[Talk-ca] Help for Canvec to OSM for part of NB

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi John,

What tile area ares you interested in?

New Brunswick is in the 021 & 022 area
http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/browse.do?produit=cded&decoupage=50k&map=021

You can see a chart of what the GeoBase NRN status is like for New Brunswick
http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nrn/status.html

I have added you as an editor to the Canada import Status Googledocs Chart.

Cheers,
Sam Vekemans
OSM Canada Import Coordinator

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:33 PM, John Smart <smartowka at rogers.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I would like to take a shot at updating the OSM for some of New
> Brunswick, which presently does not have very much mapping compiled. The
> plan I think I'd like to follow is:
>
> 1. Select an NTS 1:50 000 area that has few roads and which has no OSM
> or minimal OSM.
> 2. Run script(s) to generate OSM from the Canvec data set. At this point
> I am only interested in roads, to prove the process for that.
> 3. Upload the OSM.
> 4. Have some people (you?) review the data, make comments.
> 5. Iterate the process a bit till quality good (or I give up!)
> 6. If I'm still here, maybe add some more.
>
> Any comments on my plan are very welcome, especially helpful tips!
>
> The part I'm currently interested in is #2, generating OSM from Canvec.
> I saw on the mailing list that there is a python script called
> canvec_to_osm_features.py, and I have downloaded that. However, I have
> difficulty running it on my Windows XP box. Specifically:
> - I can launch python (which I happen to have on my path)
> - But if I just run "C:\Canvec2Osm>python canvec_to_osm_features.py
> --version" then nothing happens.
>
> I'd appreciate any comments on exactly what I need to do to get this .py
> script to work.
>
> Lastly (for now) I think that if I get the .py working, I will
> immediately run into a problem with shp-to-osm. Like the .py readme
> said, I have made a bin directory and I've put the shp-to-osm in there.
> Actually I have both:
> 2009-11-11  17:37         7,365,493
> shp-to-osm-0.7.3-jar-with-dependencies.jar
> 2009-11-11  17:37         7,365,493 shp-to-osm.jar
> in case there is some naming problem. Have I done the right thing?
>
> Thanks for any help. I hope I won't get frustrated and that I'll be able
> to help the project a bit!
>
> John
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-ca mailing list
> Talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/attachments/20091119/f78e67c8/attachment.html>