Hi there, I am a technical writer and also a geoinformation pro. What can I do for you guys?
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It appears to me to be long > winded and aspires to many things but seems short on practicalities. > > Do we have any technical writers who could look it over? > > Thanks > > Cheerio John > > On 28 January 2018 at 19:50, OSM Volunteer stevea < > stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > >> And...you're off and running (better and better). >> >> This is a process, everybody. Nobody wants to be slapping anybody >> around. I like the way we've been polite and patient with each other here. >> >> Regards, >> SteveA >> >> > On Jan 28, 2018, at 4:47 PM, Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca> wrote: >> > >> > Inline >> > On 2018-01-28 07:38 PM, john whelan wrote: >> >> We have lots of people talking about this. >> > >> > Yay! >> > >> >> We have a wiki page somewhere that covers some ground. Could someone >> remind me of the address? >> > >> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Build >> ing_Canada_2020 >> > >> > needs lots of improvements. I started. I see Steve A did a bunch as >> well. >> > >> >> >> >> Do we have anyone willing to project manage this? It is a very big >> project with lots of aspects and complications to it. >> > >> > I have not heard of any. I am willing to help some, but it really needs >> to be a full-time person (or bunch of people to make it to full time). >> > >> >> >> >> Do we have a list of attributes that should be added to buildings? If >> they aren't on the wiki then I think they should be. >> > >> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Build >> ing_Canada_2020#The_data_being_mapped >> > >> > Although I think the list is impractical... how to get all the >> attributes listed? >> > >> >> I am aware of public wif, levels, use ie commercial, residential. >> There are some tiles set up somewhere for mapping and validation. >> >> >> >> Could we have a pointer to them please if they aren't on the wiki >> already. >> >> >> >> We have interest from schools and universities do we have any material >> that could be used for them? >> >> >> >> Do we have a "hello to help with this project please use Bing imagery >> with JOSM building_tool plugin on the following tiles. If you use iD >> please be very careful and map the building outlines exactly." >> >> >> >> and "this is how you add a tag?" >> >> >> > Needs to be added. The folks doing Ottawa buildings recently probably >> have the best experiences to provide guidence to newbies. Also probably >> should be a template for the tasking manager to point at. (For all the >> building related tasks). >> > >> > If the Ottawa/Gatineau experience teaches us anything, I suspect that >> doing buildings is going to be a multi-step process per >> municipality/region/province. Import stuff, manually map stuff, add more >> tags, whatever... ie going from zero buildings to "perfect" buildings in >> one shot is not reasonable. >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Talk-ca mailing list >> > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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