.0, so is
likely to be okay: http://clipol.org/licences/101?tab=licence_compatibility

(this seems to be a different licence from the DNV GEOWeb one, btw,
which was incompatible.)

cheers,
 Stewart


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Re: [Talk-ca] bus stops, post codes and rent-a-crowd

[James]

I already added a request a year ago when UK released theirs, even emailed
the PM candidates at the start of the elections. Can't help anymore
unfortunately
On Mar 16, 2016 8:31 PM, "john whelan"  wrote:

> I understand but there is an open data mailing list floating around and
> since the UK has opened up its Post Codes there is more pressure for the
> Canadian ones.  There is a concerted effort for post codes at the moment so
> every little straw helps.
>
> I was talking to the TB open data people this afternoon and the advice
> given was every added request at the moment helps.
>
> Thanks John
>
> On 16 March 2016 at 20:26, James  wrote:
>
>> Postal codes have already been suggested a long time ago
>> http://open.canada.ca/en/suggested-datasets/postal-code-database
>> On Mar 16, 2016 8:22 PM, "john whelan"  wrote:
>>
>>> ​Mojgan recently identified that data from the government of Canada’s
>>> open data portal could be imported into OSM.
>>>
>>> I was nattering to Treasury board today and they were aware of the
>>> interest in Post Code data.  Some of the Open Data crowd are making a push
>>> to try and get the Post Code data published through the Open Data portal.
>>>
>>> The more requests they have for the data set the easier it is to get
>>> it.  So the rent-a-crowd bit is please go here:
>>> http://open.canada.ca/en/forms/suggest-dataset and drop a request in
>>> that post code data be made available.
>>>
>>> We also talked about bus stops and it sounds as if they are aware of the
>>> interest.  So perhaps a request for bus stops across Canada be made
>>> available in GTFS format at the same time.  This will need to be
>>> coordinated with the municipalities but since most are already supplying
>>> this data to Google I don’t see any technical problem.
>>>
>>> Note I’m not suggesting it is imported wholesale into OSM at this time
>>> but it would at least make it possible.
>>>
>>> Cheerio John​
>>>
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Re: [Talk-ca] what looks to be imports in North Vancouver - valid?

[john whelan]

That would be my interpretation as well so there is hope for James's bus
stops in Ottawa.

Cheerio John

On 17 March 2016 at 12:33, Stewart C. Russell  wrote:

> Hi Michael
> > Hi,
> >
> > I see a bunch of activities by user Marcott such as this (see comment in
> > this and other changesets).
> >
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37885113
>
> Thanks for picking up on this.
>
> > I also notice this activity breaks connections to existing trails etc.
> > Also, trails are being imported raw, e.g. with 1m spacing between nodes,
> > e.g. way too tight.
>
> Ugh. If these are imports, they needed to use their own import account.
> And, of course, not break stuff.
>
> > But the main question is whether the referred to North Vancouver open
> > data are known to be OK to use for OSM?
>
> on the face of it, it *looks* like a straight lift of OGL-BC 2.0, so is
> likely to be okay:
> http://clipol.org/licences/101?tab=licence_compatibility
>
> (this seems to be a different licence from the DNV GEOWeb one, btw,
> which was incompatible.)
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
>
>
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[Talk-ca] WeeklyOSM 295

[Jinal Foflia]

The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue #295, is now available online in
English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the
OpenStreetMap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/archives/7128

*Among others:*

   - Remember the first few days of mapping OSM? User SM@Edit shares his
   first time experience with OpenStreetMap...
   - Wondering if there is a tool that can compare the standard OSM layer
   and Satellite imagery? Look in to try the tool...
   - A script by user baditaflorin that can help find duplicated nodes...
   - Read more about the humanitarian mapathon where two-hundred and twelve
   10 year old children from elementary school mapped to eradicate
malaria [image:
   :clap:]
   - Want to build your own offline OSMAND map? Look in to read more about
   it...

Cheers,

Jinal Foflia 
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[Talk-ca] what looks to be imports in North Vancouver - valid?

[Michael Barabanov]

Hi,

I see a bunch of activities by user Marcott such as this (see comment in 
this and other changesets).


http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/37885113
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Marcott/history#map=13/49.3481/-122.9853

I also notice this activity breaks connections to existing trails etc.
Also, trails are being imported raw, e.g. with 1m spacing between nodes, 
e.g. way too tight.


But the main question is whether the referred to North Vancouver open 
data are known to be OK to use for OSM?


Michael.


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