[Talk-ca] CanTopo!

[Sam Vekemans]

JOSM is currently allergic to GeoTIFFs.
The only direct way around it is to use the PicLayer plugin and take a
screanshot view of an area and manually move it around.

An option is to use mapwarper to make a wms of it, that requires
making control points. So i dont know what is faster.

Russell knows the better method.

Jump on the #osm-ca IRC and bug me about the shp files for admin boundaries.
Lots of things going on, so todo items tend to get pushed to the side.

Cheers,
Sam

On 6/23/10, Tyler Gunn <tyler at egunn.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> So out of curiosity, does Markaator allow direct opening of the TIFF
> files?  JOSM doesn't seem to allow this.
> What procedure would be involved in aligning these TIFFs to reality?
>
>
>> 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.
>
> Would the CanVec data not include all of this data?  Or is it a completely
> separate data set?
>
> I took at look at the TIFF for Portage La Prairie in MB (near me):
> ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/cantopo/50k_tif/062/g/cantopo_062g16_tif.zip
> I did notice the city boundaries in there.  Hmm, that's always good to
> see...  :)  The data is out there, we just need to find it.
>
> Tyler
>


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