[Talk-ca] why python

[Sam Vekemans]

Yup,
Fortunately Frank has fixed that for us all :)

Like Frank mentioned, there are still a few little 'tweeks' then the
rulesTXT zip file will be out of my hands... and available for anyone else
to be the 'maintainter of' canvec-to-osm_v1.01 and beyond :-)

Sure, I can certainly explain the method of the madness.. and work on making
the wiki more clear and the readme.txt more clear... and the GoogleDocs
chart that lists all the tags that were used more clear.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am70fsptsPF2clAwc29KaXlGaGFwS1piUkxZWjc0ekE&hl=en

.. and a quick look at reading the README.txt that frank wrote it apprears
that he is technically more qualified to make the script work than i can.
:-)

Apparently, you just type in the NTS tile.. and 'presto' .... (i could do
that too, but it would take me MUCH longer)  (i guess part of it was that
cool website script that made a bbox)
http://www.steggink.org/geo/

So unfortunatly James,
Unlike (maybe alot of you out there) im not a Ubuntu person, nor  actually a
programmer.
I just did that legwork of analyzing the 393 map features in the canVec
dataset and figuring out what out of all that is useful.
 and (inorder todo that, i needed to cross-referenced it all with the
geobase dataset as it has 'similar' features.  (a task that more than 1
person tackling wouldn't work)

... the result of that, is exactly what were doing how.  Some features are
now beyond my technical grasp, Therefore, I can (and did) specify EXACLTY
which of the 393 map features i had problems with, and these will get dealt
with :-)
.. It's ALOT easier for this team to handle 2 bugs (inner/outer big files &
intersecting nodes),   ... (which are now pretty much figured out BTW)
...

So now i'll be able to focus on the next task of sifting through the 'pile'
of Land Information Ontario Dataset that is available.   Once that's done,
I'll be able to report back exactly  what features will be good in OSM, and
have all the Rules.txt files made up for all the features for each type
:)     ... that is, until i get bored. :-)  .... or someone else jumps in
and wants to take the lead.   (,,, but your right, many hands make light
work (if using the same set of rules.txt) So maybe for now, i'm just
'claiming steak to the Trail data)  yummy...

So while im doing that (above) i''ll also be maintaining the GoogleDocs
spreadsheet of the import status, & keeping track of everyones progress to
ensure that everyones on the same page :)   'cause i know that not everyone
is keeping track of this talk list, and might have missed important things
:)
... so i might not be the one who is actually uploading the files to the
NRCan server, or other sites, .. and also might not be the one who is
actually uploading the various data to OSM, but i'm happy keep track of it
:-)

Hopefully that makes sense,
Cheers,
Sam

P.S.  Ya, i still have trouble making messages 'short and to the point' lol

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:31 AM, James A. Treacy <treacy at debian.org> wrote:

> Sam,
> Just so you are aware, the bat files are only useful for MS users
> while python can be used by anyone (including Mac users to answer
> Michel's question). You just need to install python, which should
> not be difficult.
>
> This is important as it opens up the number of people that can
> contribute.
>
> --
> James Treacy                        Many hands make light work
> treacy at debian.org
>
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