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OpenStreetMap is the free wiki world map. Free and editable. Unlike other maps, OpenStreetMap is completely created by people like you, and it's free for anyone to fix, update, download and use.
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- Collecting Data
- Importing Government Data
- Canada-Wide Subprojects
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- Canadian Best Practices
- What's with The Forests in Canada?
- Open Data
There is a mailing list set up for Canadian mappers. Most discussion about country-wide matters takes place there. Both official languages are welcome. Join the list here. There is also a chat room for Canadian mappers on OFTC's IRC network: irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm-ca. For more international discussions related to general mapping (in English only);...
GPS tracks perhaps the best way to collect data. When you go out on trips, take along your GPS device and upload your traces to OSM. Be sure that your GPS device is set not to lock traces to the copyrighted data stored in the device; the purpose of collecting traces is to create new, unencumbered data. Photo mappingis an efficient way to create det...
Since 2008, the federal government has released a wealth of geodata for use in OSM. The OSM community is at work completing the existing OSM content with the government data. Initial efforts were based on simple feature data from GeoBase, which includes administrative boundaries, place names, roads, and bodies of water. This import was mostly done ...
If you have a goal that you are working towards or one that you would like to see get done (and are maybe willing to get the ball rolling) then add it to the list here, create a section where it can be coordinated and tracked, and a way of measuring progress.
Building Outlines with Statistics Canada
Stats Canada has released building outlines under the federal government license. This is the associated import plan. Canada Building Import
Building Canada 2020 Initiative and mapping project
Building Canada 2020 Initiative (BC2020i) was a community-led initiative with the vision to map all buildings in Canada on OpenStreetMap by the year 2020. The initiative has become Canada/Building_Canada_2020. Simple information on buildings (geolocation, building footprint, full address and type of use) is of major societal value. This information, however, is often lacking in some areas or not completely accessible on a single open data platform. Creating a nation-wide, freely accessible an...
Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada
This project appears to have become abandoned in late 2017 and/or has morphed into something approximated by Canada/Building_Canada_2020, above. Note Stats Canada is funded 1st April to March 31st. There is work being done in the background by Stats Canada and more open data buildings are expected to be released shortly. 2018/10/21 Former project documentation
See Map Features for worldwide tagging guidelines, and Canadian tagging guidelinesfor those specific to Canada. Canada has a wide range of data that can be imported. So if you are local and on the ground the best place to start is checking the interfaces between the imported data and the data that was in place before. Typically you'll find that imp...
The squared off sections of forest in Canada are the result of the ongoing CanVec data import. CanVec tiles were broken up into squares called the NTSgrid to better manage the data import. If you see a forest that's squared off with a empty section beside it, it's most likely that that grid has not been imported yet.
Open Data catalogs can be found here Note not all Open Data aligns with the OpenStreetMap licence. In 2024 the OSM Licensing Working Group (LWG) approved quite a few new regional open data licenses. Taken from the OSM Foundation's wiki, the following licenses have been deemed compatible with OSM, and data under them can be imported. 1. OGL Canada 2...
Hi. I just created an openstreetmap ID, and then tried to associate it with my OpenID (first time use of OpenID) associated with my gmail account. I did confirm the original ID with email, but the OpenID dialog was like a loop -- it wanted me to log in to my regular ID, but my regular ID does the following: On www.openstreetmap.org, click log in
I can not log in to my account on openstreetmap. Is has bean for some mounth. Have try, internet explore, firefox, google chrome, on windows 8 And, firefox, google chrome, chromium, on ubuntu
2 OpenStreetMap account. 2.1 OpenStreetMap working data (nodes, ways, relations) 2.2 GPS tracks; 2.3 Forum; 2.4 Help question and answer site; 2.5 Many other apps... 3 Mailing lists; 4 Wiki (what you're currently reading) 5 SVN access (OSM software) 6 JOSM-SVN access; 7 Why not just one account? - Single sign on; 8 See also
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On the OpenStreetMap website, click “sign up” in the top right corner of the page. You should see a new page that looks like this: There are five boxes on this page that you need to fill in to register an account with OSM. Enter your email address in the first two boxes. You should enter the same email address in both boxes.
