Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education

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Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education

Ground floor is one storey, etc. I think its the same in the UK for OSM its the number of storeys not the name. In the UK a two storey house has a ground floor and a first floor. In Canada its normally counted ground is the first floor and the storey above is the second. I have seen office bloc

Re: [Talk-ca] Preferred phone number format

Hi Stewart, Thanks for your comment. I'm relatively new to OSM, so I don't have all the history, so I appreciate you and others jumping in. I saw the discussion page when I started working on this.  However, it is from 2012, so I'm not clear if this represents current state or not. People ar

Re: [Talk-ca] Preferred phone number format

On 2018-02-05 05:17 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote: > > use the letters instead of numbers "+1-555-GOT-BEER" I'd suggest mapping these to the numbers BUT international phone pads have a superset of what we use here (7 has Q and 9 has Z) and older phones may not be consistent with what we assume now. In

Re: [Talk-ca] Preferred phone number format

On 2018-02-05 04:44 PM, Matthew Darwin wrote: > I don't know why people use phone=* vs contact:phone=* Because it's the default in most editors, and it's shorter. I'd prefer it over contact:phone, because that's a needless namespace. Also, this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:con

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education

On 2018-02-02 06:06 PM, john whelan wrote: > > It would be useful if someone could produce a sample in R that takes a > .osm file and counts the buildings. R might be rather overkill: grep "k='building'" file.osm | wc -l One might have to do some clever trickery around buildings that are r

Re: [Talk-ca] using image recognition to create building foot prints.

On 2018-02-02 11:01 AM, Gravel, Pierre (NRCan/RNCan) wrote: > > I take the opportunity to ask you if you accept to give us a feedback on > these footprints before the official launch. > > If yes, It will be my pleasure to provide a pre-production data for > those who want to check them. > > It s

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education

On 2018-01-30 10:49 AM, Jonathan Brown wrote: > > Does anyone know of OSM expertise that we could tap into for a mapathon > event in the Durham Region? Thanks. Well, us Toronto mappers aren't *that* far away. Let us know dates and scope. Stewart (was travelling, hence late reply)