[Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires

[john whelan]

I think she pulled stat can address data for Toronto from GCODP.

Cheerio John

On 5 May 2016 at 14:55, Begin Daniel <jfd553 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I did not find any buildings (except those from Canvec and GeoBase) in the
> GCODP.
>
> May Mojgan got it from somewhere else? …
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> *From:* john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* May-05-16 14:04
> *To:* Begin Daniel
> *Cc:* James; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires
>
>
>
> Mojgan recently imported some Stat Can data through the Government of
> Canada Oren Data portal.
>
> Cheerio John
>
>
>
> On 5 May 2016 at 13:47, Begin Daniel <jfd553 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> As far I can tell from the imagery available (Bing & Mapbox), the data
> from Geobase & Canvec are not up-to-date, neither for roads nor for
> buildings, and I do not see who in Ottawa could have them, StatCan?
>
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> *From:* James [mailto:james2432 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* May-05-16 12:42
> *To:* john whelan
> *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Fort McMurray forest fires
>
>
>
> They may have a city GIS team, but is that data publically available?
> Nope. Heck their "server" might even be toast as most of the city is going
> up in flames. Better to have data available, then none at all.
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 12:36 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I'm not so sure of how much value this is.  HOT doesn't activate until it
> gets a request from the ground for that reason.  If it does then we get two
> tile systems over the same area.
>
> Fort McMurray almost certainly has a City GIS system that has details of
> every building, Ottawa certainly does.  The roads and highways are also
> available in CANVEC for firefighters etc.
>
> Cheerio John
>
>
>
> On 5 May 2016 at 11:45, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've created a task on my tasking manager for buildings in Fort McMurray.
> Tracing buildings can help us flag buildings affected by the fire
>
> http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/22
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:43 AM, John Marshall <rps333 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I will check with my contacts in my day job if they will release thier
> imagery.
>
> I know DigitalGlobe are tasking thier satellites over Fort Mac.
>
> John Marshall
>
> On May 5, 2016 11:39, "James" <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think we'll have to wait until the fire is put out before we get
> satelite imagery.
>
> What I can do is create a task on tasks.osmcanada.ca for Fort McMurray
> and we can trace buildings as they are not all there
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> As you are probably aware by now, a large portion of Fort McMurray,
> Alberta has been destroyed by forest fires.
>
> Is any freely licensed aerial imagery of the affected area available
> yet? Will the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team be creating a project
> for Fort McMurray?
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-ca mailing list
> Talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> 外に遊びに行こう！
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-ca mailing list
> Talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
>
>
>
> --
>
> 外に遊びに行こう！
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-ca mailing list
> Talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> 外に遊びに行こう！
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/attachments/20160505/17a3cb13/attachment.html>