[Talk-ca] buildings to OSM

[Frank Steggink]

Hi M.A. Gagnon,

The goal is to import nearly all of the features of Canvec. That is why 
the conversion script is converting all the themes at once, but not per 
theme.  However, I can imagine that it is more convenient to focus on 
one or a few themes at first. This would be a nice addition for the next 
version of canvec_to_osm. So far the only thing I considered adding was 
support to download 256 NTS tiles at once. I'm not sure when I'll be 
working on it, but once it is done, I'll post it on talk-ca.

The first thing I did when taking over the maintenance of this script 
was converting it to Python. Many people, including me, aren't running 
Windows. And of course Python is a much more flexible scripting language 
than .bat files. You can find Python at http://www.python.org. The 
script itself can be found at [1]. This download does not contain Ian 
Dees' JAR file, because it can be downloaded from his site. In case 
you're not familiar with Python (and if you use Windows): 1) make sure 
python.exe is available in your PATH variable; 2) the script is executed 
by typing "python canvec-to-osm.py [options]" in a command prompt.

In the meantime I've put the sources and the rules files on [2], so that 
eventual interested people can work on it as well. I renamed the .py 
files, because using hyphens in the name is a bit awkward, but I didn't 
make any other changes.

If you have questions or comments, please let me know.

Regards,

Frank

[1] http://www.steggink.org/osm/Canvec/Canvec-to-osm_v0.1.zip
[2] 
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/canvec_import/canvec_to_osm/


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> On 12/2/09, mag.gagnon at gmail.com <mag.gagnon at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks for the reply. BTW, I'm senior Analyst at CRTC responsible for all
>> kinds of telecom and broadcasting GIS data. Let me know if you ever need
>> anything telcom related.
>> My answers below.
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>>     
>>> Are you refering to building nodes or areas?
>>>       
>> All buildings eg: "_BS_" files. A mix of points, lines, areas
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>>     
>>> What area/tiles are you working on?
>>>       
>> Got the complete package from off the web, unziped and trying to pack as
>> one object.
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>>> Were actually working on converting all the canvec data at once.
>>>       
>> Cool. Will follow this very closely.
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>>> Frank is now the main person who is working on the script.
>>>       
>> Dont know this frank
>>
>>     
>>> What is it that your having problems with? Whats the error message say?
>>>       
>> Was hoping to have file for combining only buildings eg: all "_BS_"
>> together.
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