[Talk-ca] Nts tile names

Brent Fraser bfraser at geoanalytic.com
Mon Sep 21 14:59:20 BST 2009


Sam,

   Each CanVec tile has a date in its XML metadata (in the 
<lineage><srcinfo><srctime> tag).  Perhaps it might be useful.

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser

Sam Vekemans wrote:
> Thanks,
> I even have access to it on my mobile :)
> 'year valid' is what we need (doesnt need to be exact).
> 
> In other news, i found the pictorial representation of the country in
> NTS tile #'s. It'll be handy later.
> 
> Great find!
> cheers,
> Sam
> 
> 
> On 9/19/09, Frank Steggink <steggink at steggink.org> wrote:
>> Sam Vekemans wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Frank Steggink <steggink at steggink.org
>>> <mailto:steggink at steggink.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi Sam,
>>>
>>>         Yes, i think there is a limit to the number of rows that
>>>         GoogleSpreadsheet will allow.. so im not sure how to deal with
>>>         that yet. .. it's a work in progress :-)
>>>
>>>     Split up per province, or per 8x4 degree sheet?
>>>     By the way, I noticed you've started correcting the rows I've
>>>     merged. I've completed them now. An in case you didn,'t know, here
>>>     [1] is a NRCan site where you can find all tile names. Could be
>>>     useful for the spreadsheet, but adding them might be a very big
>>>     task, or you need to export the data from Google, and import them
>>>     later ;) Not sure if that is possible.
>>>
>>> hi, can you attach the link again? I think it was missed.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sam
>> Oops, forgot to insert the actual link :)
>> It's here: http://maps.nrcan.gc.ca/topo_metadata/topo_metadata_e.php
>>
>> Frank
>>
> 
> 




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