Thanks john, lots of questions and comments, cool. :-) i did make a request out for help on the wiki, but i guess that'll be the november project now that the data is 'relitavely' organized. :-)
I'll work on a detailed reply, in the next couple days :) (and fix the wiki with an extract) Sam p.s. Ya, i know diggin through the archives to see whats going on is a daunting task :) On 10/21/09, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > This is all red tape type stuff but as you get more complex so it > starts to pay off. > > At the moment we seem to be importing the initial imports from > Geobase. To me that seems quite different from other parts of the > world where the maps have to be built up by hand from GPS data. > > Could some one identify what is the most useful thing new people can > do perhaps on the wiki page for Canada > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada. I get the > impression we would like to limit roads etc being input to people with > GPS devices and not only that but we'd prefer one that was WAAS > capable or accurate to 3 meters rather than the 15 meter accuracy of > the older devices. Could we identify a map that has been imported and > tagged so people can get an idea of what we are trying to do and the > standards we are after? > > Whilst I don't especially like recommending one companies product over > another it might be worth pointing out that if they'd like to purchase > a GPS device then something like Garmin eTrex Legend HCx GPS would be > ideal. Being both WAAS, having ample memory and being highly > sensitive. Also there seem to be more projects that create Garmin > maps than others at the moment. Perhaps a pointer to the device on > www.mec.ca / www.amazon.ca. > > There seems to be a need to "Trace" Ariel / Satellite maps in the US > using JOSH since they don't have the facility to do the import has we > have so perhaps we could point people in this direction until we were > ready for them to search out "Tim Hortons" and add them to the > imported maps? > > To improve data quality might it be an idea to limit edits to Canadian > maps for the moment until the import is done for a particular section > then allow additional data to be added perhaps even some restrictions > on what people can do initially unless they were "known" in some way? > > I note that Bikes lanes and bus stop data are being sort from two > cities. Could same sort of circular letter be created that would list > the sort of data we would welcome from other cities? Then get local > volunteers to request this data? I think it might be best to be able > to go to the cites with an example of the map as it exists for their > city perhaps after an import? > > That raises another issue that of writing scripts to do the imports. > Currently we have one of two people with that skill is it documented > anywhere so others could do a few? This becomes especially important > to cope with the sheer volume of data if we manage to extract data > from the cites for bus stops, cycle lanes etc. > > Cheerio John > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
