Hi Tyler and all!
I would consider Sherbrooke as a well mapped area!-) http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.3788&lon=-71.8948&zoom=14&layers=B000FT F Actually there are plenty of good examples around the country, each of them having their own "color". Welcome Daniel _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Vekemans Sent: April 13, 2010 22:26 To: john whelan Cc: Kevin Michael Smith; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Newbie to the Canadian mapping scene looking forexamples of well mapped areas 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,built up_areas,designated_areas,hydrography,hypsography,water_saturated_soils,land forms,constructions,water_features,road_network,railway,populated_places,str uctures,power_network,feature_names <http://wms.ess-ws.nrcan.gc.ca/wms/toporama_en?LAYERS=limits,vegetation,buil tup_areas,designated_areas,hydrography,hypsography,water_saturated_soils,lan dforms,constructions,water_features,road_network,railway,populated_places,st ructures,power_network,feature_names&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMa p&STYLES=&EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage&FORMAT=image/png&> &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 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.77478&lon=-123.69681&zoom=16&layers=B0 00FTF> &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 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.47761&lon=-75.484175&zoom=18&layers=B0 00FTF> &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 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.78226&lon=-97.16557&zoom=16&layers=B00 0FTF> &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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