[Talk-ca] Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada Data

[John Marshall]

Hi Anatolijs,

Good luck. If you need any help OSM Ottawa would love to help.

Cheers


John
(OSM user rps333)

John Marshall






On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Anatolijs Venovcevs <
gistech at happyvalley-goosebay.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
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> 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
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> 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.
>
>
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> 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 It looks to me approximately five years out of date and the town has been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.
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> 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 no longer represents reality on the ground.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.
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> Thank you,
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> *Anatolijs Venovcevs*
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