[Talk-ca] CanVec-to-osm v0.9.5 now cooler than before

[Sam Vekemans]

Cool,
das ist heir goot!
i'll process the oktoberfest land next.

I think the complete-NRN.osm file for the area is available. I'll look
for the link.

Also, i'm planning on making a gpx track file of the roads geometry
available with the package. (using gpsbabel) This way, it can help you
locally, to manually move your OSM (origional way) over to the
left/right to get a better accuracy.
but ALSO, download the local gps track data (from OSM) this will give
you a better average to work with.

Cheers,
Sam

On 10/21/09, James A. Treacy <treacy at debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:51:54PM -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> i'm processing select areas on request, the script now basically
>> downloads/unzips/converts/adds source details/zips 16 canvec tiles in
>> 1 key stroke :)
>
> This is great news.
>
> Before people go rushing to import the data, I hope that they will
> give roads some consideration. Living in southwest Ontario I have been
> focusing on mapping that area, starting in Kitchener-Waterloo. It
> appears that in most areas the geobase roads were imported wholesale.
> Little thought was put into checking the data, leading to many missing
> roads and a lot of really bad roads being left in (often off by more
> than 50m). Not even the JOSM validator was run on the data.
>
> How does this relate to the import of canvec data? Checking roads is a
> lot harder as the maps become filled with other data.
>
> So please check the roads before adding other data.
>
> --
> James Treacy
> treacy at debian.org
>


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