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

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi Tyler,
Welcome.

Yup, thats alot of houses.  Great work!

A couple things.

1 - You can use Toporama from Natural Resources Canada, and set it up as a
WMS layer in JOSM

http://wms.ess-ws.nrcan.gc.ca/wms/toporama_en?LAYERS=limits,vegetation,builtup_areas,designated_areas,hydrography,hypsography,water_saturated_soils,landforms,constructions,water_features,road_network,railway,populated_places,structures,power_network,feature_names&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage&FORMAT=image/png&

You can trace all you want & as much detail as you like.  Toporama is
derived from the exact same source as CanVec & GeoBase, and it's the same
level of detail.  (you might have seen that on the Canada wiki page)

There is a TONNE of information, so i'd recommend just mapping what you
like.  Others will join in once they see your area so well detailed & let
the competition begin!   (Quality in a small area, beats quantity over a big
area IMO)

2 - The Town of Duncan, BC On Vancouver Island is perhaps the best  mapped
place in Canada.
Although we did get some help from  (Local Mappers / Landsat / Yahoo imagery
/ CanVec/Toporama/GeoBaseNRN/ GeoBaseNHN/Cowichan Valley Regional District /
Atlas of Canada / NRCan geogratis ).   Great work Kevin Smith! (who is the
top contributor)   This is a wonderful example of a combination of efforts
from multiple sources.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.77478&lon=-123.69681&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF

3 -

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:28 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Yup, and how you already have houses drawn in.  It will make the map look
even better.

Cheers,
Sam


>
> 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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