[Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

[Sam Vekemans]

Thanks,
Slowely but surely it's getting easier.   Awesome :)
I'm a newbie at this, but im sure there is a VisualBasic programmer
out there who can make a handy GUI with a bare-bones program. If thats
technically possable? I dont know.   ... if there's a way to avoid
installing other programs. .. maybe not. :-)

In the mean time, Austin,  is there time to meet-up in the next few
weeks or so, to run through this?

Does anyone (Frank?) know of a way to create a txt.file listing all of
the NTS Tiles (coordinates) available?  Then the script would just run
through the whole list and just use whatever tiles have actual data in
them.
Similar to now my canvec2osm.bat  file runs through and checks for the
existence of all 16 tiles, even though only a few of the 16 may be
present.    (it you don't know what i mean, please ask :)   ...

Cheers,
Sam

On 9/26/09, Steven Singer <sjsinger at alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Sam Vekemans wrote:
>
> Sam + Sam
>
> The attached script (some form of unix/linux required) should take the
> various raw shapefiles (which you will have to download from statscan,
> geobase and nrcan and the cloudmade osm extract) and populate a postgis
> database with the required data.
>
> You can then run the create-shapefile.sh script to generate stored shpfiles
> for your NTS tiles.
>
> Your steps will be
>
> 1. Install postgis + osm2pgsql
> 2. Get the datafiles for the province you want to work in
> 3. Make sure the environment variables at the top of the populate-db.sh
> script are correct (ie point to the files you've gotten etc...)
> 4. Run the populate-db.sh script.
> 5. Create a file listing the NTS tiles you want, see the top of
> create-shapefiles.sh for the format
> 6. Run create-shapefiles.sh
>
> Let me know how this works, I suspect this script will need a bit of
> tweaking before you can run it in an environment different than my own, nor
> have I done much testing of this assembled script.
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
>> 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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