Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

Thanks James. That's a good idea to create web documentation like that, obviously learning from the past. With it there is no guessing later down the road as to what is what if something needs to be modified, where it came from, etc. I have a couple of time consuming projects on the go now so

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines Usually involves creating a wiki page like https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ottawa/Import/Plan outlining that licensing isnt an issue and what tags would be used(addr:housenumber and addr:street for address points) as well as contigency

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

Okay, I'll scrap the idea of importing roads - mostly because they are already there - just off skew but a dozen or more meters in many places. I wrote software to fix most of our issues in our area - maybe there is an API to do the same with OSM and I can volunteer some skills there. As a side

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

> Imports are quite the pain to try and do - there's a whole process in place > now to do them. It stems from the experience in the States of an import more > than a decade ago of the TIGER data (from the Census Bureau) that is still > being fixed after pretty large amounts of time working

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

Thanks Kevin, That would make sense if there were attribute changes but if all the basics are the same they are still split. There is odd fields in the data likely left over from an import years ago that just was never cleaned up. With GIS databases, it would have been so easy to do a merge on

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

Hey Jason, Imports are quite the pain to try and do - there's a whole process in place now to do them. It stems from the experience in the States of an import more than a decade ago of the TIGER data (from the Census Bureau) that is still being fixed after pretty large amounts of time working

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

Hi Jason, I am happy to help. Sounds like a fun project. John On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 1:02 PM Jason Carlson wrote: > While waiting for a response I think if I import roads that already exist > (albeit incorrectly) it will possibly be just as much work to fix. I tried > editing changes but the

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

While waiting for a response I think if I import roads that already exist (albeit incorrectly) it will possibly be just as much work to fix. I tried editing changes but the aerial photos by Bing are horribly inaccurate in some places. I think they must pay for accuracy based on the amount of

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

Okay, I've heard back, The original data I built on and all the data I added has no licensing restrictions for distributions and is allowed for public use. In fact the non-profit organization AMDSP.ca has locally maintained data from a number of

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

There are 3032 roads I've entered so that would take a long time to do it manually. I'm just looking up licensing - it was all created by me, however, I downloaded a shapefile to get the end points for roads I needed to line up with outside our county. It also had parameter fields that they also

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

The limitation is generally licensing. Openstreetmap can accept an import of data that is freely licensed, but the criteria for "freely" are fairly strict - most Canadian cities' "open data" don't meet it. If you're familiar with Creative Commons, the license will likely have to be as free or

[Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

I noticed a number of roads in our county are incorrect in our area (as are most rural areas with next to no population). I recently rebuilt all our GIS road data and submitted it to an organization that then redistributes it to emergency dispatch services and about 25 organizations/companies. I