Re: [Talk-ca] Cleanup

2012-03-01 Thread Tyler Gunn
Objects edited only by those two non-agreed accounts, regardless of the current version number.  (Provided these  objects are not natural=coastline objects.)  That will remove a number of objects that were imported by one of these accounts and then modified by the other. That should clear up

Re: [Talk-ca] Aboriginal Lands

2012-02-13 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Bonjour again Paul, An example is not yet available but yes, it will form closed area split like large lake.  That is a limitation of the Canvec.osm product for the moment :-( With wooded areas and lakes I've

Re: [Talk-ca] Aboriginal Lands

2012-02-09 Thread Tyler Gunn
It is possible to include Aboriginal Lands in the next release of Canvec.osm. However, I'm trying to find a consensus in the community concerning the tags/values to use? I've found some links to… - boundary=administrative; admin_level =aboriginal_land - boundary=administrative; admin_level

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative Boundary

2012-02-09 Thread Tyler Gunn
I would also suggest that these features in the .osm file not be closed – just have the boundary, don’t handle it like lakes where you have multiple areas you need to join where they cross tile bounds. I agree; this can be especially problematic when the split objects end up being

Re: [Talk-ca] ogr2osm problems

2012-02-06 Thread Tyler Gunn
I haven't run into this before myself, but I suspect that the character encoding for the boundaries files you're dealing with must be something other than UTF-8. The french characters are likely causing issues. Try opening up the file in Quantum GIS as a vector layer, and then do a Save as for

Re: [Talk-ca] StatCan Boundaries

2012-01-17 Thread Tyler Gunn
For those that remember, I asked a question about city boundaries and sources of data. Can the data from StatCan be used in OSM? I'm referring to this product for example: http://geodepot.statcan.gc.ca/2006/040120011618150421032019/02152114040118250609120519_05-eng.jsp Best, Olivier As far

Re: [Talk-ca] ODbL compliant remapping

2012-01-12 Thread Tyler Gunn
vreimer seems to have touched a great deal of ways across Canada, which sparked the banning of his account quite a while ago. He is listed as being contacted, but we have never seen a response from this user, at least that I know of. I think we need to review this on an almost case by case

[Talk-ca] Some french translation advice

2012-01-11 Thread Tyler Gunn
I'm working on a JOSM plugin to help rename/reclassify provincial roads and provincial trunk highways in Manitoba in the Canvec data. The goal is to enforce a common naming for PRs and PTHs in MB. Generally, highways with ref=0-99 are considered Provincial Trunk Highways, and as such I've got the

Re: [Talk-ca] Automated imports of Canvec?

2011-12-20 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Bonjour Tyler, Considering the way Canvec/GeoBase product are created, I'm curious to know where you found objects that were named in GeoBase and not in Canvec. Could you send me some examples please :-)

[Talk-ca] Automated imports of Canvec?

2011-12-15 Thread Tyler Gunn
I've been merging Canvec tiles here in Manitoba over the past while, and although I can clearly see the need to do this manually where this is pre-existing data, I'm wondering what peoples thoughts are about automating this process where there is NO pre-existing data in the location bounded by a

[Talk-ca] Fixed version of JOSM to ease Canvec merges

2011-12-13 Thread Tyler Gunn
JOSM previously had the ability to fix the duplicate nodes present where canvec tiles join one another, but in recent versions appears to have removed that capability. Based on a bug I found in the JOSM bug tracker, I created a patch to re-enable this functionality:

Re: [Talk-ca] Fixed version of JOSM to ease Canvec merges

2011-12-13 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Harald Kliems harald.kli...@mail.mcgill.ca wrote: Dear Tyler: Could you maybe elaborate what that fix from previous versions did exactly? Sounds like it might be a useful function for other, non-Canvec related tasks, too. Thanks,  Harald. Sure, the chance

Re: [Talk-ca] Re-licensing -- a good excuse to rework some data.

2011-12-04 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:56 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: Personal view - why not just import the Canvec data? If you use keeprite to have a qeikc look at the area

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 46, Issue 2

2011-12-02 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Sam Dyck samueld...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent, but is the City of Winnipeg aerial imagery kosher for use with OSM? I was under the impression that the aside from the Transit Department, the city doesn't believe in open data. Are you using a WMS server to

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoTiff in JOSM

2011-09-09 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: xjjk has put up his scripts at http://caligula.rhombic.net/~xjjk/OpenStreetMap/scripts/ gdal2tiles-mp.py is the multi-threaded version Rename-TMS-layout-to-Google-Layout.py    creates a script that renames tiles. Excellent;

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoTiff in JOSM

2011-09-07 Thread Tyler Gunn
I believe you can also have JOSM get files directly from your hard drive, but I'm not sure the syntax  to do so on the Mac. I did a render with gdal2tiles and was able to get it working fine in Merkaator. Something about the tile number origin being opposite in JOSM. Maptiler is essentially

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoTiff in JOSM

2011-09-05 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:55 PM, penorman penor...@mac.com wrote: I'm at work and going on vacation so I can't give a detailed answer for a few days, but this might help No problem, any help is appreciated. Once the tiles are made you can serve the directories with apache or another web

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoTiff in JOSM

2011-09-02 Thread Tyler Gunn
Two options 1. Covert to tiles with gdal2tiles or another program. How would I then serve these to JOSM? 2. Set up MapServer and server it with WMS 1 is faster at serving tiles but takes more disk space and pre-processing. 2 is slower but better for large files since you don't have to

[Talk-ca] GeoTiff in JOSM

2011-08-30 Thread Tyler Gunn
Anyone have a hint of how to view a GeoTiff in JOSM? Manitoba Lands Initiative updated the aerial imagery of Winnipeg and has a 50cm res MrSid file of the Winnipeg capital region; much more up to date than Bing aerial and also including high res pics of areas that Bing doesn't have. I've converted

Re: [Talk-ca] Winnipeg Transit data published PDDL

2011-05-10 Thread Tyler Gunn
Well, it should be somebody local, willing to proceed slowly and check the process at each step.  Sound like anybody you know? ;-) I suppose for once there is an advantage to living in Winnipeg. :) Tyler ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Winnipeg Transit data published PDDL

2011-05-10 Thread Tyler Gunn
Hi Tyler, I work for Winnipeg Transit and am the current maintainer of the GTFS export. While I can't speak to the quality of any of the GTFS importers, GO_Sync looks pretty comprehensive, and our GTFS feed should contain all of the data they mention. If you or somebody else does end up

Re: [Talk-ca] Winnipeg Transit data published PDDL

2011-05-09 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Winnipeg Transit has published their gtfs data as PDDLv1.0.  The zip file includes a LICENSE file with the PDDL dedication. http://gtfs.winnipegtransit.com/google_transit.zip Nice! Has anyone looked at importing this? I

Re: [Talk-ca] Notes on a Saskatchewan import

2011-03-03 Thread Tyler Gunn
off. But the general shape of things should be fine, so you can work from that to determine what road is what. Tyler -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com http://www.egunn.com/ ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] Notes on a Saskatchewan import

2011-03-02 Thread Tyler Gunn
extract areas you want to work with. Tyler -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com http://www.egunn.com/ ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] requests for import of Satscan Data

2011-02-19 Thread Tyler Gunn
please import the StatsCan street names for Creighton? Thanks Sam Dyck (the one who is neither Sam Vekemans nor Samuel Longiaru) Hi Sam, I've got the province of Saskatchewan converted already. I'll send it to you in a followup email. Thanks, Tyler -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com http

Re: [Talk-ca] Purging vreimer

2011-01-18 Thread Tyler Gunn
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Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec tiles in Manitoba missing? Schools becoming prisons in Canvec 7?, and more...

2011-01-12 Thread Tyler Gunn
Thanks Daniel, I appreciate the response. I'll keep an eye out for the tiles I'm looking for. Thanks, Tyler On 2011-01-10, at 9:27 AM, Bégin, Daniel wrote: Bonjour Tyler, Samuel, Olivier, Richard and all The Canvec.osm conversion process is still running... Some .gml Canvec files (input

[Talk-ca] Manitoba Highway Naming -- Need some French translation advice

2011-01-04 Thread Tyler Gunn
In my most recent Canvec Imports of MB I'm trying to nail down the french names for Provincial Roads and Provincial Trunk Highways in Manitoba. So far the general scheme I'm using for naming is as follows: Provincial Trunk Highway: Any highway where ref=[0-9]{1-2} (ie one or two digit route

[Talk-ca] Canvec tiles in Manitoba missing?

2010-12-30 Thread Tyler Gunn
, is not processed. Just curious if that means there's no newer data available for that tile? Thanks! Tyler -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com http://www.egunn.com/ ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Re: CanVec import troubles

2010-09-30 Thread Tyler Gunn
? I'm in no rush for the Manitoba stuff as there is plenty to import in the lower half of the province where the problem has not made itself apparent. Thanks, Tyler -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

[Talk-ca] Getting my edits to show up in Canvec Activit y?

2010-09-22 Thread Tyler Gunn
| Tygunn | 2010-09-21 22:14:13 | 61665 | 0 | Active I typically set my changeset comments to something like: Canvec 062J02.1.osm Just wondering what pattern I should use? Thanks! Tyler -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com

Re: [Talk-ca] Random nodes after canVec import

2010-09-13 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:44:34 -0700, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: hi, The Manitoba Data is a live dataset that is continiously being updated, just like canvec, so it isn't a one-time import. Well, the data I was importing would be a one-time import; it's building outlines

Re: [Talk-ca] Random nodes after canVec import

2010-09-12 Thread Tyler Gunn
Btw yes manitoba lands data is fine as their license is compatible. Sent from my iPhone On 2010-09-12, at 11:50 AM, Samuel samueld...@gmail.com wrote: Hi So data for morris has been imported (Thank you John), but looking at the data in JOSM show hundreds of blank nodes in town. Do these

Re: [Talk-ca] Random nodes after canVec import

2010-09-12 Thread Tyler Gunn
Okay, I've fixed up the Morris area; I've merged in the street names you added int he latest change set. You're free to edit this area as much as you like now. Thanks, Tyler ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Random nodes after canVec import

2010-09-12 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:59:12 -0400, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com wrote: Btw yes manitoba lands data is fine as their license is compatible. Please add the details for the Manitoba Lands Data and license to the import

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing CanVec

2010-09-12 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:22:10 -0500, Samuel samueld...@gmail.com wrote: Hi After thinking about it for a while, I realized that I can keep relying on others to do CanVec imports for me, so I resolved to figure out how to do it myself. I have a few questions. 1. Can and import be done

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing CanVec

2010-09-12 Thread Tyler Gunn
with merging data on a smaller scale. Areas like Winnipeg are a pain because there is so much exising data and you need to determine what to keep, merge and add. Tyler -- -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] Morris

2010-09-11 Thread Tyler Gunn
I can do that for u. When do you need it for? Sent from my iPhone On 2010-09-11, at 1:48 PM, Samuel samueld...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I had an opportunity to visit the town of Morris, Manitoba (http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?mlat=49.355mlon=-97.365zoom=15layers=B000FTF). Seeing

[Talk-ca] Figured out MB coastlines issue.

2010-09-08 Thread Tyler Gunn
Someone set the natural=coastline on the outline of Lake Winnipeg to natural=water, but didn't fix the natural=coastline islands in the middle. :) Tyler -- -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging huge wooded areas?

2010-09-02 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 04:41:02 -0700, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: over-complicating :) That tends to be my modus operandi. the 'wooded area' doesnt actually mean that much other than stating 'Hey, there is trees over there' Well, it DOES look really nice to see it on

[Talk-ca] Manitoba Garmin Map - Daily

2010-08-31 Thread Tyler Gunn
If anyone out there is mapping in MB and wants to keep up to date with the absolute latest state of the MB map, I'm generating garmin maps of MB on a daily basis (all scripted, so no I'm not doing it manually). If you're interested, drop me a line and I can send you a link so you can keep up to

Re: [Talk-ca] editing a canvect building question

2010-08-18 Thread Tyler Gunn
If it's really messed up I'd just delete it and retrace it from yahoo. The buildings in canvec tend to be pretty low resolution any how. Sent from my iPhone On 2010-08-18, at 12:57 PM, Louis-Marius Gendreau l...@gendreau.qc.ca wrote: Hi a building here is wrong. Much of it has been

Re: [Talk-ca] Over-classification of rural roads in Canvec data?

2010-08-17 Thread Tyler Gunn
-- apparently this one is used by locals as a throughfare, and as such deserves the tertiary status, while one of the roads next to it that appears the same is not as well used. Go figure. :) Thanks, Tyler -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com ___ Talk-ca mailing

Re: [Talk-ca] Over-classification of rural roads in Canvec data?

2010-08-16 Thread Tyler Gunn
On further reflection I'm going to re-classify my down-graded tertiaries back to tertiary. The entire Canvec dataset is this way, so we might as well keep the country consistent. It's such a minor point really in my mind, why make things over complicated. Tyler

Re: [Talk-ca] Over-classification of rural roads in Canvec data?

2010-08-16 Thread Tyler Gunn
data quite nicely. Great to see there is yet another useful resource out there! Thanks, Tyler -- -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Over-classification of rural roads in Canvec data?

2010-08-16 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:23:30 -0400, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Oops, should have gone to the list. I wasn't able to find the license on the Manitoba site.  Any chance you could link to it, and send it to the License Working Group? Seems like there shouldn't be any issues as it's

[Talk-ca] Any way to dirty large areas of Mapnik ?

2010-08-08 Thread Tyler Gunn
the tiles that are not rendering correctly. :) -- -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging CanVec data, updating status

2010-07-30 Thread Tyler Gunn
maps regularly. However, it seems I can NEVER get a good planet.osm download; they're always corrupts. Or did you start with JUST a download of Ontario (using the XAPI API) and are just applying the planet diffs to that? Thanks, Tyler -- -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com

Re: [Talk-ca] CANVEC Comments

2010-07-29 Thread Tyler Gunn
in the Canvec data when there is no data there already. :) Tyler -- -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] CANVEC Comments

2010-07-29 Thread Tyler Gunn
If you draw a selection box over where the two tiles meet and run the validator in Josm one of the errors it can report is duplicate nodes. When you are merging tiles where roads and areas are split between the tiles there is a copy of all nodes on the border between the tiles in each file.

Re: [Talk-ca] Converted Stats Can Boundaries files.

2010-07-27 Thread Tyler Gunn
you are right - for the moment, because ... It should be available on GeoBase before the end of summer - or soon after !-) - Administrative boundaries/names for levels 6-8; - Geometries provided by local authorities, except for AB; Once the data is available on GeoBase, then I'll

[Talk-ca] Canvec alignment - careful when merging tiles!

2010-07-26 Thread Tyler Gunn
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[Talk-ca] Converted Stats Can Boundaries files.

2010-07-23 Thread Tyler Gunn
I've converted over the Statistics Canada boundaries data for the ten provinces; I still need to do the territories: * http://www.mediafire.com/?ugsc0uvun8cs7gn - Boundaries for BC * http://www.mediafire.com/?ozhtnnjbnz5m3cj - Boundaries for AB * http://www.mediafire.com/?d3uq0jxjdc9gxxr -

Re: [Talk-ca] Deleting existing roads...

2010-07-14 Thread Tyler Gunn
I tried seeing if I could take two CanVec block and merge them with existing roads. Well I created a mess and ended up deleting the blocks. Yeah, working with the Canvec data in an already populated area of the OSM map is frustrating to say the least. I've been working on a tile that

Re: [Talk-ca] Routing

2010-07-13 Thread Tyler Gunn
missing in the Canvec data. Again, might want to check if the names are shown in the canvec data. I know here in MB all the streets are unnamed in the Canvec data, meaning we need to copy the street names manually from the Stats Can data. Tyler -- -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com

Re: [Talk-ca] Ground Truthing protocol? --- Re: Accurac y of CanVec vs Yahoo?

2010-07-07 Thread Tyler Gunn
for ground truthing the data (Canvec, etc.)? I would find it interesting doing some ground truthing. I will be interested to see what all people have to say about this. :) I for one wish I could get access to some survey-grade GPS equipment. But its just so darn expensive. Tyler -- Tyler Gunn ty

Re: [Talk-ca] JOSM Difference?

2010-07-07 Thread Tyler Gunn
This means NRCan has a process that do it for roads. We will start to compare datasets this fall. The differences found will be made available on the ftp site as - Commission files (what is in Canvec but not in OSM); - Omission files (what is in Osm but not in Canvec); This process

Re: [Talk-ca] Priority on OSM/CanVec

2010-07-06 Thread Tyler Gunn
If we're talking priority, then I'd love to see more of Manitoba, specifically these areas I'm very familiar with: 062H - Winnipeg 062I - Gimli 062N - Dauphin area Thanks! Tyler ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Accuracy of CanVec vs Yahoo?

2010-07-06 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:11:40 -0400, G. Michael Carter mi...@carterfamily.ca wrote: When importing the data do we favour yahoo existing data in OSM (which is obviously traced from satellite imagery) or CanVec? I'm assuming CanVec for parks would be based on official park boundaries rather

[Talk-ca] Converting stats can boundaries....

2010-07-05 Thread Tyler Gunn
I'm working on converting the StatsCan census boundaries to OSM format. Here are a few smaller cities/towns in Manitoba to give you an idea of what they look like imported: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/66090425 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/66090418

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada License?

2010-06-25 Thread Tyler Gunn
So have we collectively as a group contacted Stats Canada in the past regarding the usage of their products in OSM? They do have a license email address. If we want to clear this up I can contact them regarding our project and intended use of their data. In the mean time, I added the boundary

Re: [Talk-ca] Stats Canada to English Translator needed

2010-06-24 Thread Tyler Gunn
is not agreeable, then we have been using the Stats Can NRN data improperly. Tyler -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] CanTopo!

2010-06-23 Thread Tyler Gunn
For those of you who have been under a rock about Merkaarator, (like me) the editing tool is very good. It allows nice viewing of WMS layers, which seems to be better than JOSM. So out of curiosity, does Markaator allow direct opening of the TIFF files? JOSM doesn't seem to allow this. What

[Talk-ca] Approaching civic government for access to GIS data..

2010-06-22 Thread Tyler Gunn
government in this manner? If so is there any starting point letter I could use that someone has? Thanks! Tyler -- -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Approaching civic government for access to GIS data..

2010-06-22 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:19:32 -0700, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Cool, ya, its easier to get it done now than in a few months from now. No doubt; once all the Geobase data floods in this wouldn't be quite so easy!!! If you find the city boundaries file before i do, feel

Re: [Talk-ca] Best way to keep OSM data up to date locally...

2010-06-15 Thread Tyler Gunn
GroundTruth getdata -b=-115,50,-114,51 or just use the OSM interface zoom to the area and 'download'. Xapi can also to a coord + zoom to get an area. Or just use JOSM and save the datalayer1 as your OSM file (if its just the downtown core) Thanks for that; it pretty much confirms the

[Talk-ca] Fwd: Re: Ottawa Bus stops

2010-06-09 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:30:21 -0400, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: I've had a discussion with the only other local mapper I'm aware of in Ottawa and we are proposing the following for Ottawa bus stops, which I've entered in the wiki. There is a GTFS feed available for Ottawa and

[Talk-ca] Geobase vs. Yahoo...

2010-06-04 Thread Tyler Gunn
I was looking around winnipeg's downtown (http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.89162lon=-97.14226zoom=16layers=B000FTF) and noticed that the street grids don't align all too well to what is in Geobase. It looks like the original outline of the street grid was done as a tracing from Yahoo.

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm sample files are ready

2010-06-02 Thread Tyler Gunn
Hi Daniel, First of all, WOW, great job. I could never get my address interpolation ways to look that nice doing them manually!! I have a few questions about the Address Interpolation ways in the Halifax sample: 1. I didn't notice any addr:housenumber tags on the start or end nodes of any of

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm sample files are ready

2010-06-02 Thread Tyler Gunn
than the hand-made ones I tried. Tyler -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Geobase/Toporama WMS down?

2010-05-26 Thread Tyler Gunn
Hey, has anyone been having problems getting to the geobase and toporama WMS servers lately? I haven't been able to get them to respond in JOSM. Thanks, Tyler ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-ca] Wiki-Fu, not worky

2010-05-17 Thread Tyler Gunn
On Mon, 17 May 2010 10:24:13 -0400, si...@mungewell.org wrote: I was just looking at the Alberta wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Alberta:Calgary And there is a broken link (if that's possible on a wiki) for 'Alberta' in the second paragraph, this however is magically

Re: [Talk-ca] Addressing in Canvec.osm

2010-05-12 Thread Tyler Gunn
Hi Tyle, The work you are doing is excellent, I just wanted to alert you to an issue with rural numbering (in case you are unaware of it). Our 'street' (subdivision) does not have linear numbering; that is the number sequence increases from the start of the road, but has gaps ie.

[Talk-ca] Start of Wiki page on StatsCan NRN data...

2010-05-12 Thread Tyler Gunn
I've started putting together a Wiki page on the StatsCan NRN data here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Statistics_Canada_%28StatsCAN%29 I'll be collecting all of my future thoughts and efforts with using this data there, as well as providing a tutorial of how to use the data to create

[Talk-ca] First usage of StatCan NRN data..

2010-05-11 Thread Tyler Gunn
Here's a small area I have applied the converted StatCan NRN address data to. In my first attempt I definitely put the address interpolation ways FAR too close to the streets; I just fixed this so it may or may not be visible.

[Talk-ca] Examples of StatCan Address Ways

2010-05-09 Thread Tyler Gunn
Alright, here is an example shot of the raw address interpolation ways after my conversion routine brings them in from the StatCan shape files: http://www.egunn.com/gallery2/d/27982-2/road_misalign.jpg You'll notice that the roads are quite misaligned from the OSM mapped roads, and in some cases

[Talk-ca] CanVec import - willing to help

2010-05-06 Thread Tyler Gunn
Hello, Sorry if this post is redundant; I wasn't sure how up to date the Wiki is so I figured I'd just ask. :) Anyways, I'm just curious if there is any work I could do to help out with the CanVec import. I'd be more than happy to sift through the data for my area, Winnipeg (062H14). To do

[Talk-ca] Addressing and Garmin maps...

2010-04-23 Thread Tyler Gunn
Hello all, I've installed the garmin street maps generated by Ben Konrath for all of Canada from (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download).They seem to work fine on my Nuvi 750, with one exception; address look-ups for the areas I've added don't seem to work. I added

Re: [Talk-ca] How to mark up intersections with right turn exits

2010-04-14 Thread Tyler Gunn
You may optionally include the implied turn restrictions. You should change the flares (those short turn lanes) to primary_link, or secondary_link, etc. The _link part means on-ramp, off-ramp, or flare. Hi Richard, Thanks for that; I'll give a try at cleaning up that intersection and see

[Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-14 Thread Tyler Gunn
I've been poking around in OpenJUMP and am looking at the StatsCan road names data for Manitoba. When selecting a way in there it's easy to get the street name. I notice that they also have the address in format: ADDR_FM_LE: ADDR_TO_LE: ADDR_FM_RG: ADDR_TO_RG: The statscan technical spec

[Talk-ca] Newbie to the Canadian mapping scene looking for examples of well mapped areas

2010-04-13 Thread Tyler Gunn
I discovered OSM a few weeks ago and have been hooked since. I've been refining the existing map data for my subdivision, adding new roads, cleaning up existing ones, and adding POIs. I've also traced all the houses in my subdivision and am planning to head out with a stack of WalkingPapers

Re: [Talk-ca] Newbie to the Canadian mapping scene looking for examples of well mapped areas

2010-04-13 Thread Tyler Gunn
Hi Tyler, Welcome Yup, thats alot of houses. Great work! Thanks! A couple things. 1 - You can use Toporama from Natural Resources Canada, and set it up as a WMS layer in JOSM Awesome! I've added that in and have been able to trace some roads up in rural MB around Dauphin, the

Re: [Talk-ca] Newbie to the Canadian mapping scene looking for examples of well mapped areas

2010-04-13 Thread Tyler Gunn
of features to add to the area and all the addressing to do. Work work! :) -- Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com http://www.egunn.com/ ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca