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we can has street names

Pierre Béland reminded the Canadian OSM group of the GeoBase WMS, which has all the NRN road names in it. Here’s my neighbourhood’s OpenStreetMap data with the road names overlaid. Pierre Béland reminded the Canadian OSM group of the GeoBase … Continue reading

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a minor revelation about road segments

I’m still learning how Toronto encodes its roads – and whether this is a common practice. Between intersections, roads are stored as polyline segments. Kennedy Road (blue) and Eglinton Ave E (red) are shown below as a series of road … Continue reading

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