Hi Silo & talk-ca<div><br></div><div>Yes, GPS Tracks are always helpful, and everyone is encouraged to continue to post and share their gps tracks for wherever they go.</div><div>GPS Tracks help by:</div><div>* - They re-affirm the physical existence of roads. The Imported data from GeoBase NRN was acquired some date in the past and aquired from sources other than GPS, mainly Vector data. So there are chances that roads are no longer used or perhaps the road type has changed (ie. a public road became a private road or logging road, and the map hasnt been updated).</div>
<div>* - They show the existance of trails / hiking /walking / cycling.</div><div>* - they show the existance of possable routes,</div><div>* - they show where foot briges are, and other maap features which might not be available as part of the CanVec dataset.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>So basically, we can never have enough GPS Traces :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Status Update:</div><div>Currently, most of Northern Alberta's road network has been uploaded from the GeoBase NRN, (and with road names) So now this whole area needs to be physically checked and re-tagged where needed to accurately reflect what is on the ground.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This now leaves room to import all the CanVec data. The most logical conclusion is to start the import only in Northern Alberta, as we know that the roads are all good. (So this will wait until canvec2osm script is out of Beta phase.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>The 1 snag i have is that part of this CanVec data set includes map some features which are available in the Geobase NHN (National Hydro Network) So to handle this, i am creating the script geobaseNHN2osm which looks at all the GeoBase NHN features and attaches the appropriate tags. So in area's where the feature also exists in CanVec, the duplicate will be omitted in the least-detailed dataset. For example, CanVec has rivers listed, but the names are omited. NHN does have the names, so the NHN name tag features will be made available. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The obvious conclusion is that the geobaseNHN2osm map features data gets uploaded BEFORE canvec2osm</div><div><br></div><div>The other snag is for GeoBaseNRN data, this has be handled by creating a separate folder which indicates those features which are already eithor in OSM, or on their way to being imported. This data is available for temporary viewing reference only, during the waiting time before geobaseNRN gets imported. This makes viewing the sample area easier.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In the mean time (as i said before, and continue to repeat) your help is needed by going through the 11 canvec charts and ensuring that the chosen tags are the best choice to be used for the import script. Please let me (or note on the talk page, or change the chart yourself) of tags that need to be changed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I feel that importing all of the canvec features, as well as using the geobaseNHN2osm script can be done at the same time. This would reduce the possability of finding major errors in the tagging technique and (hopefully reduce) the probability of needing to revert the import process further along the line.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Sam</div>