Ok so Brent threw a wrench at me... sorry for the verbal diarrhea... lol :)<div><br></div><div><a href="http://geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/en/product/search.do?id=28954">http://geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/en/product/search.do?id=28954</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Ok, so we have a website... it's NOT geoBase, yet it's Natural Resources Canada, also from the Earth Sciences devision. ... (and aparently it also passed as OK for OSM load)</div><div><br>
</div><div>You can go through it, and download the 'Ibycus topo 3.0 (CanVec topo mapset)' .. as a shape file, as a ESRI shape file.</div><div>we can download and import all but those tiles that have lots of OSM data already there.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The import script is what needs to be worked on, so that on all the points, ways, and areas it all has the 'GeoGratis' or 'GeoBase' or 'CanVec' or 'Natural Resources Canada on it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>... and so our challenge is to make sure that as long as every point and way and shape has a reference number, were golden. So this 'extract-transform-load' can be done for just those complicated tiles that has lots of OSM data... .. because we don't want to see the ghost lines.</div>
<div><br></div><div>and so, for those few tiles that are left, thats where the creative script happens.</div><div><br></div><div>An option would be to go ahead and start with the script on how to convert CanVec Canada GeoGratis datasets. .. the same script is used for all of them. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Here the big assumption, that the same script that is used to convert most of the tiles can be used again which will be able to check for updates when new CanVec data is available. </div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>So anyway...</div><div>No bother with GeoBase anymore... as it's CanVec which has all the data already done.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Sam</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. My hopes is that i make a little sence.</div>
<div><br></div><div>and ya...</div><div>I think we all can use Gmail chat.. that would work?... facebook chat is available to.</div><div>... at least with the digest, that makes us (me) need to wait till the next digest to get all the messages. We can all visit Tofino... :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>And a final bite.. im just looking at 092B06 shape file and see that its made of 44 shape files 1 file for each type of data. .. i just opened 1 at random (with gpsmapedit) and guessed on what it could be. .. and opened it, and it was the residential streets... so im sure theres probably a listing somewhere of what each code represents... so we just need to make sure thats right across the board.</div>
<div>and ya.. it looks like that topo data (that we dont need is new stuff) ... but it would be good to keep and save as a layer, and to make a garmin map out of just that file type. ..</div><div>..</div><div>And ya.. another little point.</div>
<div>... Is it just the roads that we dont like the ghost lines for? .. its kinda hard to find out about how many users have put in ALL the CanVec data available. .. anyway. Thats alot of info to take in ...</div><div>as now that CanVec is the new GeoBase.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Do we still want to download the road data when it's available as CanVec???</div><div>anyway... the shapefile name code of the last 7 digits is 176 for the roads.. and 148 for the water. </div><div>
... anyway.. this job i can do. I'll make a list (if it's not done already)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Sam Vekemans</div><div>Across Canada Trails</div>