[Talk-ca] Canadian data announcement: GeoBase Import
Richard Weait
richard at weait.com
Tue Nov 18 19:07:05 GMT 2008
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:31 -0700, Jason Reid wrote:
> 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.
Perhaps we can get started with the boundaries at GeoBase? I don't
think we have another source for them and so no conflicts when importing
them.
GeoBase also has aerial photography. Depending on the location, it can
be better resolution than the landsat and Y! images. So perhaps one of
the WMS folks will take a look at that too.
Best regards,
Richard
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