[Talk-ca] Canadian data announcement: GeoBase Import

[Jason Reid]

Richard Weait wrote:
> Dear OpenStreetMap community,
>
> Announcement
>
> Regarding the proposed inclusion of Canadian geospatial data from the
> GeoBase web site into OpenStreetMap.org
>
>
>   
Excellent news. Thanks to all those who worked on this at the foundation 
level.

I did some initial prototyping of an import script (which is in the SVN 
repository) about a year or so ago that we can probably use as a 
starting point in going forward, the largest issues that I ran into then 
were in coming up with mappings of what goes to what, which varies per 
province. So in reality it isn't so much a single large dataset but 
rather 13 distinct imports for just the roads alone as each province and 
territory has their own classification system (what may be a officially 
considered secondary highway in one province may be a primary or 
tertiary in the neighboring and may not match up with the common OSM 
guidelines for any, for instance) that has been incorporated into the 
mappings that Geobase use in the data files.

-Jason Reid