Hi Corey, It sounds like a competion. :-) I think we can make Vancouver Island better than the lower mainland.
I'm still planning a mapping party day @Sidney. April 7th. I'll invite people the manual way. :) Cheers, Sam On 3/29/10, Corey Burger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Gregory <[email protected]> > wrote: >> To imports and talk-ca mailing list, >> As you may know, I'm in Canada until May studying at the University of >> British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver. >> I'm doing one class in GIS and this week the teacher just introduced us to >> some data on the geography computers we can use for our project. It is >> from >> the UBC Plant Ops division and has a lot of exciting data for the Point >> Grey >> campus ( http://osm.org/go/WJQi9HNV- ). >> I think it would be great to have some of this data in OSM, as it would >> benefit both sides. For example they have all the bicycle rack locations, >> but we add the capacity to each node, and with the locations it would be >> easier to do that. I'm going to write an e-mail to my professor to see who >> his contact in Plant Ops is and then contact them to ask for OSM import >> permission > > Gregory, > > Bicycle racks would certainly be a welcome addition. I look at the > number around UVic and shudder. > > However, who holds copyright on the data? They need to sign off on > importing it into OSM if it isn't licensed under fairly liberal terms. > If you don't know then it is likely all rights reserved. Plant Ops may > not have the ability to do this. Likely you are going to need to clear > it through Legal, which can add time and headaches. > >> 1) Should the source tag be used on every node/way(that has other tags), >> or >> just on the changesets? > > On all the nodes, so that we can see where they come from > >> 2) Most layers imported I think will be none or few existing data, but >> some >> (like bicycle_parking) will have a fair few duplicates. Are there any good >> tools for that (does the US tiger remove dupes work for this?) or is it >> showing/hiding layers with JOSM? >> >> I had a bit of a look at the data in ArcGIS available and wrote these >> notes >> on what's there: >> The prof made a point of Plant Ops not using GIS, it's originally in a CAD >> program and so there is no metadata. For a lot of files it's just nodes >> with >> no data besides the co-ordinates and an id. >> >> It seems to geographically match OSM road shapfiles, which I aligned to >> GPS, >> so I don't see realignment being needed. > > Check the datum and projection. They need to match what OSM uses, > which I currently cannot remember. > > Cheers, > > Corey > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
