[Talk-ca] Python version of canvec-to-osm

[Sam Vekemans]

Cool,
thanks Frank,
i also saw you worked on the wiki a bit more too. Great!

Reading over it, that 'glomKey' is supposed to fix that
'non-connecting-rivers-bug' i have.
Has anyone made work?

Also, the note that 'type' cannot be used in the rules.txt, yet 'type'
is a valid OSM tag and actively used to list the 'sub-values' of the
tag above.

Also, the dos bat file has a VERY basic GUI, where it now lets you
process each group of tile letter (16 tiles) separatly or download 256
tiles and let the whole thing just run.

I'll take another at running python wizardry, but its 'most probably'
someone else who will let the whole routeen run on their computer.
& upload the .zip file to the NRCan ftp 'incomming' folder.
... Once the last geometry bugs get fixed.

... Anyway, lots to chat about.

Great job,
cheers,
Sam

On 11/11/09, Frank Steggink <steggink at steggink.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have created a python version of canvec-to-osm. It does basically the
> same as Sam's batch files. With it, 1 or 16 tiles are downloaded,
> converted, and put in a ZIP file.
>
> The script can be found here:
> http://www.steggink.org/osm/Canvec/Canvec-to-osm_v0.1.zip
>
> Requirements:
> - Python 2.6 (recommended) or 2.5: http://www.python.org/
> - Java Runtime Environment: http://www.java.com/
> - recent version of shp-to-osm:
> http://redmine.yellowbkpk.com/projects/list_files/geo
>
> I've tested the script both on Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) with
> shp-to-osm 0.7.1 - 0.7.3.
> The rules files come from Sam's canvec-to-osm script, version 0.9.6.0.
> They are not the final rules files which should be available in a few
> weeks. If you want to add more features, or exclude some features from
> being processed, you can easily add / remove lines from
> canvec_to_osm_features.py.
>
> The configuration of this script is part of the script itself (for now).
> The default should be enough to get you going, so it is not necessary to
> change the configuration. You can do this, if you already have an
> existing directory to store Canvec SHP data. The script does not attempt
> to modify the feature geometries. This should be done by more
> specialized scripts / applications. I haven't looked in that.
>
> Detailed instructions can be found in the readme. Questions and feedback
> are welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Frank
>
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