[Talk-ca] geobase NID and canvec ID and SOURCEID

[Sam Vekemans]

Oops, i responded to james off-list accedently (on my mobile)

Anyway the imports@ list threw me a curve ball & a new version of
shp-to-os & discussions with daniel on the phone & the inner/outer
delema ...

So with all that, im working hard to get the script out of beta &
ready to use ASAP.

I think next week it should be ready.
(as you all know, i work 'round the clock on this, but its worth it)

Great to work with all these brillient tallented folks.

And thanks to everyone who is keeping the chart uptodate :-)

cheers,
Sam

On 11/5/09, James A. Treacy <treacy at debian.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> In comparing geobase NHN vs canvec data I noticed that canvec has both
> ID and SOURCEID. SOURCEID is the same as the NID from geobase. No idea
> where the canvec ID comes from. The only unique piece of information
> (at least for NHN data) that follows the data in both geobase and
> canvec is the geobase NID.
>
> geobase NHN data does not have the CODE tag.
>
> My question is, shouldn't we use the geobase NID (canvec SOURCEID)
> as the main identifier for data? If not, why?
>
> This does not preclude also including CODE when it exists.
>
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> James Treacy
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