Please see https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Key:level
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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
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
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)
On Feb 2, 2018, at 6:08 PM, john whelan wrote:
> > John: "tenets, sub-culture, planning, project management, scope, status,
> > video clips, explaining process and various audiences" are not buzzwords.
> > They are well-established, hundreds of years old (well, not video clips)
> > and most
> John: "tenets, sub-culture, planning, project management, scope, status,
video clips, explaining process and various audiences" are not buzzwords.
They are well-established, hundreds of years old (well, not video clips)
and most importantly, they work. Yes, "wiki" is more modern and specific
to
You are welcome, Jonathan.
SteveA
> On Feb 2, 2018, at 5:45 PM, Jonathan Brown wrote:
>
> Bingo, that’s exactly what we want to pilot in Northumberland, Niagara,
> Durham regions and possibly the City of Toronto. I’m going to chat with
> Sterling Quinn on Monday and will ask him for his flight
:08 PM
To: Jonathan Brown; talk-ca
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education
Jonathan: (I spell your name correctly this time, sorry about that):
> In Ontario, school boards are licensed to use ArcGIS. This is what many
> municipal and regional GIS staff us. For t
On Feb 2, 2018, at 5:03 PM, john whelan wrote:
> >I repeat myself: less buzzword-compliance, please. More embracing of
> >tried-and-true OSM tenets and culture, like front-loaded planning, ongoing,
> >wide-area project management on something with nationwide scope as this,
> >wiki writing/upd
Jonathan: (I spell your name correctly this time, sorry about that):
> In Ontario, school boards are licensed to use ArcGIS. This is what many
> municipal and regional GIS staff us. For the non-GIS experts it is not
> user-friendly. I saw this first hand with an outdoor education teacher I was
>I repeat myself: less buzzword-compliance, please. More embracing of
tried-and-true OSM tenets and culture, like front-loaded planning, ongoing,
wide-area project management on something with nationwide scope as this,
wiki writing/updating both intent and ongoing status, making available
short v
probably the most interesting thing to come
> out of the project. I also had a few discussions with people working with
> the city to make a similar database, but they had some of the usual
> concerns about using OSM as their main repository (e.g., liability,
> perceived lack of control)
I repeat myself: less buzzword-compliance, please. More embracing of
tried-and-true OSM tenets and culture, like front-loaded planning, ongoing,
wide-area project management on something with nationwide scope as this, wiki
writing/updating both intent and ongoing status, making available short
M
To: Jonathan Brown; talk-ca
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i OSM Distributed Model and Education
On Jan 30, 2018, at 7:49 AM, Jonathan Brown wrote:
> I don’t mind reviewing the OSM education wiki for lessons learned and
> “promising practices” and seeing how it might inform the design of
I think we need to identify the possible problem areas and those things
that would be useful to the students. Not all students will have the same
needs.
The first is we really want to avoid students tracing building outlines in
iD. Experience has shown they aren't very good at it. JOSM and the
On Jan 30, 2018, at 7:49 AM, Jonathan Brown wrote:
> I don’t mind reviewing the OSM education wiki for lessons learned and
> “promising practices” and seeing how it might inform the design of a mapathon
> event aligned to the K-12 curricula and postsecondary capstone project model.
> It will be
I don’t mind reviewing the OSM education wiki for lessons learned and
“promising practices” and seeing how it might inform the design of a mapathon
event aligned to the K-12 curricula and postsecondary capstone project model.
It will be messy, but that’s the nature of the beast. To use the jargo
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