[Imports] [Talk-ca] Ftp site for Canvec product (.osm)

[Andy Allan]

Cool! For other import projects it's worth pointing out that the OSMF
dev server (dev.openstreetmap.org) is available and suitable for this
kind of thing (i.e. hosting .osm files for sharing around the
community). And the shiny new version of the dev server is open for
business too - with oodles of hard disk space!

That's just as an alternative of course, there's no point looking this
Canadian gift horse in the mouth!

Cheers,
Andy

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> And i forgot to forward this to Andy & the imports@ list too, in case you
> missed it on the main list.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Ftp site for Canvec product (.osm)
> To: "Bégin, Daniel" <Daniel.Begin at rncan-nrcan.gc.ca>,
> talk at openstreetmap.org, Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca at openstreetmap.org>,
> SteveC <steve at asklater.com>, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com>
>
>
> Hi Daniel,
> cc:talk-ca discussion list.
> & Steve Coast, founder OpenStreetMap Foundation & the main discussion
> list talk at openstreetmap.org
>
> On behalf of the OpenStreetMap community in Canada, and as the main
> coordinator who is working with this data. We want to express our
> sincere gratidude & appreciation of Natural Resources Canada - for
> providing us with access to the ftp server in order to store the
> converted canvec shp files into the OSM format, as  this will MOST
> CERTAINLY be of great benifit to the community.
>
> A special thanks goes out to the entire OSM Community, as you all had
> a part in making this happen.  & to Ian Dees who made the conversion
> program (that is used to convert the files with shp-to-osm.jar)
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Sam Vekemans
> OSM Canada Contributor, import coordinator, & developer of the
> conversion program canvec2osm /canvec-to-osm
>
>
> On 10/22/09, Bégin, Daniel <Daniel.Begin at rncan-nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>>
>>
>> I read a few weeks ago that you were seeking an ftp site to
>> upload/download
>> Canvec files in Osm format.  The objective was to ease uploading of Canvec
>> data by the Openstreetmap community - some converting Canvec shape file
>> into
>> Osm, the others uploading them using JOSM.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have set up such a site wich will be available next week at
>> ftp://ftp2/osm/pub/ <http://ftp2/osm/pub>
>>
>>
>>
>> Actually, I am not personally offering it (even if I am very pleased with
>> that) but it is on behalf of the Center for Topographic Information in
>> Sherbrooke (NRCan).  We are pleased to see the interest of the community
>> in
>> Canvec data and hope this will help.
>>
>>
>>
>> For those who are converting Canvec shape file to Osm and wish to make
>> them
>> available on that site, send me an email and I will provide you with the
>> location of the incoming site and some uploading rules.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel Bégin
>>
>> Centre d'information topographique de Sherbrooke
>>
>> Center for Topographic Information - Sherbrooke
>> Ressources Naturelles Canada / Natural Ressources Canada
>> 2144, rue King Ouest, bureau 010
>> Sherbrooke (Québec) J1J 2E8
>> (819) 564-5600 ext.242, dbegin at NRCan.gc.ca
>>
>>
>
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