[Talk-ca] Nts tile names

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 21:25:08 BST 2009


Thanks,
Does anyone know how to create a little java program that can take
details from the .xml file, and the .htm file and rename the folder
with select details?
I dont know how todo that in DOS (if its possable) either.

Sam

On 9/21/09, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
> 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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