[Talk-ca] Provincial Parks Sample

[Adam Dunn]

For those who are still wondering, Manning Park should actually be showing
up in
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.0866&lon=-120.7647&zoom=12&layers=B000FTF
The permalink I had in my last post shouldn't have any national or
provincial parks in it.

Adam

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, because were (as you did) just loading local area parks (that each of
> us knows of directly).  We can change the tagging as we like.
>
> Feel free to change the page to whatever tags are better.   (and i can
> re-convert the dataset again with changes)
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase/NRCan_Protected_Areas
>
> In order to make a WMS layer service.  All that is needed is to change the
> format of the shp files with ogr2ogr  & make these files available.  Then
> James knows now to make a WMS layer with map.server, where it could be
> hosted onto the wms.openstreetmap.de site, so then people can just trace
> from it.   If we make it 'transparent'  this WMS can be used over top of the
> Toporama WMS.   ... while other features are being added (from the soon to
> be available canvec data) as .1x.1 degree tiles.
>
> For now, i can see that they show up (i corrected your permalink :-)
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.0345&lon=-121.9195&zoom=12&layers=B000FTF
>
> Re: Manning Park.  ya, i have no idea about the source of the data.  My
> plan is to contact Parks Canada (as soon as all the parks get loaded in)
> and share the .dbf file database & add in a column for the 'OSM ID' (
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/54452481)   (creating 1 chart per
> feature type) would make for a good spreadsheet).
> I would ask them how old the source data is, and ask to get an update from
> the BC government to update that file.
>
> Also, note that the BC Provincial Parks database is under the license that
> is not compatible with OSM, however, once all of this available data is
> loaded in the province (and all the Canvec data is loaded).   We might see
> some interest from GeoBC.  ...
>
> However, i have already contacted GeoBC (and have bugged them enough).   It
> would be better to wait until all of the Vancouver Data is available (city
> parks), or even better.. other regional area data (Nanaimo & CVRD).  ... and
> approach other towns across the province, .. so once more cities & regions
> notice that OSM is populated with all this data.  The province has the
> dataset that will be able to 'fill in the gaps'.
>
> Also, after all of the park boundaries are loaded in Ontario (the shp files
> are available) & i can convert it just the same. ... there will be some
> provincial competition.  .. where no province likes to be last... :-)
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Land_Information_Ontario#Provincial_Park_Regulated
> (there is only 337 parks, so it could all be put in 1 or 2 .osm files)  ....
> but note that some of this could be in CanVec. ... which is why im not
> converting it yet... anyone want it?
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
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