Hi all, Thanks Stewart for initiating this discussion, I am one of the folks working on OSM data at Metrolinx. We are currently working on OSM data of our service area to improve the address range information for route planing purpose. Our concern is improving address searching issues for the service based system using OSM as basemap. Our area of interest is Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton, mostly in new subdivision areas. Our conflation methods is based on an in-house algorithm of buffering left and right sides of the street segments to detect the missing parts, following with an extensive visual inspection (walking though all new data on OSM base map).
We are going to publish our wikipage soon in OSM webpage and give more details. Metrolinx is an young agency with spirit of young professionals for open data and open source software. Hopefully we will have constructive feedback from the communities! Thanks for your support, Mojgan *Mojgan Jadidi, Ph.D.* *Intern, Applied Research and Corporate Monitoring,* *Metrolinx | 97 Front Street West, Toronto, ON, M5J 1E6 * *T: 416-202-5844* *Postdoctoral Research Fellow* *GeoICT Lab,** York University **| **Toronto* On 12 January 2016 at 13:30, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Talk-ca mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Talk-ca digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data (Stewart C. Russell) > 2. Re: Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data (Pierre Choffet) > 3. Re: Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data (Adam Martin) > 4. Re: Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data (Kevin Farrugia) > 5. Re: Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data (Pierre Choffet) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:52:14 -0500 > From: "Stewart C. Russell" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hey, > > We had a couple of folks from Metrolinx (the GTHA/Golden Horseshoe > transit agency) at the Toronto Mappy Hour last night. Their Triplinx > route planner — http://www.triplinx.ca/ — consumes OSM data for > addresses. They want to find ways to work with the community to improve > addressing in their service area. They're mostly concerned about getting > better address ranges than individual points. > > I don't know what their next steps are, but they seem to be approaching > the community in a different and slightly better way than most agencies. > > cheers, > Stewart > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/attachments/20160112/0ba99cdb/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:25:26 -0500 > From: Pierre Choffet <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello, > > I'm not sure this message will help, but just in case: here in Montreal, > we have imported the address layer from CanVec data which includes the > interpolations. Import is never trivial, but given your needs and the > improvement of the service for all users it's probably a good idea to > evaluate this dataset first. > > Cheers > > Pierre > > Le 12/01/2016 08:52, Stewart C. Russell a écrit : > > Hey, > > > > We had a couple of folks from Metrolinx (the GTHA/Golden Horseshoe > > transit agency) at the Toronto Mappy Hour last night. Their Triplinx > > route planner — http://www.triplinx.ca/ — consumes OSM data for > > addresses. They want to find ways to work with the community to > > improve addressing in their service area. They're mostly concerned > > about getting better address ranges than individual points. > > > > I don't know what their next steps are, but they seem to be > > approaching the community in a different and slightly better way than > > most agencies. > > > > cheers, > > Stewart > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ca mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/attachments/20160112/9637bec4/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:20:26 -0330 > From: Adam Martin <[email protected]> > To: Pierre Choffet <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data > Message-ID: > <CADqb88tRd4TiMvPyEV0RUOcToqY3= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Taking a look around the data in OSM for Toronto, it would appear that the > address interpolations have been added via import from CanVec already, > Pierre. Which prompts the question as to what, exactly, did the people from > Metrolinx mean when they expressed concern about "getting better address > ranges than individual points". The current data is in address range > format. So are these inadequate (either that they don't cover the correct > spaces, are incomplete or missing) or are they looking for addresses to be > attached to specific buildings? > > Adam > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Pierre Choffet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm not sure this message will help, but just in case: here in Montreal, > > we have imported the address layer from CanVec data which includes the > > interpolations. Import is never trivial, but given your needs and the > > improvement of the service for all users it's probably a good idea to > > evaluate this dataset first. > > > > Cheers > > > > Pierre > > > > Le 12/01/2016 08:52, Stewart C. Russell a écrit : > > > > Hey, > > > > We had a couple of folks from Metrolinx (the GTHA/Golden Horseshoe > transit > > agency) at the Toronto Mappy Hour last night. Their Triplinx route > planner > > — http://www.triplinx.ca/ — consumes OSM data for addresses. They want > to > > find ways to work with the community to improve addressing in their > service > > area. They're mostly concerned about getting better address ranges than > > individual points. > > > > I don't know what their next steps are, but they seem to be approaching > > the community in a different and slightly better way than most agencies. > > > > cheers, > > Stewart > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ca mailing [email protected]:// > lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ca mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/attachments/20160112/53c4890c/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:59:53 -0500 > From: Kevin Farrugia <[email protected]> > To: Adam Martin <[email protected]>, Pierre Choffet > <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Afternoon everyone, > Metrolinx is looking at adding missing address ranges - either those that > were never added in or those that are in new neighbourhoods. I believe > they're also looking for problems where the street name on the highway > doesn't match the address range street name due to spelling mistakes, > different sources, etc. > -Kevin > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message > --------From: Adam Martin <[email protected]> Date: 2016-01-12 > 12:50 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Pierre Choffet <[email protected]> Cc: > [email protected] Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden > Horseshoe Address Data > Taking a look around the data in OSM for Toronto, it would appear that the > address interpolations have been added via import from CanVec already, > Pierre. Which prompts the question as to what, exactly, did the people from > Metrolinx mean when they expressed concern about "getting better address > ranges than individual points". The current data is in address range > format. So are these inadequate (either that they don't cover the correct > spaces, are incomplete or missing) or are they looking for addresses to be > attached to specific buildings? > > Adam > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Pierre Choffet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm not sure this message will help, but just in case: here in > Montreal, we have imported the address layer from CanVec data which > includes the interpolations. Import is never trivial, but given your > needs and the improvement of the service for all users it's probably > a good idea to evaluate this dataset first. > > > > Cheers > > Pierre > Le 12/01/2016 08:52, Stewart C. Russell > a écrit : > > > > > Hey, > > > > We had a couple of folks from Metrolinx (the GTHA/Golden > Horseshoe transit agency) at the Toronto Mappy Hour last night. > Their Triplinx route planner — http://www.triplinx.ca/ > — consumes OSM data for addresses. They want to find ways to > work with the community to improve addressing in their service > area. They're mostly concerned about getting better address > ranges than individual points. > > > > I don't know what their next steps are, but they seem to be > approaching the community in a different and slightly better way > than most agencies. > > > > cheers, > > Stewart > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ca mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/attachments/20160112/5e5164e4/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:30:00 -0500 > From: Pierre Choffet <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Metrolinx: OSM Golden Horseshoe Address Data > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Le 12/01/2016 12:50, Adam Martin a écrit : > > Taking a look around the data in OSM for Toronto, it would appear that > > the address interpolations have been added via import from CanVec > > already, Pierre. > Indeed. I checked before sending my email, but I zoomed in a place where > there is no CanVec address interpolations data, what I wrongly > extrapolated city-wide. > > Sorry for both these irrelevant messages. > > Pierre > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Talk-ca Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2 > ************************************** >
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