[Talk-ca] GeoBase2osm & canvec2osm script making

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi, if you can post your custom script to the SVN, and add a
README.txt and state your copyright of cc-sa, it would alow me and
others to 'pick and choose' and help make the script more user
friendly :-)
you can also post your file on that file sharing site (that u posted
your osm files on)
-it would be appreciated :-)

also, if you can edit the wiki pages that your planning on working on,
it would really help.

As for CanVec the concensus is to choose the data in GeoBase over
Canvec.  Also if you see any listings on the Canvec feature charts,
that should be removed, or noted of duplicate geobase data -please let
me know, :)

also (everyone) i want to copy the geobase2osm script and take the
lines that i can use, then add it to the shp2osm script for
canvec2osm.bat program im making.

Re:canvec ontario road names - i'll check (the link to canvec is on the wiki)

Hopefully thats helpful, Sam

On 2/13/09, John Peterson <jdp at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Sam:
>
>  I don't know of any source for Ontario street names -- If CanVec has this
> and we can use canvec and it links to geobase then I would be very
> interested is scripting the street names.
>
> Canvec does seem to have railroads (I haven't looked at canvec at all) and I
> definitely want that.
>
> So on my list of scripts to write (after the geobase import set I working on
> now) are
>
> rivers from geobase
> railroads from canvec
> streetnames from ??? [ I had thought I would have to wait for years until
> geobase rolled them out in Ontario]
>
> I now have a script that can do is_in for streets if I have county or city
> boundaries -- I made my own for areas near London ontario, but does anyone
> know if there are county boundaries available somewhere?
>
> I guess I'll be busy ... :)
>
> John Peterson
>
>
>> Sam Vekemans said:
>>
>> Anyway, I'm wondering about weather or not your planning on having
>>  another script that would be able to import the road names? .. . or you
>> think it would be better off that they get manually entered in, from
>> survey?
>>
>> I guess that as long as the data shows the same tag reference, it doesn't
>> really matter what method was used. Right? I think so.
>>
>