<h2><br></h2>And here's part 2 (or the 1st part) of the notes, i messaged about how OpenJUMP is used to convert, but thats really beyond the scope of my technical ability.<br>Im sure someone else can help out there,<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Sam<br><br><br><br><h2>jsmart09's diary</h2>
<b><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jsmart09/diary/9466">2010-02-03</a></b><br>
<p>Played with Potlatch "revert" function. Bit painful since you can't
step quickly through versions or see easily what has changed between
versions (e.g. attribute change or spatial change, or spatial but not
in the area you're zoomed in on).</p>
<p>Spent more time assessing accuracy. I have been using Global Mapper
(GM) v10.02 which can load and display .osm, .shp, .sid. I have
overlaid OSM / NRCan (Geobase / Canvec / whatever), SNB's 1:10k topo,
SNB's SID orthophotos. Findings, in no particular order:</p>
<p>- the SIDs are quite useful, very useful since a lot of the Yahoo
imagery has too coarse a resolution to resolve roads. From what I
recall of the SID technical documentation, the accuracy is supposed to
be fairly good, well it says "+/- 6.0 metres for well-defined features"
here: <br><a href="http://www.snb.ca/gdam-igec/e/2900e_1b_i.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.snb.ca/gdam-igec/e/2900e_1b_i.asp</a></p>
<p>More tech. information here: <a href="http://www.snb.ca/topo/assistance/ORE1999R.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.snb.ca/topo/assistance/ORE1999R.pdf</a>.
It says 90% of well-defined features (i.e. not covered by vegetation)
must fall within 4m of their true position. Whenever I've plotted GPS
positions on these images I have been comfortable with the locations. I
think I am going to have faith in the accuracy of the SODB (Soft Copy
Orthophoto Database), as an underlay to vector data to support
assessment or even for on-screen digitizing.</p>
<p>Currency: imagery dates from 1996 - 2002. Obviously some roads have changed since then but most have not.</p>
<p>Legality of using SNB's data: see e.g. <a href="http://www.snb.ca/gdam-igec/e/2900e_1b_v_.asp?OrthoNum=45756660" rel="nofollow">http://www.snb.ca/gdam-igec/e/2900e_1b_v_.asp?OrthoNum=45756660</a>. From my reading, it says: "do what you like with it but don't blame us if you have problems".</p>
<p>- the SNB Digital Topographic Database (DTDB) has data in SHP
format. This is topo data at a nominal 1:10,000 scale. Excellent stuff
but perhaps more detailed than necessary. There are 1894 map sheets.</p>
<p>- the NRCan Geobase has data in SHP format on NAD83. I am interested
in roads, especially their accuracy. I am also interested in grabbing
water, forest, swamp, to supply context.</p>
<p>A thought I am having: it may be best in general to use Geobase
roads because the Geobase data all fits together well. Bad to use
someone's hokey GPS trace for a road and find it crossing the edge of a
Geobase forest or lake.</p>
<p>The Geobase roads (actually the NRN roads) seem to fit the SODB
pretty well. A problem with the NRN roads is that they are too
filtered, especially at curves: sometimes curves become too jagged and
the straight segments get noticeably far from the true curved roads.</p>
<p>The NRN data for NB is relatively old (2003) and does not have a
great deal of attribution. But it is pretty complete so very attractive
for using.</p>
<p>Merging with existing OSM roads: fortunately there is not a huge
amount of roads in OSM already, for NB. This makes merging less of a
problem. On the one hand I am inclined to replace existing OSM roads
with NRN ones, for consistency and possible accuracy. On the other hand
it does not seem right to go knocking out other people's possibly good
work just because "it wasn't invented here".</p>
<p>For roads, it makes sense to do the main highways first starting
with the TCH. I need to find out what the preferred attribution is
supposed to be for Canada.</p>
<p>Water: I am attracted to the idea of doing rivers and lakes first as
these do not interfere with anyone else's work. Again I need to find
out about the preferred attribution.</p>
<p>Some other attributes: we should really record source, accuracy, source date.</p>
<p>Tracy: looked at GPS trace + OSM road on rte 101 through Tracy. Hmm,
GPS trace seems about right but OSM road is about 70m too far E.</p>
<p>How can I insert images into the diary ??</p>
<p>Oh yes - Yahoo imagery seems a bit off sometimes in Fredericton, a few metres, nothing drastic.</p>
<p>END
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