[Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

[Sam Vekemans]

I'll try to explain:

The older versions of the geobaseNRN.gml files will not be available
to use for comparison to new geobaseNRN.gml files as they are
available.

Having this complete.osm file available, we can compare the 2 and get
a 'geobaseNRN-results.osm file.

We can then (later on) compare latest.osm with whats available and copy it over.
(the file will be smaller)

BTW, GML files are 'better' than SHP files.

And those of us without a ArchGIS background, can deal with .osm much easier :-)

Cheers,
Sam V.

On 9/25/09, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> (or others?)
>
> Perhaps you can the process of converting the .gml files into .osm and
> skip explaination of the road matcher process.
> This way, we will have instructions on how to create these .complete.osm
> files,
> and let the local people manually 'copy/paste' the roads that they want.
>
> Albiet slow, but effective.
>
> And making these big-complete-osm province-size (or smaller) files
> available.
>
> Sorry if im beating a horse here, on Wednesday on uStream.tv i can
> explain the concept better :-)
>
> cheers,
> Sam V
>
> On 9/25/09, Sam Dyck <samueldyck at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> It's fine, I just keep using Potlatch and JOSM and the Yahoo! Aerial
>> Imagery. I live in Winnipeg, which is Geobase tile 62 (sorry if you mean
>> something else or that is not specific enough). The City of Winnipeg
>> should
>> have all roads named (along with many other things) soon thanks to some
>> great people who have worked hard, but many of the smaller towns will be
>> difficult to do beacuse of the poor quality of the Ariel imagry I have
>> started to experiment with street numbers since there is no source (yet)
>> for
>> Manitoba (unless these are in the StatsCan data).
>>
>> Sam
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Sam Vekemans
>> <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> (wish i could help with those gml files, but cant :(
>>>
>>> fortunatly, its just a matter of time, now that we have 5 or so people
>>> who know how. :)
>>>
>>> were all volunteers, i guess i need to be more patient :), but i still
>>> want it done yesterday :)
>>>
>>> anyway, what tile area are you in?
>>> sorry if i already asked before.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sam V.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/25/09, Sam Dyck <samueldyck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi
>>> >
>>> > Sorry to ask for help, but I really want to start importing Geobase
>>> > data
>>> for
>>> > Manitoba and Saskatchewan. If someone is able to help me install
>>> RoadMatcher
>>> > on (open)JUMP and create Shapefiles from OSM data on a Debian
>>> > GNU/Linux
>>> > system. Again, if it is such an odious task forget it. But to the best
>>> > of
>>> > knowledge there is no one importing data for these provinces, and it
>>> would
>>> > allow me to focus on other features of the map if this data was
>>> > imported.
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> > Sam D.
>>> >
>>>
>>>
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>>
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