Re: [Talk-ca] FW: Sharing Your Data on OpenStreetMap - It's All About Data - Safe Software Blog

2010-03-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Hi guys, here is excellent news for Openstreetmap community. Main data providers have now a tool to create something like the future Canvec.osm product - If they have the interest and the proper licence!

Re: [Talk-ca] Ontario Provincial Parks : 6 categories

2010-03-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm taking a look at the Ontario Provincial Parks dataset, Link? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-ca] State of the Map 2010

2010-03-15 Thread Richard Weait
You should go. Really. It'll be fun and informative. http://stateofthemap.org/ It's hard to explain the benefit of attending to somebody who hasn't attended a similar conference before. First, know that the presentations will be super; informative, thought-provoking, funny, challenging,

Re: [Talk-ca] Russia

2010-03-12 Thread Richard Weait
I've also sent this note to the editor of the two ways in question. Dear Aleksandr, A couple of your edits drew some attention on the talk-ca mailing list[1], Please feel free to join us there. It appears that other countries with boundary relations are using a boundary based on a fixed

Re: [Talk-ca] Highways in Yukon

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Tim Francois sk1pp...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Just wanted to gauge opinion before I change anything: I'm currently working on the Dempster highway with a tracklog I created in the summer, hoping to extend it further north into NWT. The road connecting to the

Re: [Talk-ca] Highways in Yukon

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:30 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Tim Francois sk1pp...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I'm currently working on the Dempster highway with a tracklog I created in the summer, hoping to extend it further north into NWT. The road connecting

[Talk-ca] Fwd: Fwd: [gvcc-members] Google Goes Bike with Directions

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Weait
oops. To the lists, too. -- Forwarded message -- On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: The routing on bikemap.net is just showing you routes that people have added. http://www.cyclestreets.net/ is only available for the UK, but actually

Re: [Talk-ca] PR stuff Ottawa Opendata Sat 24th April

2010-03-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:25 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: http://opendataottawa.ca/  It's at City Hall and it looks like the press will be present. It's local so I could pop down.  However having just me without a laptop, or banner probably wouldn't do much good.  Any

Re: [Talk-ca] Google Streetview

2010-03-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:17 PM, si...@mungewell.org wrote: Geobase should have all of the Canadian street names, They don't. Not yet. The Stat Can data has many, but not all. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-ca] Saskatchewan disappeared?

2010-03-01 Thread Richard Weait
The SK at z4 and Saskatchewan at z5,6,7,8,etc. have disappeared. Manitoba and Alberta appear to be fine. I took a quick look at the SK border relations in the corners. Anybody notice when this happened or have a suggestion as to the cause (and fix?)

Re: [Talk-ca] What Google Copying?

2010-03-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:45 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps we can find this vreimer another hobby. We've tried to reach vreimer and had no luck. I've referred vreimer to the data working group for discussion with this thread for reference. I'll update this thread on the DWG's

[Talk-ca] State of the Map 2010 registration now open

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Weait
early bird price! http://stateofthemap.org/register-now You should go. Why? - intense weekend+ of OSM goodness. - more OSMers in one room that you have seen before. - rub elbows with famous OSMers. - the learning never stops. - you can't flamewar when you've met in person. - tons of social

Re: [Talk-ca] More Google Copying

2010-02-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Yup, i just sent off a nice message.  Hopefully it will be recieved. I'll let you know if i get a responce back. Sam V. did you hear back from vreimer and these unusual edits? Adam D. are you convinced this

Re: [Talk-ca] More Google Copying

2010-02-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: I havent yet heard back from the user, maybe someone else wants to give it a try? I sent this via site mail: Dear vreimer, I see that you've been doing some edits in Manitoba and BC among other places. Please

Re: [Talk-ca] looking for specific imports

2010-02-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Jean Robertson jeanro...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am looking to import or have imported CanVec data NTS tiles 031G16 and 031G9 How do I do this? According to the Google Docs page, neither of these have been done. Sorry for the newby questions... Dear

Re: [Talk-ca] Transient roads

2010-02-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:31 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, I know we talked about this before, but I can't find an answer in my old email. I'm mapping a road that only exists during the winter months. How do I tag it? Access is limited by season, but access tags seem to be

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec mep feature 1150012 10- Coastal w ater - (Eau côtière) = Ocean - ( Océa n )

2010-02-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Hi, Concerning Intermittent water, how could we make sure to have it  rendered through mapnik and osmarender? Dear Daniel, This question appears in IRC and the talk list every once in a while. The short

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec mep feature 1150012 10- Coastal w ater - (Eau côtière) = Ocean - ( Océa n )

2010-02-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Yves Moisan yves.moi...@boreal-is.com wrote: I want to say it out loud on this list : one of the major data contributors to OSM for Québec data is .. a great Dutch !  I want to thank you for all the OSM work you've been doing for the last two years I've known

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Robert Shand b...@shand.org.uk wrote: Hello everyone, I've been looking in the PEI address details lately [ ... ] Taking all of the above into account, I propose to the community that 1) Plenty of cool screenshots of the current OSM map are taken showing the

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Robert Shand b...@shand.org.uk wrote: Peter is well aware of the issues, - and suggested the removal to Michel (who was the original uploader) when he became aware of the upload. I'll work on getting the current data removed this weekend. I'm working on

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Robert Shand b...@shand.org.uk wrote: On 2010-02-11, at 10:26 AM, Sam Vekemans wrote: I also like Franks idea of hosting tiles rendered, so an example can be shown. (and Daniel just mentioned that the address range data will be available) Richard is

Re: [Talk-ca] Import of large features in Canvec

2010-01-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org wrote: Hi all, Today I have (finally) worked on large features in Canvec data (forests, water, etc.), and I have come up with a method how to deal with them. Bravo! Looks great.

Re: [Talk-ca] Besoin de trace GPS / sondage sur place

2010-01-17 Thread Richard Weait
2010/1/17 Nakor nakor...@gmail.com:   Bonjour, Je faisais un peu de nettoyage et je suis tombé sur des échangeurs en double au Nord de Montréal ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.73013lon=-73.51166zoom=16 ). Le problème ici est que l'imagerie Yahoo date d'avant la construction des

Re: [Talk-ca] Import mess in southern Québec

2010-01-16 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, The potential for access to Quebec imagery is nice, if the provider and license will permit. The best place for that and similar imagery would be OpenAerialMap.org[1], which poses a problem, because OAM is still rebooting itself. OAM in the first incarnation found that it was flooded

Re: [Talk-ca] Import mess in southern Québec

2010-01-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Nicolas Gignac gignac...@hotmail.com wrote: Allo, Si vous voulez des données gratuites pour le Québec pour améliorer OSM, voir ici : http://www.mrnf.gouv.qc.ca/territoire/portrait/portrait-donnees-mille.jsp If you want free data for the province of Quebec to

[Talk-ca] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Major improvements to MapOSMatic

2010-01-04 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, If you haven't seen MapOSMatic before, you really want to see it now. It now works for the whole World, not just Europe. MapOSMatic lets you select a city, and print a nice OSM-based map of that city, with a grid and street index. Check the announcement below for details. I tried a

[Talk-ca] Seeking osm user marse020

2009-12-28 Thread Richard Weait
marse020, are you here? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Seeking osm user marse020

2009-12-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: marse020, are you here? Also, is Bob Shand here? You are mapping in PEI, aren't you? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-ca] Olympic Lane / Voie Olympique

2009-12-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: For those wondering what this is about, Vancouver is designating certain traffic lanes for official Olympic vehicles (public transit buses, athlete transportation, media transportation, etc). Other lanes on the same street

[Talk-ca] State of the Map 2010

2009-12-16 Thread Richard Weait
The date and location of the next State of the Map conference has been announced. If you enjoy OSM you will really enjoy spending a full weekend with many of the bright lights in OSM from around the World. Last year included presentations, workshops and many opportunities to meet in small groups

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM

2009-12-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: In addition to what Frank said, I would also like to point out that sac_scale [1] can be useful for hiking trails. If you happen to be into mountain biking, the group of mtb: tags are also useful [2]. I'm also in favour of

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian Mapping Lanes Guidelines

2009-12-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Adam Dunn dunna...@gmail.com wrote: There is an issue that I noticed in the Canadian mapping guidelines recently, though it appears it has been on the wiki for a while now. Reading the guidelines for the lanes key [1] and comparing it to the Canada mapping

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import in Montréal with ? nam es

2009-12-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin pierre-...@pierlux.com wrote: Hi, I've been a little disconnected about the whole import process. Tonight I've seen CanVec streets appear in my neighboorhood with odd tags such as:

[Talk-ca] Toronto OSM dinner and discussion

2009-12-09 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, Want to meet with other mappers and enjoy some snacks and beverages? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Christmas_Party_2009 ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto aerial imagery

2009-11-09 Thread Richard Weait
I had a look at the Toronto address point data yesterday. This shape file is NAD27 as well. When converted with shp-to-osm the location was off by about 100m when compared to OSM road data. When converted to EPSG:4326 with ogr2ogr, then run through shp-to-osm, the data is closer, but still

Re: [Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

2009-11-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: hi All, It looks like the City of Toronto just joined in the cool-club :-) Thanks to user:Aude who looks to be a wikipedian... maybe

[Talk-ca] Waterloo Ontario OSM meetup

2009-11-03 Thread Richard Weait
Waterloo Ontario OSM Meetup on Wednesday 11 November 2009. New and experienced OSM contributors welcome. http://www.meetup.com/Waterloo-OSM/ ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Users in Ottawa and Geobase

2009-10-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:19 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: My objective at the moment is to get something sane that can be used by various groups in the city with GPS devices to tag trees, heritage buildings

Re: [Talk-ca] Ftp site for Canvec product (.osm)

2009-10-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Hi folks, The ftp site is now available to the osm community. There is no file available yet but there will be soon as the community start to upload their Canvec .osm files. The link in the last email was

Re: [Talk-ca] Users in Ottawa and Geobase

2009-10-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:19 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: My objective at the moment is to get something sane that can be used by various groups in the city with GPS devices to tag trees, heritage buildings etc. Super. You have groups of interested people, motivated and

Re: [Talk-ca] The great UUID debate (Was Re: 092G area)

2009-10-14 Thread Richard Weait
Sam removed that context, then spun this new thread and widened distribution! Here's some context, Sam thinks uuids are uninteresting and not useful in imported data. Michael, below, thinks uuids are useful. Now the rest of the conversation in context. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Michael

Re: [Talk-ca] Proposed features/soccer field - OpenStreetMap

2009-10-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Yves Moisan yves.moi...@boreal-is.com wrote: Somebody is doing some nice mapping around Sherbrooke! :-) I like the current rendering of the multi-use fields.  I understood the combinations immediately. The current fields are tagged as leisure=playground

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec2osm v0.9.1 sample areas ready

2009-09-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm happy to report that all there are now a bunch of areas available to load and copy over to OSM ... and check for errors. Just having a look at Sam's converted files for 092o06 (Anvil Mountain) I see

Re: [Talk-ca] Trans Canada Trail relation

2009-09-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Adam Glauser adamglau...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I was cleaning up some areas where the TCT shares its path with roads and other existing trails (here http://osm.org/go/ZXnePd73--, if you are interested). It appears that there used to be a relation,

Re: [Talk-ca] TransLink mapping party Vancouver?

2009-09-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:52 PM, si...@mungewell.org wrote: Belay that request.  I talked to someone last night who said that he had the geocoded bus stop locations (with the stop numbers).  He is going to get in touch with Carson and open-source the data. Good news, anyone up for

Re: [Talk-ca] Incorrect latitude longitude St. John's NL Canada

2009-09-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:29 PM, John Townsendapplejak_2...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm not a member of the wiki.openstreetmap.org but there is a glaring error at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/St._John's_Newfoundland which is the following: St. John's is a City in Newfoundland and Labrador

Re: [Talk-ca] Sam's Status Update of all goings on OSM related :-)

2009-09-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Sam Vekemansacrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, a quick update. should be complete, if anyone has idea's feel free to comment. :-) Dear Sam, Comment? Okay. I think your list is not quick. ;-) It is interesting to see what you have on your to-do list.

[Talk-ca] solution! (?) automated block-face addressing from GeoBase / statcan data

2009-09-09 Thread Richard Weait
Dear Team Canada, ;-) So we have some addressing data in NRN and more after running roadmatcher. Until now we have been ignoring that data and looking to take care of it later as it seemed hard to automate properly. balrog-k1n on #osm IRC has written some code that creates block face

Re: [Talk-ca] address:block - brain storming

2009-09-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Sam Vekemansacrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Richard, cc:talk-ca, As i was comparing our 'superior quality map' i can show you an example of address:block you can see on the Google maps you can see Empress Avenue and the '2500' and also Shawnigan Lake

Re: [Talk-ca] address:block - brain storming

2009-09-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Sam Vekemansacrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Sam Vekemansacrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: With rounding ?!?!?!  Why round the numbers off?  Put

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Vancouver Island Meetup group

2009-09-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Sam Vekemansacrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Just to let you know i created a meetup.com group. So far, just after a few hours, 3 joined the group, there are lots of people around here interested in the topics that i put it under. I still need

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase related fixes needed in Mapnik and Maplint

2009-08-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Pierre-Luc Beaudoinpierre-...@pierlux.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 14:18 +0200, Lennard wrote: Mapnik doesn't even _get_ to see the geobase:* tags, and even if it had access to them, wouldn't do anything with those. It only repeats the labels and signs

[Talk-ca] Hey, look! State / Prov borders!

2009-08-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Lennardl...@xs4all.nl wrote: Richard Weait wrote: I think the provincial / state borders will continue to be yucky on the main map until mapnik supports rendering different style sheets As you guys in the North Americas might will probably already have

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] [Announcement] Support added for route waypoints in YOURS

2009-08-25 Thread Richard Weait
Congratulations, Lambertus, on the added functionality of your wonderful routing service using OpenStreetMap data. Last time I looked at this, you were only routing in Europe. So thank you for adding Canada and USA to your service. To celebrate, I asked for a route From: Museum of Modern Art,

[Talk-ca] Fwd: REMINDER: Server Down Time - 22nd to 23rd August 2009

2009-08-21 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, Remember that the servers will be down this weekend for equipment changes at our host location at UCL. So, save early and often if you have a couple of last edits to submit! ;-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrli...@googlemail.com

Re: [Talk-ca] NTS sheet to lat/lon converter

2009-08-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Frank Stegginkstegg...@steggink.org wrote: Hi, Because it is not obvious to everyone what the extent of the NTS sheets is, I've created a little service which converts them to lat/lon coordinates. It is also possible to show them directly as a box in

[Talk-ca] Encourage foundation candidates to self-govern

2009-08-19 Thread Richard Weait
The Foundation board should have no more than one candidate from each company in my opinion. http://weait.com/content/osmf-candidate-recall ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Can-Amera border, states and provinces.

2009-08-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:36 PM, James Ewenve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Richard Weaitrich...@weait.com wrote: I think the provincial / state borders will continue to be yucky on the main map until mapnik supports rendering different style sheets per region /

[Talk-ca] OSM Birthday Party - Toronto

2009-08-14 Thread Richard Weait
The OpenStreetMap project will celebrate it's fifth birthday on Saturday 22, August 2009 and you are welcome to help celebrate! We can all agree that OSM is very mature for a five year-old, so bring no gifts. Hopefully there will be no tantrums. ;-) I'm co-hosting an OSM birthday party

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk-fr] Fwd: How to tag carr iage porch or porte cochère

2009-08-11 Thread Richard Weait
2009/8/11 Pierre-Luc Beaudoin pierre-...@pierlux.com: On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 17:25 +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote: Dans le cas exprimé par Pierre-Luc, on aurait un barrier = gate à l'extrémité fermée par une porte, donnant surement dans une rue. Les gates sont souvent que de simples porte de fer

[Talk-ca] Fwd: [OSM-talk] National websites

2009-08-03 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, A question from the main talk list re: OpenStreetMap.ca Is the domain holder here? See question below. -- Forwarded message -- From: Vincent MEURISSE osm-t...@meurisse.org Date: Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Nationnal websites To:

Re: [Talk-ca] which tags in canvec? was: canvec2osm update (an easy question this time)

2009-06-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 22:56 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: [ ... a lot of stuff ... ] Anyway, i uploaded a couple sample features to Port Renfrew, BC http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/163132 What tags should be removed??... but more importantly, WHY.. Hi Sam (and list), Others

[Talk-ca] SotM: State of Canada

2009-06-15 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, I'll be at SotM and am scheduled to give a State of the Canadian map talk as I did last year. It's a ten-minute time slot so I'll have to speak quickly. ;-) The audience is international and packed with the big names in OSM. I'll address the W5 of OSM in Canada. State of the map in

Re: [Talk-ca] cleaning up after the GeoBase import

2009-06-15 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, I'm surprised by the panic and outrage I'm hearing in this thread. I'm not aware of anybody creating an OSM-CA branch of tagging that is incompatible with community standards. The conversations I've been involved in have been aimed at making the very best interpretation of the

Re: [Talk-ca] How to tag Bixi stations?

2009-06-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 16:42 -0400, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: Hi, As Bixi [1] is gaining on popularity, I think we should add them to the map! But how do you tag such a thing? I wonder what Velib used in Paris... I am open to suggestions! I commented on a Facebook post of Bixi to

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase data vs. OSM data on import

2009-06-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 00:09 -0700, Austin Henry wrote: Hi all, I'm working on importing (most of) the 082E tile, Kelowna, Osoyoos, Grand Forks and the part of the import process where you match roads in RoadMatcher is taking ages, Odd. I've never seen RoadMatcher take more than about a

Re: [Talk-ca] 092g07 imported and uploaded

2009-06-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 11:08 +0100, SteveC wrote: Stupid question, you guys importing addressing too? The Canadian government data does not include addressing information for all jurisdictions. This area (British Columbia) has no addressing available[1]. The earlier import in Alberta does

Re: [Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-05-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 22:31 -0400, Ben Konrath wrote: Ok, I did some more poking around and it seems that the land border with the US is really borked. For BC and Alberta, there are 3 - 4 different border lines with the US. I'm willing to do the work required to clean this up by deleting the

Re: [Talk-ca] Adding Trans Canada Trail in Cranbrook Kimberley

2009-05-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 13:45 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: from http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/acrosscanadatrails/diary/6419 Adding Trans Canada Trail in Cranbrook Kimberley Im adding more traces from Tracks that i did back in summer 2007, as well as from the tracks from the tctrail.ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Data polution

2009-05-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:10 -0400, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: Hi, I just saw that the tiles are being rerendered with a red line (probably a long long building) going from Wien (Austria) to somewhere North West of Trois-Rivières.

Re: [Talk-ca] 030M12 complete geobase roads area discussion

2009-05-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 23:00 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: Hi all, It is interesting to see the note, as it appears that .. Multiple mappers decide to delete data as the import was progressing I'm very interested to learn just what happened? Hopefully we can learn from this, and somehow

[Talk-ca] Meeting GeoBase

2009-05-14 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, I spoke to the folks at GeoBase[1] today. I joined them for their Innovation Day, in Sherbrooke, Quebec and we talked about OSM, the Canadian import and their interest in OSM in the future. I'll have more on what we discussed and what I learned over the next week or two. It was a

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec entity value definition tags to use

2009-05-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 01:02 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: Hi all, a quick question. (kind of) I think that having the tags that clearly define what the entity is; and how the entity is used in the source data, is something that needs to be kept. Here's why, it tells the user exactly what

[Talk-ca] Toronto Mapping party this Sunday 03 May 2009

2009-04-29 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, How about a spur of the moment mapping party in Toronto this Sunday? I know! What a great idea! And the weather promises to be perfect too. The goal is to Clean up the aerial-mapped area in Bayview Village by getting the rest of the street names, local POIs including parks, schools

[Talk-ca] [Fwd: [OSM-talk] IMPORTANT - OSM API upgrade - Read Only access mode from 09:00 UTC Fri 17th April]

2009-04-16 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, Below is the official announcement from the OpenStreetMap Foundation reminding us of temporary OSM service reductions this weekend. These service reductions are required for the installation of the shiny new OSM database server[1] and the API upgrade to version 0.6. We'll all enjoy a

Re: [Talk-ca] Issues in Winnipeg

2009-04-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 10:28 -0500, Sam Dyck wrote: Hi [ ... ] What do I do? Replied off-line. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 04:39 -0500, Joseph Jon Booker wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:54:12 -0500 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Nicholas Vetrovec nickvet...@yahoo.comwrote: Posted on the US Page to help coordinate US Interstate relations.

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 10:38 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: network=us_i_2 # Interstate (2 digit) us_i_3 for 3 digit network=us_us_2 # US Route us_us_3 for 3 digit network=us_ny # NY State Route network=us_ny_county # That looks great to me, except that us_i_2 vs us_i_3 seems like tagging

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 13:23 -0500, Joseph Jon Booker wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:39:45 -0700 Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.com wrote: 2 relations are easier. adding role to thousands of members is a pain. and we need to split relations with API 0.6 anyway So how do we handle the

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 20:26 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org writes: Why make this more complicated than it has to be? Leave the names on the underlying way, not the relations; leave the refs on the relations, not the underlying ways. Then it's a matter of

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] Interstate Highways Relations List

2009-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 16:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Apollinaris Schoell wrote: It contains all you need to pick the correct sign. But you need the whole knowledge about signs for all states, county ... as an example California uses different signs for US routes but the same for

[Talk-ca] Is Edmonton broken? (NW)

2009-04-06 Thread Richard Weait
Where does Edmonton divide between NE / NW / SE / SW ? The _vast_ majority of the roads I see on our map are listed as something Street NW, Surely the division should be something lose to equal quarters, No? Would a Northern Alberta expert please have a look at this?

Re: [Talk-ca] silly borders

2009-03-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 10:00 -0600, James Ewen wrote: The end result, is that I would concur that the GeoBase borders are much closer to the real world location than the manually input border, or the USGS imports. So, now we need to clean up the erroneous data. The county outlines in the

Re: [Talk-ca] Changing admin level (provinces) to render like US states

2009-03-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 12:02 -0600, James Ewen wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: It still looks like the provincial borders should be changed so that its visable from a few more zoom levels. You can't force the renders to do

Re: [Talk-ca] An exploration of the possibility of an OSM - GeoBase partnership

2009-03-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 16:25 -0400, Mepham, Michael wrote: At the last GeoBase Steering Committee meeting we discussed ideas on how GeoBase and Open StreetMap could work together to each others advantage. We believe that each group has its strengths and that by supporting each other we can

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec/Geobase point feature - Render

2009-03-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 20:05 -0400, Michel Gilbert wrote: 2009/3/23 Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com I have not yet received the answer from NRCan about if the location of the node is EXACTLY where the building actually is, or is it just shown in the

Re: [Talk-ca] Address ranges

2009-03-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 19:55 -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote: On 22 Mar 2009 at 12:02 Steve Singer ssinger...@sympatico.ca wrote about Re: [Talk-ca] Address ranges[...] Part of me prefers a scheme that adds address tags directly to the nodes that make up the road. The downside of that is[...]

[Talk-ca] [Fwd: Re: Address ranges]

2009-03-21 Thread Richard Weait
Oh, how silly. I responded to Steve alone, rather than the list. Here you go. Forwarded Message From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com To: Steve Singer ssinger...@sympatico.ca Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Address ranges Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:00:31 -0400 On Sat, 2009-03-21

[Talk-ca] FW: Road Network File license conflict?

2009-03-04 Thread Richard Weait
Grant removed for space] -Original Message- From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com] Sent: February 27, 2009 5:12 PM To: infost...@statcan.ca Subject: Road Network File license conflict? Dear Statcan, I'm a contributor to OpenStreetMap, an international project to provide

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats-Can licensing

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:26 -0500, Richard Degelder wrote: With the license for Stats-Can we are not going to be able to use any of their data. Although OSM is non-commercial there is no way we can ensure that any future user will always be non-commercial as well. Dear Richard, From your

Re: [Talk-ca] Reminder: Toronto, ON mapping party - Jan 31st.

2009-01-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 13:36 -0800, SteveC wrote: I can't make it but just a note that this is superb it's happening It's a great opportunity to test the new tags for snowbank=huge and hasn't_seen_natural_light_since=September ___ Talk-ca mailing

Re: [Talk-ca] road names

2009-01-12 Thread Richard Weait
I think that we should avoid semi-colon concatenation where ever we can avoid it. How about name, for the most common name? name=varies by location name:fr=French name:en=English name:iu=Inuktitut name:mow=Mohawk etc. Are not parts of Ontario and New Brunswick predominantly francophone? S

Re: [Talk-ca] About OpenStreetMap

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Weait
On 6 Jan 2009, at 18:33, Nyaladzani Nkhwanana wrote: Hi Steve, My name is Nyaladzani Nkhwanana, a Masters student at the university of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. I am currently undertaking a research (Thesis) on assessing credibility on volunteered geographic

Re: [Talk-ca] Deleting Ways

2008-12-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 22:52 -0500, Michel Gilbert wrote: The new file with boundaries at 500 nodes is ready for an upload. But first I have to delete the current ones. Dear Michel, Bravo. The first run of the border import is a wonderful improvement, even if imperfect. Thank you for doing

Re: [Talk-ca] mp2osm updating Wiki page

2008-12-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 14:20 -0800, Sam Vekemans wrote: A thumbtack: Because Ibycus map is now almost a year old, there is more detailed data available.. ie house numbers for provinces. Do we wait for Ibycus to produce a whole new mapset? ... or go the otherway and import the data from each

[Talk-ca] OSM, the Foundation and GeoBase data

2008-07-24 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, There has been a lot of discussion on the talk-ca list recently about the GeoBase data. The GeoBase data was one topic of the most recent OSM Foundation board meeting conference call. I was fortunate enough to participate in that conference call and have the opportunity to summarize it

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