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

[Tyler Gunn]

On 2010-04-13, at 8:28 PM, john whelan 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.
> 
> for example http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.47761&lon=-75.484175&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF

Hi John,

I will probably not block out the houses like this in the future and will instead just rely on the address interpolation.  Adding the house numbers to all these houses is going to involve lots of legwork and time in JOSM.  Oh well.  :)  I will stick to interpolation in the future.  I think my original thought was that by doing it this way you'd be able to really precisely be able to locate each numbered house; but in retrospect WAY overkill.  Hah, I can actually drive my car up to my house and the GPX tracks go up my driveway and into the model of my garage.

I've been working on adding addr:street and addr:housenumber tags to everything, along with street relations.  What is the best way to get post code data?  Is it valid to look it up on Canada Post's website?  

Yes, there are some buses and I am going to be adding in the stops and routes, following the  recommendations here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Manitoba:Winnipeg#Bus_stops

Thanks for the other hints and tips.  I'll likely just take some walking papers around and see what all I can find; bus stops, stores, etc.  




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