[Talk-ca] NTS sheet to lat/lon converter

[Sam Vekemans]

Thanks frank,
I'll give you access to it, so if you have time your welcome to
fill-in-the-blanks with that bbox link.
If not, thats ok too, im now using it as I go along.

Cheers,
Sam

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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Frank Steggink <steggink at steggink.org>wrote:

> Sam Vekemans wrote:
>
>> Thanks :)
>> I just used your tile BBOX so then the link is in the chart.
>> ...
>> We always use
>> http://geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/en/product/search.do?id=28954
>> But since it's hard to get the BBOX your method is awesome :)
>>
>> What do you think of the googleDoc chart?
>>
>> I tried it for that tile you listed in there.
>>
>> What area are you in?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sam
>>
>> Twitter: @Acrosscanada
>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Frank Steggink <steggink at steggink.org<mailto:
>> steggink at steggink.org>> wrote:
>>
>>    Frank Steggink wrote:
>>    > Hi,
>>    >
>>    > Because it is not obvious to everyone what the extent of the NTS
>>    sheets
>>    > is, I've created a little service which converts them to lat/lon
>>    > coordinates. It is also possible to show them directly as a box in
>>    > OpenStreetMap. I'm not sure if a similar service exists
>>    (probably NRCan
>>    > has one), but this might also be useful for the Geobase import.
>>    >
>>    > The main entry page is at http://www.steggink.org/geo/
>>    > At the bottom you can enter the NTS sheet number. It can be done
>>    in the
>>    > formats 'NNN', 'NNNL' or 'NNNLNN' where N is a number and L is a
>>    letter.
>>    >
>>    > When you press the Submit button, you'll go to a page which
>>    shows the
>>    > center coordinates. (No extent yet.) For example, entering
>>    '021L14' (the
>>    > sheet containing Quebec City) leads you to
>>    > http://www.steggink.org/geo/nts_area/021L14. From there you can
>>    go to
>>    > various services accepting coordinates, like OSM.
>>    >
>>    > When you press the OSM button in the main page, you'll directly
>>    see the
>>    > result as a box in OSM. The "calculated" URL
>>    > http://www.steggink.org/geo/nts_area/021L14/osmbox gets you
>>    redirected
>>    > (HTTP 301) to the OSM site:
>>    >
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-71.5&minlat=46.75&maxlon=-71&maxlat=47&box=yes
>>    <
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-71.5&minlat=46.75&maxlon=-71&maxlat=47&box=yes
>> >
>>    >
>>    > This means that you can also use the URL at my site as a template,
>>    > replace the bbox, and you'll directly go to the OSM page. The
>>    next idea
>>    > I had would be to using these URLs at the Geobase import status
>>    page, so
>>    > everybody sees directly what area exactly was imported.
>>    >
>>    > If you notice any errors (especially in the polar regions, due
>>    to the
>>    > inconsitent box sizes), please report them to me. And yeah, this
>>    is not
>>    > entirely RESTful, because errors are also returned as HTTP 200 -
>>    OK :)
>>    >
>>    > Regards,
>>    >
>>    > Frank
>>    >
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>>    >
>>    Sorry for not escaping the URLs properly. The second one should be
>>    this:
>>    <http://www.steggink.org/geo/nts_area/021L14>. (should work with those
>>    brackets).
>>
>>    Frank
>>
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>>  Hi Sam,
>
> No, I haven't looked at the Googledoc charts yet. Too busy with other
> stuff, among which mapping :) I'm living in Quebec City, that's why I used
> it as a sample.
>
> Frank
>
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