[Talk-ca] buildings to OSM

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi,
Also, if your GIS data is in the province of Ontario, please consider
donating the data to Land Information Ontario (Ministry Of Natural
Resources) as the licence is also compatable with OSM (the 40 or so
datasets that are available to the public)
i have direct permisson & access to it.

But 1st, were working on getting all the CanVec & Geobase data imported.

I look forward to seeing whatever data you have, as avaible.

Cheers,
Sam

On 12/3/09, mag.gagnon at gmail.com <mag.gagnon at gmail.com> wrote:
> As discussed I have tons of GIS data I would like to port over to OSM.
> After discussions, I believe I should bring the data over to geobase first.
> I will get further involved with OSM when the data is part of the geobase
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> On , Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Frank :)
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>> So everyone knows.. all though i dont understand the python details... i
>> DO know how to make the new canvec2osm script run on my windows computer.
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>> and type in the tile area and let the script handle all the work. Frank
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>> work, so i can share the step-by-step instruction on-screen and using
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>> Like i mentioned on the Screen-cast earlier, we havent finalized decions
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>> one way rivers, and the building nodes which i wasn't able to figure out.
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>> However, a high % of all the features will be converted in 1 go... so all
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>> It's nice to have the road names, however the source file is not
>> geographically as accurate as the geobase road layout, so it made it
>> difficult to capture the road names from 1 set, and place into the
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>> Fortunatly, in ontario, the roadnames are available.
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>> You can see what the current status is here for the availablility.
>> http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nrn/status.html
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>> But like i said during the screen-cast, now that the canvec features are
>> in and the roads are in for Ottawa and lots of river data.. there is
>> still tonnes of work like paths/and benches and adding in stuff that
>> makes OSM unique :)
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>> Thanks to those who joined in :)
>> Each time i screen-cast, it gets better :)
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>> Cheers,
>> Sam
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>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Frank Steggink steggink at steggink.org>
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>> Hi MA Gagnon,
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>> 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.
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>> The first thing I did when taking over the maintenance of this script was
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> If you have questions or comments, please let me know.
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>> Regards,
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>> [1] http://www.steggink.org/osm/Canvec/Canvec-to-osm_v0.1.zip
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>> http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/canvec_import/canvec_to_osm/
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>> Sam Vekemans wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> At 6pm PST i'll be broadcasting live on tinychat.com/acrosscanada and
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>> ustream.tv/channel/acrosscanadatra and on my facebook profile & live
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>> on twitter, as well as available on skype for video call in.
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>> Mainly about the full Canada Import status, as there is ALOT going on,
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>> and important to know too. I'll save a recording on youtube.
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>> And ya, i'll answer your questions too :)
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>> ps. The talk-ca list is our main communication device for Canada,
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>> you'll need to subscribe to get messages through.
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>> -so we all know whats up :)
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>> cheers,
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>> Sam
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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
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>> kinds of telecom and broadcasting GIS data. Let me know if you ever need
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>> anything telcom related.
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>> Are you refering to building nodes or areas?
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>> All buildings eg: "_BS_" files. A mix of points, lines, areas
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>> Were actually working on converting all the canvec data at once.
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>> Cool. Will follow this very closely.
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>> Frank is now the main person who is working on the script.
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