[Talk-ca] NRN Map chart & CanVec Updat

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 06:10:28 GMT 2009


hi,
Yes, it has been discussed. (somewhere back in the archives)
It's on my list of things todo.
Make a wiki page about this issue, and what the answer (consensus is)

cheers,
sam


On 2/25/09, Michael dos Santos <meeklo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone looked at pulling road names out of the StatsCanada 2005 Road
> Network?  The linework is terrible but useful for names and highway/road
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> http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/2006Dissemination/Data/FRR_RNF_e.cfm
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> From: talk-ca-bounces at openstreetmap.org
> [mailto:talk-ca-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Sam Vekemans
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:22 AM
> To: John Peterson; talk-ca at openstreetmap.org; Steve Singer; Michel Gilbert
> Subject: [Talk-ca] NRN Map chart & CanVec Update
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> Hi,
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> It looks like your working more on the 040 area. Awesome!
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> Perhaps it would be best to keep it to 1 line, and just add in what tiles
> your working on.
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> My concern is that this chart will get too big.
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> As you might be aware there is an option to show the unnamed roads.. as
> "fixme=no name" so then on the OSM map layer, all the roads that need to be
> named are highlighted.
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> I have now been able to make the CanVec2osm script work, so it's also
> possible to view everything that canvec has to offer shown as individual OSM
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> The only thing that it doesn't do is compare with existing data directly.
> But fortunately, this doesn't include roads.  The roads DO exist, but
> because road names are not available AND the data isn't as accurate, it's
> not used, nor is any other feature that is already part of GeoBase.
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> So far, the script doesn't include all the features, yet, but enough to get
> an idea of how the features will get shown.
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> The progress of this import will also be shown in a similar fashion, so i am
> trying to match as much as possible.
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> I wont actually start the import until, the whole script is done (obviously)
> :-) ... but until i get the OK from lots of mappers that all the tags are
> there as they should be.
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> Cheers,
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> Sam
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