Ottawa

V・T・E Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

latitude: 45.41, longitude: -75.71

Browse map of Ottawa 45°24′36.00″ N, 75°42′36.00″ W

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Ottawa is a City in Ontario, Canada at latitude 45°24′36.00″ North, longitude 75°42′36.00″ West.

We're a local bunch working hard to improve the surrounding map, as well as helping out with Humanitarian mapping tasks.

Why not come down to one of our monthly meetups? We announce them on Meetup.com. Join us!

Welcome, New Editors

If you're new to Openstreetmap (we all were at one point :)), we would suggest the following:

• LearnOSM
• Stop by one of our meetups. We're eager to help you make your first edit!

Events

Local user group
OpenStreetMap Ottawa
Meetings
When:	At least once a month has been our goal. More is better:)
Where:	So far its been coffee shops around the city. (map)
Mailing list
mailing list – archive
Website
OSM - Ottawa Meetup Group
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Mapping Parties/Meetups

Everyone is welcome!

We've been using a Meetup group to organize the events and to help get visibility with folks who might not know about Openstreetmap.

History

Since October 2013, we've been trying to meet once a month at local coffee shops to map, chat and learn/share about Openstreetmap.

• List of past meetups.

Sponsors

If you'd like to sponsor Ottawa's OSM Meetups, please get in touch with <@DenisCarriere>.

Local Map Edits and Mappers

• Latest edits around Ottawa
• Local Mappers: Meetup group members, local wiki editors, Contributors Map

Links

• Openstreetmap main map page
• Openstreetmap main wiki page
• Openstreetmap map tags &mdash - You'll want to bookmark this!

Getting Help

It's always best to start with the mailing lists.

Introduction to Spatial

• MapSchool provides a brief introduction to many of the main topics in spatial/GIS/mapping.

How to Access OSM Data

Openstreetmap is really about the data. What you see rendered on the main map page is only a fraction of what is in the database; many objects/tags are not rendered, but can still be queried. That's what makes OSM powerful!

Data Extracts

These great sites provide data extracts (think cookie cutting the data for a particular area and make it available in numerous formats for consumption).

• Weekly OSM Metro Extracts from Mapzen

Data API's

• Overpass API
• overpass turbo
  • turbo overpass webpage to generate queries and documentation

Data Tools

• add data tools/command line utilities here

Ideas/Thoughts

Ideas/thoughts on growing community and reaching out to other groups/folks who would find this useful/interesting.

Useful info for Ottawa mappers

Status

The coverage of Ottawa is fairly complete. Much of the content has come from CanVec, but there is also original content from various contributors.

As of April 2017, validation of imported City of Ottawa building shape data is under way.

Cycling facilities

Different ways

These are the most important tags to add. Tags such as speed and parking in the on-street facilities are important for determining levels of traffic stress.

	Photo	Comments	Tags (with example)
Paved Multi-use paths (MUPs)	Example: Sentier des Voyageurs Pathway	These are paved, shared pathways. They may be on either NCC or municipal property (path signage is a helpful clue as to ownership)	bicycle=yes centreline=yes foot=yes highway=path name=Ottawa River Pathway Relations: Cycle Route Ottawa River Pathway
Unpaved MUPs	Example: NCC Greenbelt West	These are wide well-maintained paths suitable for walking and cycling. Most, but not all, are stone dust pathways, though some are dirt or grass surface. Ownership may be NCC or municipal.	bicycle=yes foot=yes highway=path name=Pinecrest Creek Relations: Cycle Route Pinecrest Creek
Separated bicycle facilities	Example Laurier -- note that there are two separate ways; one for the westbound, one for eastbound O'Connor -- note that there is just one way, since northbound and southbound are side-by-side	These are not typical on-street painted bicycle lanes. For facilities that have some sort of separation between the regular roadway and the cycling facility, make a separate way for the bicycle facility.	foot=no highway=cycleway name=O'Connor Bikeway surface=paved Relation: Cycle Route O'Connor Bikeway
On-street bicycle lanes, with or without adjacent on-street parking	Percy	These just add attributes to regular roads. Use this as an authoritative guide.	For roads with lanes on both sides: cycleway=lane For roads with a lane on just one side (for example, divided roads) cycleway:left=lane or cycleway:right=lane If on-street parking is present use: parking:lane:right=parallel (for the right side of the road) or parking:lane:left=parallel (for the left side of the road)
Contra-flow bicycle lanes	Buffered contra-flow lane on Garland	These lanes travel against the flow of roads that are one-way for motor vehicles. They may be protected, buffered, or just paint.	For roads with contraflow track on the right: cycleway:right=opposite_track For roads with contraflow track on the left: cycleway:left=opposite_track
Roads with shared facilities (sharrows, shared bus lanes, advisory bike lanes, etc.)	"Super" sharrow on the Bank St. Bridge Northbound Carling just east of Preston	Not sure what to do about 'suggested bicycle lanes'.	For sharrows: cycleway=shared_lane For bus lanes: cycleway=share_busway
Desire lines	Desire line through park	These are well-worn but unmaintained paths, typically following a direct line between two destinations.	highway=path path=desire surface=ground
Mountain biking and hiking trails	Trail on NCC property	Paths are typically narrow and may include challenging terrain, exposed roots or rocks, making them unsuitable for certain bikes. They typically follow an indirect line for recreational purposes.	cycleway=MTB

Relations

When possible, put as many common tags in a relation instead of in the individual way tags.

There are three types of relations related to cycling routes.

	Comments	Tags
NCC MUP	These are regional bicycle routes (rcn)	name=Ottawa River Pathway name:fr=Sentier de la Rivière des Outaouais operator=NCC route=bicycle type=route rcn=yes rcn_ref=Ottawa River Pathway
City of Ottawa MUP	These are local routes (lcm)	name=Trillium Pathway name:fr=(not sure what the translation is) operator=City of Ottawa route=bicycle type=route lcn=yes lcm_ref=3
City of Ottawa suggested bicycle network	The master reference is from the City of Ottawa open data	route=bicycle type=route name=City of Ottawa suggested bicycle network

Other things about cycling

Items on the routes that are good to tag.

Description	Tags
Garbage cans	amenity=waste_basket
Benches	amenity=bench
Water fountains	amenity=drinking_fountain
Repair stations	amenity=bicycle_repair_station
Bicycle parking	bicycle_parking=loops capacity=12 Consider the following guide: Key:bicycle parking
Car parking	amenity=parking Consider the following guide: Parking#Cars .26 motor vehicle parking
Lighting	lit=yes or lit=no
Surface types	If it is paved (regardless of condition), set surface=paved. If it is badly paved, add smoothness=bad. See Surface and Smoothness for more details. This is an example of a badly paved surface: Badly paved surface
Flooding	Use this tag only for paths that flood every year: flood_prone=yes
French Translation	Add the following tags: name:fr=Sentier des Voyageurs
Intersection Tags	(to be filled in; consider stop signs, dismount signs, crosswalks, cross rides, etc).
Winter clearing	(to be decided)

Other information

Cycle routes

Good cycle map renderers:

http://www.opencyclemap.org

Bilingual street names

The majority of streets in Ottawa are tagged with name=XXXX street therefore

Please tag roads in the city of Ottawa with:

• name:fr=rue XXXX
• name=XXXX Street

A rule set for Maperitive is available that displays the French version of the street name.

properties
	map-background-color	: #F1EEE8
	map-background-opacity	: 1
	map-sea-color : #B5D0D0
	font-weight : bold
	font-family : Verdana Bold
	text-halo-width : 25%
	text-halo-opacity : 0.75
	text : name:fr

Do not abbreviate street endings. Note that the French equivalent of an English street type is USUALLY as follows:

English	French
Alley
Avenue	avenue
Bay	passage
Boulevard	boulevard
Burn
Circle	cercle
Court	cour
Crescent	croissant
Drive	promenade
Driveway	promenade
Gate	porte
Green	vert
Grove	bois
Heights	plateau
Key
Lane	ruelle
Loop	cercle
Mews
Park	parc
Parkway	promenade
Path
Place	place
Private	privé
Road	chemin
Row	rang
Square	carré
Street	rue
Terrace	terrace
Trail	sentier
Walk	cours
Way	voie
Wood

See also http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/bylaw/a_z/municipal_addressing_en.html which is the authority See also http://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/public-consultations/municipal-addressing/street-name-and-address-changes

Suggested Tasks

Ideas

Mark completed tasks with {{Done}}, and it will look like

• Talk to local Geocacher groups
  • [ ] NCR region, the group is called Canada’s Capital Cachers.
• [ ] Others to be added

Wiki

• [ ] Content of remainder page has not been updated since late 2013. Need to review and clean up.
• [ ] Review all links on page.
• [Add links to sidebar
  • [ ] Validation/local mappers/extracts
• [ ] Add mapillary llnk
• clean up Ontario Province Page.

Data Import

Ottawa Data Import - City of Ottawa Dataset by type, license and permission, import plan

• See all subpages (automated).

To Be Cleaned Up

This sections needs to be reviewed and cleaned up. Hasn't been touched since 2013:(

Major construction projects

The LRT construction needs to be tracked in OSM. In particular, the long-term ramp closures should be reflected in the map.

Arteries

Highway 417, Queensway

This is fairly well mapped in both directions as one-way ways. Off and on ramps are largely missing. (These should be tagged as below)

On-ramp example

highway=motorway_link
name=Highway 417 Eastbound 

Off-ramp example

highway=motorway_link
name=Sparks Street
ref=Exit 123 / Sparks Street

When ramps split / merge use more-specific descriptions where applicable

Mapped west to construction in Arnprior. Mapped all the way to Montreal in the east bound direction.

Highway 416, Veterans Memorial

Mapped south bound only (Oct 28th, 2006), except for the northernmost section that joins up with the 417.

Noted that the coastline along the seaway crossing includes the bridge crossing to the US at the end of the 416, where it joins the 401 as a land bridge. Its a big bridge, but not that big! The coastline is an automatically loaded coastline. If we fix it will it simply be unfixed at some point??

Highway 17

Mapped from the 417 split out to Trim Road in both directions. Missing on and off ramps at most locations.

Bridges

Reference: List of bridges in Ottawa

All bridges are separate ways except where noted in the table as being "via" another road.

• Type:
  • R = railway
  • V = motorvehicle
  • T = train
  • B = bus

• Grey entries have not been mapped yet

Bridges

Waterway	Name	Type*	Connecting		Notes
Ottawa River	OCRR	R	Vydon Acres, Quebec	Pontiac-Station, Quebec
	Champlain Bridge	V	Island Park Drive, Westboro	Place Samuel-de-Champlain, Aylmer, Gatineau, Quebec	NCC owned.
	Prince of Wales Bridge	R	Bayview	Hull, Gatineau, Quebec
	Chaudière Bridge	V	Booth Street, Lebreton Flats	Rue Eddy, Hull
	Portage Bridge	V	Wellington Street, Lebreton Flats	Boulevard Maisonneuve, Hull
	Interprovincial (Alexandra) Bridge	V	St. Patrick Street and Murray Street, Lower Town	Boulevard St-Laurent, Hull
	Macdonald-Cartier Bridge	V	King Edward Avenue, Lower Town	Autoroute de la Gatineau (Autoroute 5), Hull	Done, Quebec bound only
Rideau River	Sussex Drive	V	Lower Town	New Edinburgh	via Sussex Drive
	Minto Bridges	V	King Edward, Lower Town	Union Street, New Edinburgh
	St. Patrick Bridge	V	St. Patrick Street, Lower Town	Beechwood Avenue, Vanier
	Cummings Bridge	V	Rideau Street, Sandy Hill	Montreal Road, Vanier
	Hurdman Bridge	V	Sandy Hill	Eastway Gardens	via the Queensway, Highway 417.
	Pedestrian bridge	P	Algonquin College's (former) Rideau Campus, Ottawa East	Hurdman Park
	Transitway	B	Lees Transitway Station	Hurdman Transitway Station.
	G. McIlraith Bridge	V	Main Street, Old Ottawa South	Smyth Road, Alta Vista.
	Billings Bridge	V	Old Ottawa South	Alta Vista	via Bank Street
	G. Dunbar Bridge	V	Carleton University	Riverside Park	via Bronson Avenue
	O-Train bridge	T	Carleton stop	Confederation stop
	Heron Road Bridge	V	Baseline Road, Courtland Park	Heron Road, Alta Vista	Also crosses the Rideau Canal
	Hog's Back Road	V	Rideau View	Riverside Park	via Hog's Back Road Owned by the NCC Also crosses over the Rideau Canal Partly mapped?
	OCRR Railway Bridge	V	Merivale	Mooney's Bay
	Michael J. E. Sheflin Bridge	V	Clearview	Airport-Uplands	via Hunt Club Road
	Nicolls Island Road	V	Nicolls Island	The mainland in Gloucester
	Bridge Street	V	Bridge Street, Manotick	Mitch Owens Road, Osgoode
	Regional Road 6	V	Connects Roger Stevens Drive, Kars	Snake Island Road, Osgoode
	Highway 416	V	Reevcraig	Sabourins Crossing
	Regional Road 44	V	Becketts Landing	Kemptville
	Burritts Rapids Bridge	V	Donnelly Drive, Burritts Rapids	County Road 22, North Grenville
West Branch of the Rideau River	Barnsdale Road	V	Nepean	Manotick
	Bridge Street	V	Downtown Manotick	Long Island	duplicate of Bridge st, above?
Rideau Canal	Plaza Bridge	V	Wellington Street, Centre Town	Rideau Street, By Ward Market
	Mackenzie King Bridge	V	Albert and Slater Streets, Centre Town	Waller Street, Sandy Hill	The transitway also uses this bridge
	Laurier Bridge	V	Centre Town	University of Ottawa	via Laurier Avenue.
	Pedestrian Bridge	V	Centre Town	Ottawa University Campus Transitway Station
	Queensway	V	Glebe and Centretown	Old Ottawa East	via Highway 417.
	Pretoria Bridge	V	Elgin Street, Glebe	Hawthorne Avenue, Old Ottawa East	This is a Lift bridge
	Bank Street Bridge	V	Glebe	Old Ottawa South
	Bronson Avenue	V	Glebe	Carleton University
	Rail tunnel	T	Carleton station	Carling station	just west of Dows Lake Used by O-Train
	Heron Road Bridge	V			see above
	Hog's Back Road	V			see above

Primary Roads

These are roads dividing neighborhoods.

• Carling (80%?)
• Bank
• Main
• Bronson
• Airport Parkway
• others?

Neighbourhoods

Neighbourhood mapping state. List from Wikipedia:List_of_Ottawa_neighbourhoods.

Central

Central Neighborhoods

Area	Neighborhood	%	Notes	Area Boundaries
Downtown	Byward Market
	Centre Town
	Centre Town West
	Downtown	5%	Need to photo street signs.
	Glebe	5%	Need to photo street signs.
	Old Ottawa East	90%	Need to photo street signs. Missing a few lane ways, north of the queensway & rideau gardens, SW of main St. Paul's grounds / parks Immaculata grounds community churchs Calvary Baptist Church Holy Canadian Martyrs Peace Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church Wesley United Church Holy Ghost Portuguese Community Centre Church of the Ascension Sainte-Famille / Sagrada familia
	Old Ottawa South	30%	Need to photo street signs. (some done on the initial bike ride)
	Lebreton Flats		Need to update for recent construction.
	Lowertown	0%	North of Sandy hill (N of Rideau, East of King Edward)
	Sandy Hill	80%	Need to photo street signs. All streets west of King Edward were missed. (UofO, and roads north of)
East of Downtown	Castle Heights
	Finter Quarries
	Forbes
	Lees Avenue
	Lindenlea
	Manor Park
	New Edinburgh
	Rockcliffe Park
	Overbrook
	Vanier
	Viscount Alexander Park
South of Downtown	Airport-Uplands
	Alta Vista
	Billings Bridge
	Confederation Heights
	Eastway Gardens
	Ellwood
	Hawthorne Meadows
	Heron Gate
	Hunt Club
	Hunt Club Chase
	Hunt Club Estate
	Hunt Club Woods
	Mooney's Bay
	Riverside Park
	Riverview
	Sheffield Glen
	South Keys
West of Downtown	Bel-Air Heights
	Bel-Air Park
	Braemar Park
	Britannia
	Britannia Bay
	Carlington
	Civic Hospital
	Copeland Park
	Courtland Park
	Glabar Park
	Hampton Park
	Highland Park
	Hintonburg
	Kenson Park
	Lincoln Heights
	McKellar Heights
	McKellar Park
	Mechanicsville
	Michelle Heights
	Ottawa West
	Queensway Terrace North
	Queensway
	Redwood
	Rideau View
	Tunney's Pasture		Needs some updating for new parking regime.
	Westboro	10%	Need to photo street signs. Missing some privates N of transitway, E of churchhill
	Whitehaven
	Woodroffe North
Further West of Downtown (The former city of Nepean)	Arbeatha Park
	Arlington Woods
	Barrhaven
	Bayshore
	Bell's Corners
	Borden Farm
	Boyce
	Briar Green
	Carleton Heights
	Cedarhill Estates
	Centrepointe	75%	Need to photo street signs. Do outside the Centrepointe loop, inside is now mapped. Do centrepointe park foot paths, pond, path to transitway & skate park (Note when comparing vs. google maps that the new developement west of centrepointe is missing... yeah for something not of duplicated effort!)
	City View
	Clearview
	Country Place
	Craig Henry
	Crestview
	Crystal Bay
	Crystal Beach
	Davidson Heights
	Fallowfield
	Fisher Glen
	Fisher Heights
	Fraservale
	Graham Park
	Grenfell Glen
	Hearts Desire
	Hillsdale
	Jockvale
	Knollsbrook
	Leslie Park
	Longfields
	Lynwood Village
	Manordale
	Meadowlands
	The Meadows
	Merivale Gardens
	Navaho
	Nepean
	Orchard Estates
	Parkwood Hills
	Pheasant Run
	Pineglen
	Qualicum
	Rideau Glen
	Rocky Point
	Ryan Farm
	Shirleys Bay
	Skyline
	Tanglewood
	Trend Village
	Twin Elm
	Westcliffe Estates

West

Kanata and surrounding communities, west of Highway 416.

• Bell's Corner
• Lynwood Village
• Kanata
• Morgan's Grant (Kanata)
• Shirley's Brook (Kanata)
• Bridlewood (Kanata)
• Emerald Meadows (Kanata)
• Katimavik (Kanata)
• Stittsville
• Carp (West Carleton)
• Dunrobin (West Carleton)
• Constance Bay (West Carleton)
• Fitzroy Harbour (and provincial park) (West Carleton)
• Galetta (West Carleton)
• Kinburn (West Carleton)
• McLaren's Landing (West Carleton)
• Shepherd's Grove (West Carleton)

East

Orleans and surrounding communities, east of the Hichway 416/16 split.

• Orleans (community names??)
• Blackburn Hamlet

South

• Barhaven (community names??)
• Old Barhaven
• Stonehaven
• Cedar Hill Estates
• Orchard Estates
• Riverside South
• Manotick Station

Surrounding Communities

These are way down the list but if you happen to be driving around...

• Navan
• Greely
• Cumberland
• Metcalfe
• Osgoode
• Cars
• North Gower
• Others...

Waterways

The river and canals need to be added. I haven't managed to get the landsat plugin for josm working. With that it should be fairly easy to do...

Parks and Trails

A list of all parks in Ottawa is available at http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/parks_recreation/parks/locations/all_locations_en.html

this needs to be transcribed here (or into its own page) so we can track which parks have been mapped.

All paths within an Ottawa park should be considered multi use ie cycling permitted unless signed cycles prohibited. This follows a conversation with an Ottawa city official about why some paths in parks where marked down as cycle in their cycle map and other identical ones weren't. The signage on the paths was the same.

Please tag NCC and Ottawa City cycle paths as highway=path, foot=yes, bicycle=yes

Please tag signed cycle routes as bicycle=designated

Please tag paved hard shoulders as shoulder:access:bicycle=yes shoulder:surface=paved

There are rule sets available to render these correctly in Maperitive etc.

(see also: Gatineau, below)

Sports Fields

ultimate, soccer, hockey arenas, etc.

Urban Path System

• canal
• others?

Public Transport

• O-train
• Trains to Montreal and Toronto (VIA Rail)?
• Abandoned trackways?
• Bus routes

Campuses

The Reading University map created by TomChance is really beautiful...

Other Projects

There are numerous validation errors on the map as it stands. They show up in JOSM if you download a piece of the map, then click on the Validation button at the bottom of the Validation window on the right of the window. There are also other tools available. I (TomT5454) have begun a project to clean up as much as possible, leaving most of the rest for investigation. Typical of the latter: missing power poles, culverts, bridges, or nothing where waterways cross highways, etc. I propose to move in manageably-sized chunks .06 degrees wide east-to-west and .04 degrees high north-to-south. Starting chunk was at the northwest corner of the area to be covered. People are welcome to join in this effort. People can coordinate either by sending me an E-mail identifying the chunk they are taking and a subsequent note when they are finished, or updating this Wiki directly.

• N 45.44 to 45.40, W 75.98 to 75.92 done 2012-12-02. Some water-road crossings need checking to see if a culvert is present.
• N 45.44 to 45.40, W 75.92 to 75.86 sort of done 2012-12-02. Aylmer administrative boundaries still embed segments of other objects. Need new administrative boundaries, given that Aylmer is now part of Gatineau. Need surveys to pick up road names, ensure correct placement of some neighbourhoods.
• N 45.44 to 45.40, W 75.86 to 75.80 and 75.80 to 75.74 done 2012-12-16. Most common problem was roads terminating on area boundaries. On Ottawa side, some duplication between Canvec 6 and Canvec 7.

Crossing the River, Gatineau and Environs

• Ferry Crossing from Fitzroy Harbour, ON to Quyon PQ

Gatineau Park

• also the myriad trails for bike, cross-country, and hiking

See also

• Ontario
• Gatineau

External Links

• http://ottawa.wikispot.org/OpenStreetMap
• BBBike @ Ottawa - a cycle route planner for Ottawa

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