[Talk-ca] Initial Test Areas to Import GeoBase

[Michel Gilbert]

2008/12/10 Richard Degelder <rtdegelder at gmail.com>

> When we want to try testing an import from GeoBase why not look to doing
> so within one of the Territories.  A quick look at the map shows nothing
> in these areas and so there is no conflict resolution required and, as a
> bonus, we get an area completed that is currently unmapped.  An
> additional benefit is that the data for there areas is likely to be
> fairly small, especially for roads, and we can have communities named
> within the area.
>
> If we start with the Geopolitical boundaries and then use one, or even
> all of the Territories for the initial tests for any uploading scripts
> we can at least be assured that the data is going in correctly.  We are
> not going to be able to test any conflict resolution with current data
> since there is none, although the scripts could be checking it without
> finding anything.  And that would also solve the problem that the data
> coming from GeoBase is by province or Territory and so an entire data
> set can be imported in one instance.


I can produce the osm file for importing the Geobase boundaries. I
mapped<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GeoBase:_Canadian_Geopolitical_Boundaries>the
Geobase Admin areas to OSM features.  Then I created the osm
file <ftp://ftp.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/nsprod/mg/osm/> for importing as a test
(the file was compressed with 7Zip). The only problem I had was to create
complex polygons in osm (donut polygons). Comments will be appreciate.

Michel

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