Hello Roman. I am a Calgary area mapper. Let me know if you need my involvement in this. More than happy to help
Iain > On Mar 28, 2019, at 08:53, Roman Auriti <roman.aur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for sharing those, Nate. I like using PostGIS and I would be happy to > help the community clean geometries. Is there anyone in Calgary on the > mailing list? > >> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 8:20 AM john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The trade off is if it can be used elsewhere then there is a benefit for >> using open source software however if it's only going to be used once here >> and we have someone who knows the proprietary software very well the data >> that ends up in OSM doesn't really care how it was produced. >> >> This is more a religious argument. >> >> Lots of people run OSM applications on Windows and Android both if which are >> proprietary ran than on an open source version of Unix. >> >> Cheerio John >> >>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 10:04 AM Roman Auriti, <roman.aur...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Why is it that FME seems to be a tool that's OK to use for OSM when someone >>> replied that they could use PostGIS and was shut down by someone else >>> replying 'I'm not installing postgesql for you to accept simplification'? >>> Does anyone else find it a little ironic that the community would move >>> forward with proprietary software over open software? >>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 7:46 AM Begin Daniel <jfd...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> Buildings where there is no available municipal data >>>> >>>> Sent from Galaxy S7 >>>> >>>> >>>> From: John Whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> >>>> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:32:32 AM >>>> To: Begin Daniel >>>> Cc: Talk-ca; keith hartley >>>> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import >>>> >>>> Are you talking about the older CANVEC data or the data that Stats has >>>> released which is really municipal data? >>>> >>>> Thanks John >>>> >>>> Begin Daniel wrote on 2019-03-28 8:31 AM: >>>>> Someone has compared Bing and Canvec data in rural areas? >>>>> >>>>> Sent from Galaxy S7 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> From: OSM Volunteer stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 11:52:02 PM >>>>> To: Talk-ca >>>>> Cc: keith hartley >>>>> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import >>>>> >>>>> Ah, good dialog ensues. Municipality by municipality, in conjunction >>>>> with BOTH the StatsCan and Bing data, the right things are getting >>>>> noticed, the right things are getting human-realized at what the next >>>>> steps are to do. It gets better. >>>>> >>>>> Yay. Stitch it together. One municipality at a time. One province at a >>>>> time. Pretty soon, after a few revisions of data and back-and-forths >>>>> between municipalities and province-wide data checking, you've got >>>>> something. There, you go. >>>>> >>>>> SteveA >>>>> >>>>> > On Mar 27, 2019, at 8:23 PM, keith hartley <keith.a.hart...@gmail.com> >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> > The patchwork of municipalities is at least useful, before we didn't >>>>> > have a framework for adding this data, but at least we do now thanks to >>>>> > the umbrella license @ Stats Canada. We're a big country with very few, >>>>> > but very skilled OSM mappers (IE gecho111 mapped all of regina's >>>>> > building footprints! ). >>>>> > >>>>> > I like the concept of the Bing data, but they may have to do another >>>>> > few tries, or maybe retain their Neural network. - Is there anywhere >>>>> > where the Bing data looks nice? I found burbs in Winnipeg not bad, but >>>>> > there's some really weird elements when the source data is too simple >>>>> > (buildings in the middle of fields) or too complex (urban cores) >>>>> > >>>>> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 6:29 AM John Whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> > The Stats Canada data comes from the municipalities. Unfortunately >>>>> > there are over 3,000 in Canada so yes ideally each would be treated >>>>> > separately in reality each municipality doesn't have a group of skilled >>>>> > OSM mappers who are capable of setting up an import plan and doing the >>>>> > work although there is nothing to stop them doing so. >>>>> > >>>>> > Cheerio John >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sent from Postbox >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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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