Updated Invitation: Vancouver Island OpenStreetMap.org - Mapping Party @ Tue Aug 11 18:00 – 21:00 ([e-mail])

[Sam Vekemans-2]

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Vancouver Island OpenStreetMap.org - Mapping Party

Tue Aug 11 18:00 – 21:00
(Timezone: Pacific Time - Vancouver)
Central Library square, Victoria BC (map)
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Thanks,
That's great to hear.

Ya, that's the great power of OpenStreetMap.org, it's not technically possible to know whats going on everywhere. Although i don't know who Peter Batty is, I'm sure he did a great job at sharing whats going on with OpenStreetMap.

For everyone, feel free to join in the talk-ca discussion list, as i don't want to be filling up the OSGeo mailing list, with OSM updates.
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

As we all do this on a volunteer basis, we do our best to try to answer every and all questions that people ask. I also realize that going through the archives, it might be hard to follow. So I'm happy to answer specific questions that people might have.

On August 11th I'll be hosting a mapping party, where we will be able to go over in detail the progress so far, and how others can help.
My personal goal is to get Vancouver Island mapped out as much as possible, with all the data imported that is currently available to us to use. In that process, more mistakes will be found, and the actual import process will be perfected.
By actually getting together in person, we can answer questions and brainstorm ideas that haven't been thought of yet. And doing so, could change the entire process of looking at it.

The purpose of this meeting is to meet others who are also interested in making Vancouver Island the best mapped place on earth :) ... since it cant be done alone, it's a team effort :)

Look forward to seeing whoever can make it.

Cheers,
Sam Vekemans
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Kyle, Martin <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi Sam:

I am sorry that we were not able to get the Telecom working for you

during our OSGeo BC meeting. We also had some projector problems that

day and so we had a low tech meeting.

Fortunately, Peter Batty was in town and he had been to the recent

OpenStreetMap event. He gave the group an overview of the program and we

look forward to your updates, along with those below, in the future.

We had good presentations from both Tyler Mitchell, on OSGeo in general

and a good presentation by Mehdi Bokhari on the work of PromoteGIS.

In all, I believe we had 26 people attend and some rousing

discussions...good pizza and Andreas Matheus, of Secure Dimensions in

Munich, supported the group with the Octoberfest Beer.

I will update the wiki in the days to come and we can start planning

ideas for a December meeting.

Martin

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From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of

Sam Vekemans

Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:56 PM

To: Kyle, Martin; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap

Subject: Re: OS Geo Meeting

Well thats fine,

A quick email summary then.

1 -OpenStreetMap foundation is going to be 3 years old in August. With

over 100,000 contributors, Happy Birthday!

2 -Its made up of volunteers, with no direct financial gain, just in

the pride that we, the people of the world, are making a map that is

totally free for anyone to use and edit. :-)

3 - Garmin maps; Cycle routing; iphone map; 3d maps; SHP files;

wikiTravel maps; wikipedia maps etc. There is no limit to what

creative things people can make using the OSM database. :-)

4 So if you see where the map needs improvement, local mappers in the

area can help. What we do is have get-to-gethers, or mapping parties.

5 - join the [hidden email] discussion list, to see how you

can help.

6 - on aug 11th im hosting a Vancouver island OpenStreetMap party in

Victoria. All those interested are welcome to attend. I can show you

all in person the answers to many of your questions. (details will be

posted to the talk-ca list and on the wiki.)

Thats all for now,

Best,

Sam Vekemans

Across Canada Trails

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[Kaitlin Duck Sherwood]

There is a young man named Carson who put together a quite lovely site scraping info from Translink's site and repackaging it in a much more usable form:
   http://www.transitdb.ca/
(Translink is the transit system for the lower mainland.)

Carson has been keeping a very low profile because some third party asserts ownership of the geolocation of all the bus stops.  Seems to me that we should organize a mapping party to just go get the bus stop locations and numbers and put them into the public domain so that people like Carson can do their work unfettered. 

Question 1: Does anybody here have experience with mapping parties?

Question 2: Does anybody here have good connections to the Open Street Map project?  I presume that's where the data should go...


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[Michael Weisman]

Good ol' Translink.

I wrote a script a few years back that not only scrapes translink's
schedules, but also attempts to parse the stop names, geocode them,
and then create lines from the points and load the whole thing into
PostGIS. It worked pretty well, (maybe 80% accuracy) and did not use
translink's spatial data but resulted in a nasty gram from them, so I
haven't touched it in a couple years.

The source is on my website if you are interested in playing with it:
http://www.mweisman.com/geocode.zip. I have also documented the REST
API that translink's iPhone app uses
(http://www.mweisman.com/transit.html), but since this is not supposed
to be public, I have no idea what the terms of service are for the
data.

You may want to start by simply using the web-based editing tools to
add stops to OSM. May be easier than actually going around to every
stop on foot.

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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Kaitlin Duck Sherwood
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> There is a young man named Carson who put together a quite lovely site
> scraping info from Translink's site and repackaging it in a much more usable
> form:
>    http://www.transitdb.ca/
> (Translink is the transit system for the lower mainland.)
>
> Carson has been keeping a very low profile because some third party asserts
> ownership of the geolocation of all the bus stops.  Seems to me that we
> should organize a mapping party to just go get the bus stop locations and
> numbers and put them into the public domain so that people like Carson can
> do their work unfettered.
>
> Question 1: Does anybody here have experience with mapping parties?
>
> Question 2: Does anybody here have good connections to the Open Street Map
> project?  I presume that's where the data should go...
>
>
> --
> Kaitlin Duck Sherwood
>
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