[Talk-ca] FW: Welcome to MyTTC!

Adam Dunn dunnadam at gmail.com
Sun Mar 28 22:58:51 BST 2010


Cool, looking at [http://bcer.trams.bc.ca/pics/chilllq.JPG] the railyard was
converted into the library/Salish Park/Holiday Inn (now Coast Hotels). Looks
like a good use of the railway=abandoned tag? [
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railway]

Adam

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Nice ideas :)
> I wish Victoria, BC would have not dug up the old street-car line and paved
> it into a road.   It would be great to see a rail line that isn't just a
> tourist train going 2 times a day. ... 1 time per direction.
>
> Sorry i cant be of much help right now, directly to you, but hopefully
> others who are more local would help. :)
>
> (For the talk-ca@ discussion list)   Hows 'railway=proposed'?  As i dont
> think there are conflicting plans, dont see a problem with it being listed,
> and not physically connected.   Another option is to draw it in as a GPS
> track (using bikemap.net or Garmin MapSource routable map) and just export
> that file for viewing overtop of  Google earth with the openstreetmap KML
> layer turned on?  (also, OpenOrienteringMap lets you draw on the map a route
> & print it as a PDF.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bob Bowles <rkbowles at telus.net> wrote:
>
>>  Total novice, just found your site, HELP !
>>
>> Bob Bowles, Langley City, BC
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>> *From:* Kevin Branigan [mailto:kevin at refactory.ca]
>> *Sent:* Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:44 PM
>> *To:* Bob Bowles
>> *Subject:* Re: Welcome to MyTTC!
>>
>> Hey Bob,
>>
>> Are you just trying to compile the database?  I would personally suggest
>> OpenStreetMaps,
>> that way other people could benefit from your hard work - they also have
>> excellent tools to help you with entering the data.
>>
>> If you're a web developer you can use the tools on CloudMade to produce
>> nice looking maps that incorporate your dataset.
>>
>> I sure would like to see that data for the Toronto area, but I'm not sure
>> what I'd do with it to be honest.
>>
>> Thanks for using our site,
>> Kevin
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Bob Bowles <rkbowles at telus.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hello Kieran & Kevin
>>>
>>>  I'm starting on a personal project to indentify all railbed, past and
>>> present, in the entire Fraser Valley.
>>>
>>> My first source is a map put out by CBRE called " Greater Vancouver
>>> Industrial & Commercial Areas "
>>>
>>> I found all the old streetcar runs at this website -
>>> http://bcer.trams.bc.ca/maps.html
>>>
>>> This site has some good ideas for the South of Fraser region.
>>> http://www.box.net/shared/xhs5dlwcg0
>>>
>>> There is also a book with all the old logging railbeds, part of a Valley
>>> Logging history book I found at a museum.
>>>
>>> How would you, digitally overlay these and perhaps add other lines as I
>>> find them?
>>>
>>> Further I see 2 pinch points in the Valley, Pattallo railbridge and where
>>> hwy 91 & hwy 99 meet.
>>>
>>> Then I need to figure out who owns which sections of railbed.
>>>
>>> Ideally, I'd like to model an entire transit system.
>>>
>>> Too much time on my hands now that I'm not driving the streetcars
>>>
>>> http://www2.bombardier.com/vancouver/index.html
>>>
>>>  ------------------------------
>>> *From:* myttc at refactory.ca [mailto:myttc at refactory.ca]
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 23, 2010 7:34 PM
>>> *To:* rkbowles at telus.net
>>> *Subject:* Welcome to MyTTC!
>>>
>>>  Thanks for signing up at MyTTC.ca <http://myttc.ca> !
>>>
>>> You can *totally* respond to this e-mail, we're actual people.
>>>
>>> We hope you have as much fun using the site as we had building it. If you
>>> have any comments or suggestions, please drop us a line!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Kieran & Kevin, refactory
>>>
>>
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