[Talk-ca] Hello from the Yukon

[Matt Wilkie]

Greetings Everyone,

My name is Matt Wilkie and I work for the Yukon Government, Department 
of Environment, and have a little familiarity with Geobase data. At 
least as it pertains to my region. Sam Vekhemans scrounged me up and 
invited me to participate  in the discussion of importing Geobase data 
into Open Streetmap, probably because I've posted some scripts for mass 
download and merging of geoabase data*.

As I told Sam, I'm willing to devote some time to helping with this 
project as it's a good cause. From the announcement it looks like you 
already have the enthusiastic support from Geobase itself so I don't 
know that I'll have much new to contribute. Nevertheless I'm free with 
my opinions anyway. ;-)

I guess my first question is, how much of the geobase data are you 
interested in? There are a lot of different layers available and they 
will likely each need their own approach.

I only have a passing familiarity with OSM and the Geobase_Import 
sub-project. What kind of help are you looking for?

* http://code.google.com/p/maphew/source/browse/#svn/trunk/gis/geobase

best regards,

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matt wilkie
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