Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-18 Thread Pierre Béland
surcharge de travail aux contributeurs expérimentés qui doivent ensuite corriger.   Pierre De : john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> À : Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> Envoyé le : mardi 18 octobre 2016 7h52 Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Projec

Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-18 Thread Denis Carriere
Hey AJ, Thanks for understanding, this project has been discussed many times at the local OSM Ottawa Meetup and we've proven this method of import is very efficient on smaller scale projects. We might of leaned a bit too much on StatsCan to tackle the "legal" part of it, however everything has

Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-18 Thread john whelan
When I looked through the existing buildings I came across a tag that was ele often with a value of 2 or 3. I suspect this is the number of stories and the same as building:levels which is in wiki/Map_Features. Could any one confirm this as it is one of the attributes that Stats Canada is

Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-18 Thread James
Also I forgot about this one: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2015-August/006602.html which was on the import list and talk-ca(I forgot because it was so long ago) Which everyone seems to be on board, except for the license. Solicense is compatible now... On Oct 17, 2016

Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-17 Thread James
I'm the one running the tasking manager. On Oct 17, 2016 9:08 PM, "AJ Ashton" wrote: > Hi John, > > Thanks for the writeup. I think this is the first post that's made it > fully clear what is going on. As I was re-reading the previous StatCan > thread earlier today I seemed to

Re: [Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-17 Thread AJ Ashton
Hi John, Thanks for the writeup. I think this is the first post that's made it fully clear what is going on. As I was re-reading the previous StatCan thread earlier today I seemed to be missing something - now I guess it was context available to those who attended in-person meetings. I don't

[Talk-ca] The Statistics Canada Project

2016-10-17 Thread john whelan
First I'm not running it but I used to work there before I retired and have since have been bribed with a mug of coffee to provide some input so I think have an understanding of what they are trying to do. Essentially they are interested in adding details to non-residential buildings in Ottawa /