<div dir="ltr">Would it be acceptable to mirror the Canvec data in the FTP site?  I'd gladly put up the resources to serve up the data.<div><br></div><div>Darren Wiebe<br><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">First, a short clarification – I do not know if Canvec will no longer (never again) be supplied in OSM format, I just know there are currently no resources allocated to work with the OSM community.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Second, about the Canvec conversion scripts …<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">They are owned by the crown – I would be surprised they could/would be released to the public;<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">They were all developed with FME – a powerful tool – but you usually need to pay to get the appropriate licences…<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Third, concerning potential “diffs” files …<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">There are some references to diffs files in talk-ca archives (some were even available for few NTS through ftp site)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">          </span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Maybe diffs files are available for Canvec? I do not know. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Forth, my main concern is more about the sustained availability of the data in the ftp site </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">L</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Best,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Daniel<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Chris Davis [mailto:<a href="mailto:davis.christopher@gmail.com" target="_blank">davis.christopher@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> November-15-14 01:56<br><b>To:</b> Darren Wiebe<br><b>Cc:</b> Talk-CA OpenStreetMap<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-ca] Bringing canvec to OSM back to life<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">I think it would be great to see newer CanVec data in OSM as well. BC's vegetation coverage from the last import in 2010 (tagged as "natural":"wood") is horribly patchy and quite ugly in the OSM basemap and other maps.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Chris<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 14 November 2014 18:25, Darren Wiebe <<a href="mailto:darren@aleph-com.net" target="_blank">darren@aleph-com.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">I can only address point 4.  I'd love to see newer Canvec data. <u></u><u></u></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#888888"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666">Darren Wiebe</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#888888"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Andrew <<a href="mailto:andrew.allison@teksavvy.com" target="_blank">andrew.allison@teksavvy.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hello List:<br><br>        Given Daniel's reply that Canvec will no longer be supplied in OSM<br>format, I'm curious about:<br><br>1:      I don't know what I don't know to begin with :-)<br>2:      Are the scripts / programs available to do the conversion still<br>available?<br>3:      Was there ever a program written to produce a "diffs" file?<br>4:      Is there a desire to have newer Canvec data converted to OSM?<br><br>        Just throwing this out there.<br><br>        Andrew<br>        aka CanvecImports<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-ca mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-ca mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div>