[Talk-ca] CanTopo!

[Dan Putler]

Hi Sam,

In shapefile format, the natural choice is Statistics Canada Census 
Subdivision boundaries (the most recent is for 2010). Census 
subdivisions are typically municipalities or equivalents. Here is the 
link: 
http://geodepot.statcan.gc.ca/2006/040120011618150421032019/031904_05-eng.jsp

The data is under a similar (the same?) unlimited use license as the NRN.

Dan

On 06/23/2010 07:22 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm cc'ing your notice to talk-ca.
>
> So the CanMatrix TIFFs, although georeferenced, they are older.
> However, they can still be used with Merkaarator.
>
> For those of you who have been under a rock about Merkaarator, (like
> me) the editing tool is very good.
> It allows nice viewing of WMS layers, which seems to be better than JOSM.
>
> Whats surprising, is that the area which is the Capital Region
> District boundary, as well as the backroads are actually available.
>
> This significant for  ALL of Canada, because it means that there is no
> need to approach the cities about data, until these CanTopo&
> CanMatrix PDFs and TIFFs have been fully exhausted.
>
> So on top of the CanVec data, that were all looking forward to seeing,
> we can further detail the OSM map with this stuff.
>
> Note: City Boundary data could very well be available as SHP files. If
> anyone finds it, please do share :-), then we can create a rules.txt
> and make the .osm files available.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
> On 6/23/10, Russell<skiinfobc at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Good news,
>>
>> I finally found a way to export GeoPDFs to GeoTIFF with GlobalMapper 11. So
>> if you want some cantopos converted for Merkaartor usage, let me know and I
>> can take care of that. You can download a few tiffs I converted here:
>> http://cantopo.russellporter.ca/
>> For some reason, 092j02 is waay off what is in OSM, but the other two are
>> fine.. Not sure what is up but maybe everything has been traced on Yahoo
>> imagery in Whistler causing the problem? Anyways 092j03 and 092g06 are fine
>> which is what is important for me.
>>
>> Russell
>>
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