[Talk-ca] Geobase Canadian Geo Boundaries Import

Jason Reid osm at bowvalleytechnologies.com
Sun Dec 28 23:03:00 GMT 2008


Steve Singer wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Michel Gilbert wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I may have to remove the boundaries I have just uploaded. Is there a
>> way to make a bulk removal ?
>>     
>
> If you need to do a bulk removal one method that might 
> work would be:
>
> 1. Open up a small area in JOSM that contains one of the provincial borders 
> (with all these new nodes you might hit the object limit sooner than you 
> think).  This will download the entire way not just the portion in your 
> bounding box (which might be the cause of problems in the first place)
>
> This will import/download the entire boundary, not just the portion in your 
> download area.
>
> 2. Select the way in JOSM
> 3. Select your username in JOSM under the users table
> 4. Under the users menu "Select Users Data"
>
> That should highlight all your data (which will include the boundary).  Then 
> delete all the highlighted data (trashcan) and upload the change (I'd 
> expect the upload to take a while).  Repeat for each of the boundaries you want to delete.
>
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>   
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>> I thought boundary layer was an easy one :(
>>     
>
> Will we need to divide the boundaries into smaller ways of a few 
> hundred-1000 nodes each?
>
>   
>>
>> Michel
>>
>>     
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In the past its been suggested that a max of around 500 nodes per way 
was a good idea for an upper bound. I do believe that someone did put 
together a tool to do a bulk splitting of ways at one point, not sure if 
its in svn or not.

-Jason Reid




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