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We need to talk about the Canvec elephant in the room. 73. 2142. September 21, 2024. Getting a government data license reviewed for use in OSM. 2. 91. September 15, 2024. Esri aerial imagery out of date for Guelph, Ontario.
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Stats Canada has released building outlines under the...
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General talk. General discussion about OSM that don’t fall under any other category. For help and support questions please check # help-and-support. 12038.
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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...
May 28, 2018 · 1. There are definitely some advantages, for example we (see below) run local infrastructure to support our community, negotiate availability of aerial imagery and other data with authorities and in general bang the drum for OSM. But that naturally depends a bit on who is running the show.
May 6, 2020 · However, and contrarily to some European country, there is might not be a local OSM community in each municipality in Canada, but only mappers sporadically adding local content from time to time. Some easy-to-use tool or Overpass queries can help identify and contact these local mappers. The local import manager must ...
Sep 3, 2024 · This project will be managed like all other OSM projects in Canada: by the local community using this wiki, the talk-ca mailing list and the OSM Canada Task Manager to coordinate various efforts. If there are lots of volunteers and/or funding becomes available to do additional things, more elaborate coordination (a project steering committee ...
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Dec 30, 2022 · Introducing the Communities Tab on OSM.org. There’s a new way to find and connect with OSM communities. In the upper right corner of OSM.org, you can now see a “Communities” tab that links to a single, centralized location that lists formal Local Chapters, as well as the other OSM communities. Given how many communities there are and how ...
