[Talk-ca] Toronto Potential Datasource

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Sam Vekemans
> <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi All,
>> It looks like the City of Toronto just joined in the cool-club :-)
>>
>> Thanks to user:Aude who looks to be a wikipedian... maybe could fix my
>> ramblings? :-)... lol ... maybe not..
>>  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Aude
>
> Great, so I wasted the last several years mapping Toronto :)
>
> (I am exaggerating here, because there is a huge amount of data which
> simply isn't available in these datasets, and must be added manually.
> For example, the location of shops and other businesses.)
>
> Looks like there is a huge amount of data here. Road centerlines,
> addresses, park boundaries, some recreational trails, rivers, churches
> and a few other things are all in shapefile format and can be imported
> easily. [ ... ]

Take another look.  Parts of the road centreline data are at least
years out of date.  And the centerline data freely mixes roads with
geographic boundaries with rivers, some sharing "junctions".  That'll
be a mess to convert properly.

I think the addressing data will be a nice addition to OSM.  They
haven't released the parcel data yet, but they have it and might
release it.  The TTC data is for street cars and buses only so far.