[Ottawa_users] September meeting and OSM event

Wed Sep 9 11:00:09 EDT 2009

Is there an effort to mass geocode (and store) some of these features
and feed them to OSM. Although walking is great fun perhaps walking
could be used to verify the locations of batch geocoding results.

For instance there are batch geocoder services that can consume
spreadsheets with adresses (http://batchgeocoder.com/).

And there are loads of hidden address lists around for city locations
and sites....

Ottawa's parks:
http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/parks_recreation/parks/locations/all_loca
tions_en.html

Fire Stations:
http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/fire/stations/index_en.html

Libraries (I did compile this list a few years back, might be able to
track it down):
http://www.biblioottawalibrary.ca/explore/branches/loc_e.html#branch

List of Education Borads:
http://www.ottawa.ca/externlinks_en.shtml#education

        Sample list of schools from OCDSB: (needs some normalizing):
http://www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca/cc_mo_Our_Schools.asp

Some pubs, not all, are listed here:
http://beermapping.com/location-lookup/?locname=&city=ottawa&country=Can
ada&state=&zip=&t=

Trails: Ahhh my favourite... this is a great example of something that
is hard to come by.... I met an artist that wanted to sketch out maps of
shortcuts in Ottawa... the artist would lay interactive art out on these
paths for people to enjoy...  Shortcuts have also been used in city
planning to determine where trail hardening might be useful.

Anyhow, just some thoughts...

If you plan an event let the list know.

For a presentation I would love to learn how to get data dumps from OSM
to be used in a GIS. Currently i feel that OSM is tied up in its own
data format without easy conversion tools. I hope to be proved
ill-informed.

Cheers

________________________________

	From: ottawa_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:ottawa_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Teresa
Baldwin
	Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 09:30
	To: Ottawa (Canada) Local Chapter List
	Subject: Re: [Ottawa_users] September meeting and OSM event

	Such as prominent buildings, schools, pubs, walking trails -
since newer ones wouldn't be in the NRCAN data, and the like. If road
names have changed recently, they would also have to be corrected. Some
buildings and paths are already included, but Majors Hills Park, for
example, does not have many paths in it. 

	Teresa

	2009/9/9 Sampson, David <David.Sampson at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>

		What type of data are we trying to map?

		My understanding is that in Canada the full road network
is provided by NRCAN to OSM. So would the purpose be to map other
features?  Such as?

		Cheers

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[mailto:ottawa_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Teresa
Baldwin
			Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 08:58 

			To: Ottawa (Canada) Local Chapter List
			Subject: Re: [Ottawa_users] September meeting
and OSM event

			Sorry about the delay. 

			Yes, you were right, David. The OSM person from
BC is not able to make it and as such, I don't really have any
presenters on the topic. I could do a short talk, but I think Richard
Weait's talk from FOSSLC's SummerCamp was much better. 

			Are people interested in a mapping party?
Everyone head out to a certain area with maps from walking-papers.org or
their GPS, then we meet back at an area with wifi and update the map
together. 
			If anyone is interested in the mapping party,
let me know and I'll plan it for the end of the month.

			Cheers,
			Teresa

			2009/9/9 Sampson, David
<David.Sampson at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>

				Any update on Septembers OSM event?

				I might have saw a post to the BC OSGEO
list saying someone from OSM was
				not going to make it to Ottawa. Was this
our person?

				Any updates?

				Cheers

				> -----Original Message-----
				> From:
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				>
[mailto:ottawa_users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of

				> Scott Mitchell
				> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:20
				> To: Ottawa (Canada) Local Chapter List

				> Subject: Re: [Ottawa_users] September
meeting and OSM event
				>
				>
				> I too can do the 3rd, or later in the
month.  I'm away in between.
				>
				> Given that we met pretty recently, I
suggest that if a bunch
				> of people pipe up soon that they would
like to meet on the
				> 3rd, I'm happy to book it -- but if
that doesn't happen, I
				> suggest that late in the month, with a
potential OSM tie-in,
				> be the plan.
				>
				> Cheers,
				> Scott
				>
				> On 27-Aug-09, at 09:50 , Philippe
Vachon wrote:
				>
				> > Hi Dave,
				> >
				> > Early September is going to be
pretty awful for me. I'd be able to
				> > make a meeting September 3rd, but
that'd be about it until later in
				> > the month.
				> >
				> > Cheers,
				> > Phil
				> >
				> > On 27-Aug-09, at 9:46 AM, Sampson,
David wrote:
				> >
				> >>
				> >> Hey Folks,
				> >>
				> >> Another month almost done.... an
gone is our summer weather
				> >> apparently.
				> >>
				> >> Just wondering what the plan is for
September as my schedule books
				> >> up...
				> >>
				> >> Last meeting we chatted about.
				> >>
				> >> meeting: early September
				> >> Open Street map event : late
September.
				> >>
				> >>
				> >> Any more details or thoughts?
				> >>
				> >> Cheers
				> >>
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