Re: [Talk-ca] Manitoba buildings, addresses and high school work

2018-03-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01.03.2018 16:00, john whelan wrote: > These are all things that can be added with tools such as street > complete.  Because you are adding tags to enrich the existing data you > are unlikely to to draw a building in the wrong place. > > I'd go after enriching the existing data first

Re: [Talk-ca] Manitoba buildings, addresses and high school work

2018-03-01 Thread john whelan
Looking at Brandon in OpenStreetMap many buildings are mapped but there isn't much detail. Stats was after things like the number of levels, house number, street name, is the building commerical, residential, apartment. There are some 70 or 80 different tags used for buildings in taginfo. At

Re: [Talk-ca] Manitoba buildings, addresses and high school work

2018-03-01 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 2018-02-28 11:59 AM, James wrote: > Before Scruss comes out and says it: … thanks, James! Been busy with the new job. > After license is approved … I'm not a lawyer, but the Brandon licence looks especially troublesome. It's not based on any other licence I've seen. Most worryingly, it

Re: [Talk-ca] Manitoba buildings, addresses and high school work

2018-02-28 Thread john whelan
If I look at OpenStreetMap at Brandon there seems to be most buildings have been mapped. https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Brandon%20canada# map=14/49.8381/-99.9503 They don't align perfectly with Bing but they aren't too bad. If you ask nicely someone could pick them up and move them

Re: [Talk-ca] Manitoba buildings, addresses and high school work

2018-02-28 Thread john whelan
If I look at OpenStreetMap at Brandon there seems to be most buildings have been mapped. https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Brandon%20canada#map=14/49.8381/-99.9503 They don't align perfectly with Bing but they aren't too bad. If you ask nicely someone could pick them up and move them

Re: [Talk-ca] Manitoba buildings, addresses and high school work

2018-02-28 Thread James
Before Scruss comes out and says it: 1. Wiki documentation 2. You need to get LWG to approve license as it's not a standard license. Explicit permission can certainly help our case. After license is approved we could move on to approval of data quality, then submit it for revue on import

Re: [Talk-ca] Manitoba buildings, addresses and high school work

2018-02-28 Thread john whelan
Similar to does not mean the same unless it is the TB Open Data license but I suspect it predates that one. Given that Stats Canada has said it will make the data available through the Federal Government's Open Data portal real soon now I suspect that an email from the city even to yourself would

[Talk-ca] Manitoba buildings, addresses and high school work

2018-02-28 Thread keith hartley
Hi OSM'ers I am working on adding buildings to OSM in Manitoba and have a few questions. I was just offered an updated building footprint and address shape file from the City of Brandon, and agreement that it can be used in OSM. I understand that the license needs to be compliant with the OSMs