[Talk-ca] iD editor

2016-06-15 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
iD is being actively developed and I saw that it's also going modular. Does anyone have experience using iD editor for custom projects? Bjenk Ellefsen, PhD Data Exploration and Integration Lab (DEIL) | Lab d'exploration et d'intégration de données (LEID) Center for Special Business Projects

[Talk-ca] New project update

2016-04-22 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
c information about these non-residential buildings. Are we talking about the number of windows in the building or employees? The number of floors or the specific businesses / activities carried out in them? Just give us something more to go on and we can discuss it from there :) Adam On Thu

Re: [Talk-ca] New project update

2016-04-22 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Kevin, We would probably break it down in smaller chunks. We were thinking of a possible pilot with specific areas. A tasking manager would be very helpful in we do it this way. Bjenk From: Kevin Farrugia [mailto:kevinfarru...@gmail.com] Sent: April-21-16 12:00 PM To: Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN

Re: [Talk-ca] New project update

2016-04-27 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
This task was created for testing I believe. From: Bruno Remy [mailto:bremy.qc...@gmail.com] Sent: April-24-16 7:20 AM To: john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> Cc: Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca>; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> Subject:

[Talk-ca] New Project

2016-04-20 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello everyone, My name is Bjenk Ellefsen, I work at Statistics Canada. We are interested in knowing more about putting together a potential project with openstreetmap. I have a couple of questions: who should we talk to? Is there a board or admins we should be talking to? How do we submit a

Re: [Talk-ca] New Project

2016-04-20 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
with the openstreetmap community and your advice would be very helpful. Bjenk From: Adam Martin [mailto:s.adam.mar...@gmail.com] Sent: April-20-16 11:05 AM To: Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] New Project OSM is com

[Talk-ca] New project update

2016-04-21 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello everyone, Basically, what we would like to do is define a project for OSM to collect information about non-residential buildings. We would like to popose a list of what would be collected. We were thinking of identifying specific areas to start with. Cheers, Bjenk Ellefsen, PhD Center

[Talk-ca] New project at Statistics Canada / Nouveau projet à Statistique Canada

2016-07-25 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello everyone, Thanks for the many feedback. We really look forward to working with the OSM community. As mentioned by some, working with an online community is a new undertaking for our agency. There is a lot of learning involved (for us) but we are confident we can make a valuable

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-07-25 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
: James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] Sent: July-18-16 4:58 PM To: Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada Should be pretty easy on the Gatineau

[Talk-ca] Statistics Canada

2016-07-25 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
John and colleagues, Many thanks for offering your help. We will definitely need it! We are trying to develop an efficient way to import municipal open data (building footprint) for the municipality of Ottawa and Gatineau. We are in discussion with both municipalities and based on OSM previous

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-10 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
:23 PM To: Laura O'Grady <la...@lauraogrady.ca> Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org>; Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca>; Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada The

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 102, Issue 22

2016-08-10 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
wdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada (john whelan) -- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 12:38:48 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmail.com> To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org>

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 102, Issue 20

2016-08-10 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
information on OSM. Bjenk Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 23:08:39 -0400 From: "Laura O'Grady" <la...@lauraogrady.ca> To: "Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)" <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing build

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 102, Issue 21

2016-08-10 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
the buildings attributes we are looking for. Bjenk Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 10:26:46 -0400 From: john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> To: James <james2...@gmail.com> Cc: "Ellefsen, Bjenk \(STATCAN\)" <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca>, Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca

[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings - project with StatCan

2016-08-11 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello, Said simply, we are looking for the following: * Building type (residential, commercial, industrial, school, farm, etc.) * Building name * Address * Use (this is similar to type but I understand that there needs to be an attribute to capture stuff like

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 102, Issue 6

2016-08-03 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
ada (James) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 11:07:41 -0400 From: James <james2...@gmail.com> To: john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> Cc: "Ellefsen, Bjenk \(STATCAN\)" <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca>, Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> Su

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-03 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Yes, that would be very useful. From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] Sent: August-02-16 3:56 PM To: Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 102, Issue 6

2016-08-03 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
ada (James) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 11:07:41 -0400 From: James <james2...@gmail.com> To: john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> Cc: "Ellefsen, Bjenk \(STATCAN\)" <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca>,

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings - project with StatCan

2016-08-12 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Pierre, Ces scripts sont intéressants. Je vais regarder ça de plus près. As-tu essayer osmlint? Tu as une opinion sur cet outil? Bjenk From: Pierre Béland [mailto:pierz...@yahoo.fr] Sent: August-12-16 11:43 AM To: Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca>; 't

[Talk-ca] Nouveau project à Stastique Canada

2016-07-20 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Mon nom est Bjenk Ellefsen. Je travaille dans le Laboratoire d'exploration et d'intégration des données à Statistique Canada. Ce message est la version française du message précédent. Je vous écris pour vous informer que plus tôt ce mois-ci, Statistique Canada a lancé un projet pilote de deux

[Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-07-18 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Dear members of the Board of Directors, My name is Bjenk Ellefsen. I am working for the Data Exploration and Integration Lab at Statistics Canada. I am writing to inform you that earlier this month, Statistics Canada initiated a two-year pilot project aimed at understanding the potential of

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-07-18 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
[mailto:pierz...@yahoo.fr] Sent: July-18-16 12:47 PM To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> Cc: Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada Bonjour Bjenk Les contributeurs de certains

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-07-18 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
As noted by John, The message should have read, dear members of the OSM community! ☺ Bjenk De : john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com<mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com>> À : "Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)" <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca<mailto:b

[Talk-ca] Statistics Canada buildings - iD interface

2016-08-05 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
When we launch, the plan so far is to have a modified version of iD for Canadians to use. This version will be hosted by StatCan wrapped in a basic StatCan website. The options were to simply direct towards the OSM webpage with the default iD, to use a modified iD version that we host or to use

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 102, Issue 19

2016-08-05 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
there for instructions. Bjenk Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 13:30:34 -0400 From: john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org>, "Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)" <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> Subject: [Talk-ca] Stats Can Guidelines for mapp

[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings project with Statistics Canada

2016-08-02 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello everyone, In brief, as we have presented it before, we will launch the project in October with an outreach campaign starting in September. Canadians will be invited to use OSM to provide information about buildings. We met with a few of you two months ago and we received some very good

[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-02 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello everyone, Here is what we would invite Canadians to tell us about buildings for OSM: name Address: * Number * street * city * postal code levels office, shop type of access (handicap, etc.) If there is a way to categorize them as residential, non-residential that

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-03 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
ks John On 2 Aug 2016 2:53 pm, "James" <james2...@gmail.com<mailto:james2...@gmail.com>> wrote: There is a way to tag a building type Here is a list of the building types: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building#Values On Aug 2, 2016 2:48 PM, "Ellefsen, Bjenk

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-03 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Could we make that page more encompassing of Canada and the project? Other areas might want to get started and it would be great if they could find the info as well. From: James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] Sent: August-03-16 12:50 PM To: Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca&

Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

2016-08-03 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
. Bjenk From: James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] Sent: July-26-16 7:55 AM To: Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada For Gatineau, I've been manually traci

[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2017-01-20 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello everyone, Big news, the City of Ottawa has released the footprint of over 325,000 buildings on their open data portal in support to the project with Statistics Canada and the OSM community. We are very grateful for the amazing collaboration with the City of Ottawa on this pilot project

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings - project with StatCan

2016-08-24 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
tête reposée ce weekend et jouer un peu avec osmlint. Merci beaucoup, Pierre je t’en redonne des nouvelles ! Bjenk From: Pierre Béland [mailto:pierz...@yahoo.fr] Sent: August-12-16 1:56 PM To: Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> Cc: 'talk-ca@openstreetmap.org' &l

[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

2016-08-31 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello everyone, I am back from vacation and doing my best to catch up! Things are moving fast so I will jump right into some updates: I added the project on the OSM Canada wiki page on both English and French page. I would like to add a separate page where we will document the project in

[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada - Outreach launch

2016-09-14 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello everyone, We are launching the outreach tomorrow. Canadians will be made aware of the project. As soon as the Webpage is live, I will add the link to the OSM Canada wiki in the section for the project. This is giving us another month to work out some details. Do not hesitate to raise

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa has a new Open Data licence.

2016-09-15 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
John, this is great! So, that means you can use the address file, its online right? I also have another file that is not on the portal and it contains well over 300,000 buildings which most are not on OSM. How shall we proceed with that file? We are still putting those up on the federal portal

[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada, Launching!

2016-10-17 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello, We are now live and launching! Thanks everyone for your help and let's see how this goes! http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/crowdsourcing Bonjour, Nous sommes en ligne! Le projet est lancé! Merci à tous pour votre aide et voyons comment ça se déroulera !

[Talk-ca] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-12-22 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Hello everyone, As James wrote yesterday, the City of Ottawa has approved the release of a large building footprints file for their Open Data portal. We have been working in close collaboration with the City of Ottawa on that front and it is a major contribution. We are tracking progress and

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 106, Issue 5

2016-12-22 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Talk-ca digest..." Today's Topics: 1. [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project] (Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)) 2. Re: [Imports] Fwd: [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 109, Issue 13

2017-03-07 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
Kevin and Denis, and others, Thank you all for the amazing answers to my question. It all makes sense. Later we could talk about writing up an approach to get there iteratively, I think we all agree it is needed at some point. Bjenk -Original Message- From: