[Talk-ca] CanTopo!

[Sam Vekemans]

Cool, that just added another todo list item :)

And so, the GeoTIFFs, albiet dated, can be used as a handy backdrop background.

Sorting the data by physical geographical area, seems to be what the
cool people does these days.
NTS grid is prefered.

Cheers,
Sam

On 6/23/10, Dan Putler <dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca> wrote:
> 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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