[Talk-ca] Approaching civic government for access to GIS data..

[Sam Vekemans]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Tyler Gunn <tyler at egunn.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:10:32 -0700, Sam Vekemans
> <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe you can help with the Manitoba Protected areas & Aboriginal lands?
>>
>> Sorry, i do have a template, but the new licence just gives me a
> headache.
>> The fact that more data is available to us than we currently are
>> working with, is not a bad problem to have :)
>
> You are right; there is PLENTY of data to still be imported in Winnipeg
> (and Manitoba for that matter).  It only makes sense to work on that data
> before getting ahead of myself to other sources really.
> Winnipeg has a LONG way to go before it's at a state where someone would
> look at it and say, "Wow, what a great map.".  I routinely fix missing
> street names, crossing ways that should connect, and ways that end near a
> road where they should really connect.  Fixing up all this in itself is a
> huge undertaking.
>
> I think for now I'll stick with trying to detail out Winnipeg since I have
> the local knowledge to do my best work here.  However, I'll have to take a
> look at the protected areas and aboriginal lands -- if it's something that
> I don't need local knowledge for I could add it to my list of things to do.
> :)

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NRCan_Protected_Areas#Data
It's a 7 file set covering all of Canada
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mjgdmejnz2z/nrcan_protected_areas7files.zip

They need to be all opened up & just zoom into an area in Manitoba of
the polygon & download the local OSM area to see what exists, and if
its not already in the map, copy/paste it in. :)
For some of them they are big.. so it does take time.   Over on the
#osm-ca IRC user Wbski has finished up the BC areas, so thats 1
province.   Im just working as i go along (virtually across Canada)
and filling in what i can.
For the aboriginal lands, it's a bit harder as the names are all in
CAPS and need to be fixed :)

Slowely but surley it gets done, that's why we croud source :)

Cheers,
Sam

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> Tyler
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