[Talk-ca] Ottawa - OpenData - Map Feature Catelogue

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 04:02:05 BST 2010


Anyway,
I got bored (I also wanted to see how they classify the features)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Am70fsptsPF2dHUxNU9ON1lxZGNGTkc5NTNFT2JERXc&hl=en&output=html

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am70fsptsPF2dHUxNU9ON1lxZGNGTkc5NTNFT2JERXc&hl=en

It's an open Document so anyone can edit it and use it as they like :)

I'll be filtering it down to better themes, and then adding the
appropriate OSM tags using the osm-standards.   (slightly different
than the SchemaTroll 2.01 Standards im developing :) .. but close.

Cheers,
Sam




On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm asking as the data will 'eventually' be available, it already is
> ok to use for other OpenMaps projects, and it's available for Garmin
> Devices already. Just needs to be converted. ... and tags need to be
> matched up :)
>
> If knowone has seen, or gone through the catelogue to match up the
> features, that's no prob, i'll do that myself :)
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
> P.S. Ya, I just find it funny about the cyclists. .. here in Victoria,
> the proprietary map company Davenport Maps Ltd
> http://www.gvcc.bc.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=11
>  and so, they are not to excited about a competition map being
> created that would potentially cut-out from the revenue that these
> maps generate, which gets put back to the Organization.
>
> Fortunately however, the city of Nanaimo has their data for bicycle
> infrastructure available, so it's easy to convert it to OSM format,
> and convert to GPX and use it as an overlay and to include the
> cycleway=lane tag, then convert it to garmin map as an overlay.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:01 AM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm not certain what the point would be if the licensing doesn't line up.
>>
>> What would be nice would be if some one could take one or two of the
>> data sets, flip it into OSM format and email it to me.  That way I can
>> merge it with a copy of the cities OSM data on a USB stick and show a
>> couple of local politicians that it's doable and the advantages of it
>> rather than having a different interface and app for looking for
>> drinking fountains or park benches. They seem to respond better to
>> pretty pictures rather than words.
>>
>> Gossip wise there was a presentation last night at city hall I found
>> out about three hours before hand.  It was about Velo-City Global 2010
>> Conference in Europe attended by Gatineau, Ottawa and NCC to look at
>> cycle lanes etc and to see if we could emulate them.  Apparently the
>> city had 384 kms of cycle lanes three years ago when they printed
>> their map they have since added another 200 kms that don't appear on
>> their printed mae.  Also it was mentioned that there isn't one map
>> that shows Gatineau's, Ottawa's and NCC's cycle paths / lanes etc
>> together.   The audience was mainly cyclists at least one of whom was
>> after maps for their GARMIN devices.  Perfect fit for OSM and so I
>> made a small pitch as a comment.  Hopefully we should at least get
>> some additional contributors.
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
>> On 22 September 2010 17:44, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> hi all,
>>> Just wondering if anyone has gone through the 'available' data from
>>> the catelogue and matched up the features to it's coorisponding osm
>>> tag, and made it in chart form.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sam
>>>
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