[Talk-ca] FW: Canvec import in Montréal with ? names

[Sam Vekemans]

Yup, that was the reason why i kept dealing with the canvec stuff for
myself, in hopes that the geobase road network would have gotten all done
before the team started to work with canvec.

I omited the roads for that script on purpose :)

Oh well, my fault for making that script available too soon :)

Cheers,
Sam

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Daniel Bégin <jfd553 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi all, I'm guilty!
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> Actually, I'm importing the Canvec road network in Laval (north of
> Montreal) because I've done a lot GPS mapping in this area.  Last week I
> used canvec-to-osm to convert the rest of the road network.  So, if the tags
> are not appropriate, something should be modified in the application.
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> Curiously, I used the same application few weeks ago near Sherbrooke area
> and did not have that problem?!!  Someone can explain it to me?
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> However, I am in the process of correcting the data I imported. It has not
> only odd tags but a problem using JOSM creates a lot of duplicate ways.
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> Which tags do you suggest I keep/remove? Pierre-Luc suggested me to remove
> tags with "?" values, any other suggestions? I can easily removed odd tags
> at the same time I'm correcting my ways.
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> Cheers,
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> Daniel
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: talk-ca-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:
> talk-ca-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
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> Sent: December 10, 2009 23:18
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> To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
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> Subject: [Talk-ca] Canvec import in Montréal with ? names
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> Hi,
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> I've been a little disconnected about the whole import process. Tonight
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> I've seen CanVec streets appear in my neighboorhood with odd tags such
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> as:
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> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.509963468565353&lon=-73.561728000640869&zoom=18
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> name = "?"
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> name2= "?"
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> address:street:leftside="?"
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> address:street:rightside="?"
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> is_in="?"
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> I believe such approach is unproductive as it takes quite a lot of work
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> to clean up the tags afterwards or even to print a nice map without ?
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> everywhere.
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> Tags should not be set to FIXME or "?".  They should not be set. Then
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> they'll show up on the "no name" layer. Please someone fix that import
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> script. :)
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> Pierre-Luc
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