[Talk-ca] Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada Data
Anatolijs Venovcevs
gistech at happyvalley-goosebay.com
Mon Apr 3 16:32:25 UTC 2017
Hello everyone,
I've been a longtime fan of Open Street Map but this is the first time I
ever decided to help contribute to it. I am the GIS technologist for the
Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada -
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/53.3085/-60.3463>
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/53.3085/-60.3463
It's a small, isolated community of approximately 8,100 people and I'm the
only one with any GIS training and experience. As a result, I'm responsible
for doing just about everything to assist the town in geospatial-related
functions and have a very tight budget and not a lot of time to them. One of
the things there's been a real interest in is developing some sort of a
basic interactive web map for the town's public information (zoning, water
and sewer lines, attractions for our tourist map, etc.). I'm planning on
using QGIS plugin qgis2web to do that and use an OpenStreetMap background.
Before I can do that, OpenStreetMap data for the town needs to be updated.
It looks to me approximately five years out of date and the town has been
experiencing a major boom in the last few years. Currently, the town has
possession of an updated street centerline network (digitized from 40 cm
resolution orthorectified Worldview 2 satellite imagery) and an up-to-date
civic number system with building footprints and parcels for recreational
spaces and etc. coming later this year. I'd like to share them with the OSM
community.
Before I do that, I'm looking for community buy-in for the project. I will
start with manually adding the new streets that have been built over the
last few years and correct any information within the town boundaries that
no longer represents reality on the ground. If that's ok with all of you,
I'd like to make the OSM web mapping for my corner of Canada a little
better.
Thank you,
Anatolijs Venovcevs
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