[Talk-ca] Import Geobase Geopolitical Boundaries

[Michel Gilbert]

*7-Zip* is *open source* software for file archiving with a high compression
ratio. You can download it at http://www.7-zip.org/. Next time I will
compress it as zip file.

Michel

2008/12/4 Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Steve Singer <ssinger_pg at sympatico.ca>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Michel Gilbert wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have worked on the Geobase Canadian Geopolitical Boundaries.
> >> I took the prov_ab_p_geo83_e.shp file that contains the administrative
> >
> >>
> >> The results <ftp://ftp.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/nsprod/mg/osm/> can be seen
> with
> >> JOSM but it is very slow. The file is heavy,
> >
> > What file format is administrativeArea.7z in?
> > It doesn't appear to be gzip,zip  or a .osm file.
>
> 7z is an alternative zipping format. You might need 7zip or WinRAR (on
> windows) or the 7zip package on a Linux box.
>
> Corey
>
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