Re: [Talk-ca] Forestry Roads

I agree with James and have been tagging forestry roads with highway=track in my area of Ontario. On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Tristan Anderson andersontris...@hotmail.com wrote: This is how I tag forestry roads: tertiary: major logging roads in remote areas, sometimes also access mines

Re: [Talk-ca] ON prefix on Ontario highways

It might make sense to have that info included. Perhaps it could use a separate tag and then renderers can choose how to label it. On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Andrew MacKinnon andrew...@gmail.com wrote: Also this user has been adding A to Quebec autoroutes, R to Quebec provincial

Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca is up!

I'll second Harald's suggestion to have the map show Canada on load. On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Harald Kliems kli...@gmail.com wrote: First, thanks to Darryl and Richard for taking care of this! I have one quick, easy (I assume), and probably non-controversial suggestion: when I

Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca

I think the most practical and easiest thing to do would be to have a trusted community member control it. I'm sure that we can come up with some measures to ensure that we can contact the domain owner when necessary. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: I

Re: [Talk-ca] Importance of Geography

Using sociology students as a benchmark for geographic education is not a really good measure. Nothing against sociology students, but it would be the same as quizzing geography students about sociology. On the other hand, not being able to locate the Atlantic Ocean on a map when you're in

[Talk-ca] OSM on CBC Radio

I caught the tail end of Spark today and I was surprised to hear discussion about OSM. Here's a link to the recording for anyone interested: http://www.cbc.ca/spark/full-interviews/2012/12/04/future-of-digital-mapmaking/ ___ Talk-ca mailing list

[Talk-ca] Algonquin Provincial Park

I've noticed a lot of problems with the map of Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario so I've created a wiki page to better organize editing efforts in the Area. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Algonquin_Provincial_Park The park is a major tourist attraction in Ontario and a good quality map of

[Talk-ca] CanVec Imports in areas with existing data

I've recently imported some CanVec 10 data into the North Bay, Ontario area. It's been hard to figure out the best way to do this because of the assorted versions of existing data in the area. After chatting with some folks in the #osm-ca channel, I left the existing major highways to preserve