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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve been a longtime fan of Open Street Map but this is the first time I ever decided to help contribute to it. I am the GIS technologist for the Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada -<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/53.3085/-60.3463"><span style='color:#954F72'>https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/53.3085/-60.3463</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s a small, isolated community of approximately 8,100 people and I’m the only one with any GIS training and experience. As a result, I’m responsible for doing just about everything to assist the town in geospatial-related functions and have a very tight budget and not a lot of time to them. One of the things there’s been a real interest in is developing some sort of a basic interactive web map for the town’s public information (zoning, water and sewer lines, attractions for our tourist map, etc.). I’m planning on using QGIS plugin qgis2web to do that and use an OpenStreetMap background.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Before I can do that, OpenStreetMap data for the town needs to be updated. It looks to me approximately five years out of date and the town has been experiencing a major boom in the last few years. Currently, the town has possession of an updated street centerline network (digitized from 40 cm resolution orthorectified Worldview 2 satellite imagery) and an up-to-date civic number system with building footprints and parcels for recreational spaces and etc. coming later this year. I’d like to share them with the OSM community.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Before I do that, I’m looking for community buy-in for the project. I will start with manually adding the new streets that have been built over the last few years and correct any information within the town boundaries that no longer represents reality on the ground. If that’s ok with all of you, I’d like to make the OSM web mapping for my corner of Canada a little better.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Anatolijs Venovcevs</b> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>