Hi Tyler, Welcome. Yup, thats alot of houses. Great work!
A couple things. 1 - You can use Toporama from Natural Resources Canada, and set it up as a WMS layer in JOSM http://wms.ess-ws.nrcan.gc.ca/wms/toporama_en?LAYERS=limits,vegetation,builtup_areas,designated_areas,hydrography,hypsography,water_saturated_soils,landforms,constructions,water_features,road_network,railway,populated_places,structures,power_network,feature_names&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage&FORMAT=image/png&; You can trace all you want & as much detail as you like. Toporama is derived from the exact same source as CanVec & GeoBase, and it's the same level of detail. (you might have seen that on the Canada wiki page) There is a TONNE of information, so i'd recommend just mapping what you like. Others will join in once they see your area so well detailed & let the competition begin! (Quality in a small area, beats quantity over a big area IMO) 2 - The Town of Duncan, BC On Vancouver Island is perhaps the best mapped place in Canada. Although we did get some help from (Local Mappers / Landsat / Yahoo imagery / CanVec/Toporama/GeoBaseNRN/ GeoBaseNHN/Cowichan Valley Regional District / Atlas of Canada / NRCan geogratis ). Great work Kevin Smith! (who is the top contributor) This is a wonderful example of a combination of efforts from multiple sources. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.77478&lon=-123.69681&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF 3 - On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:28 PM, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > A purely personal point of view. I like the footpaths, Google doesn't have > these. I'm not so sure about the houses as a block. I'd be more inclined > to drop in street numbers in post code blocks using > addr:interpolation<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:interpolation> > . > for example > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.47761&lon=-75.484175&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF > > The reason for this is to cram in as much useful information as possible > whilst minimising the number of points in the GIS database. Each house has > a min of four points as a block, using interpolation two points can > represent a block of ten houses. Be aware though that I worked as an > assembler language programmer forty years ago when computer resources were > much more expensive than they are today but I still like to consider them so > I'm bias. > Yup, and how you already have houses drawn in. It will make the map look even better. Cheers, Sam > > Postcode searches don't exactly work as they should in Canada at the moment > but being able to look up an address helps routing software etc. > > Any buses run in the area? Bus stops can be useful to people trying to > find their way by public transport. > > Any businesses or stores around? Supermarkets perhaps that are open 24 > hours? Tag them with their web site, phone number, type of business etc. > Especially decent coffee shops, you never know I might want to visit > sometime. > > OSM is electronic so add tags in JOSM perhaps to POIs. Once the data is in > the database different rendering solutions can pull or present different > images based on what the user would like to see. > > Cheerio John > > > > > On 13 April 2010 20:25, Tyler Gunn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I discovered OSM a few weeks ago and have been hooked since. I've been >> refining the existing map data for my subdivision, adding new roads, >> cleaning up existing ones, and adding POIs. >> >> I've also traced all the houses in my subdivision and am planning to head >> out with a stack of WalkingPapers and gather POIs and address mappings: >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.78226&lon=-97.16557&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF >> >> Can anyone out there recommend good examples of well mapped areas in >> Canada? I'm just looking to get a feel for what people are mapping, and how >> they're handling interesting road junctions, etc. I realize the Wiki has >> guidelines for lots of this but its always nice to get some tips and tricks >> from other sources as well. >> >> Thanks! >> Tyler >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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