[Talk-ca] importing GeoBase Data (learning from TIGER)

[Jason Reid]

Steve Singer wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Michel Gilbert wrote:
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>> Geobase has a uniformed road classification. The matching between osm and
>> geobase road classes should be applicable globally. I suspect that local
>> contexts may be necessary in some cases (ramp classification form example).
>> We can start Geobase NRN - OSM Map Feature.  I can start this.
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> Yes this needs to be started.  The wiki would be a good place to 
> start collecting the mapping in. Others can contribute that way as well.
>
> The feature catalogue for the road network, and hydro network  can be found 
> at
> http://www.geobase.ca/doc/specs/pdf/GeoBase_FeatureCatalogue_SegmentedView_NRN_2_0_EN.pdf
> http://www.geobase.ca/doc/catalogue/GeoBase_NHN_Catalogue_1.0.1_EN.html
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>   
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michel
>>
>>     
>
> Steve
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If you take a look at my prototype script it includes some of the 
highway related translations:

http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/geobase2osm/geobase2osm.py

It has at least the basic mappings for most of the provinces from the 
NRN dataset.

-Jason Reid