[Talk-ca] Newbie to the Canadian mapping scene looking for examples of well mapped areas

[john whelan]

A purely personal point of view.  I like the footpaths, Google doesn't have
these.  I'm not so sure about the houses as a block.  I'd be more inclined
to drop in street numbers in post code blocks using
addr:interpolation<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:interpolation>
.

for example
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.47761&lon=-75.484175&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF

The reason for this is to cram in as much useful information as possible
whilst minimising the number of points in the GIS database.  Each house has
a min of four points as a block, using interpolation two points can
represent a block of ten houses.  Be aware though that I worked as an
assembler language programmer forty years ago when computer resources were
much more expensive than they are today but I still like to consider them so
I'm bias.

Postcode searches don't exactly work as they should in Canada at the moment
but being able to look up an address helps routing software etc.

Any buses run in the area?  Bus stops can be useful to people trying to find
their way by public transport.

Any businesses or stores around?  Supermarkets perhaps that are open 24
hours?  Tag them with their web site, phone number, type of business etc.
Especially decent coffee shops, you never know I might want to visit
sometime.

OSM is electronic so add tags in JOSM perhaps to POIs.  Once the data is in
the database different rendering solutions can pull or present different
images based on what the user would like to see.

Cheerio John



On 13 April 2010 20:25, Tyler Gunn <tyler at egunn.com> wrote:

> I discovered OSM a few weeks ago and have been hooked since.  I've been
> refining the existing map data for my subdivision, adding new roads,
> cleaning up existing ones, and adding POIs.
>
> I've also traced all the houses in my subdivision and am planning to head
> out with a stack of WalkingPapers and gather POIs and address mappings:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.78226&lon=-97.16557&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF
>
> Can anyone out there recommend good examples of well mapped areas in
> Canada?  I'm just looking to get a feel for what people are mapping, and how
> they're handling interesting road junctions, etc.  I realize the Wiki has
> guidelines for lots of this but its always nice to get some tips and tricks
> from other sources as well.
>
> Thanks!
> Tyler
>
>
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