[Talk-ca] Addresses and POI

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi, the main reason im not tackling it right now is because we have
provinces which are still missing the basic primary road
infrastracture. And there is other data that is easier to work with
(and i already can use shp-to-osm, and it isn't that painful).

There is a user in Winnipeg who is trying to figure it out also.

There is no automated way to map it, but we CAN make the method as
painless as possable (this is a community built map).

An aside:
It's now on my todo list;
Create a wiki page for [[Statistics Canada -StatsCan]] and document:
-what types of data is available
-what format the data is available in
-what quality the data is known for
-what methods are available to convert the data (PostGIS, qgis,
shp2osm, shp-to-osm, OpenJUMP)
-what methods to use the data for osm (josm layer, gpx file, create
wms layer, osm-splitter)
-what tags to use and examples.
-then leave sections blank where its still unknown.

If knowone else does, i'll make the page in the next few weeks.

Cheers,
Sam

On 4/20/10, Marc Provencher <marc at marcprovencher.com> wrote:
> In Mapsource, with the Metroguide map, when I hover over a street with the
> mouse pointer, a small text box (tooltip) will show up with addresses at
> that point.
>
> With OSM (again in Mapsource), this doesn't work.
>
> Is that because OSM doesn't have address tags for that street? If so, what
> methods have others used to import or enter large number of addresses in
> OSM? I'm in Calgary, Canada. Geobase doesn't seem to have an address layer.
>
> cheers,
>
> --
> Marc Provencher
> marc at marcprovencher.com
>


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