[Talk-ca] Fwd: MapServer for CanTopo GeoTIFF wms layer

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi Jeff,
Welcome aboard the talk-ca@ ship!

Yes, wms.openstreetmap.de does exist. Over on the #osm IRC are the
folks who know OSM inside and out. I dont know if there currently is
space available for it.

For now, it would be great to see if the GeoBase WMS can be made so
then it includes all the layers. Since it is already available, just
untapped.
On the GeoBase WMS wiki page i started it, but i cant find where a
'NTS grid' layer is, since that would be helpfull.
The only source i know is converting the KMZ files that are available
to GPX then making it as an .osm file then making a mapserver tile out
of it.
Having it transparent so then it can work ontop of other WMS layers
would be great.

Feel free to add yourself to the #osm-ca IRC chat, as others are
slowely getting used to it.
I'll be on it later and i'll try to explain the wishlist better.

Cheers,
Sam

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:17:27 -0300
Subject: Re: MapServer for CanTopo GeoTIFF wms layer
To: Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>
Cc: jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com

Following up on my own message:

Does OSM have a server/VM that we can use to setup MapServer and a WMS
service for this data?  I don't mind doing that on the OSM server if so.

Or, if I am misunderstanding your question to me....what exactly were
you asking me to do?

-jeff



Sam Vekemans wrote:
> Hi James,
> I think that Jeff is the one who works directly with mapServer.
> Perhaps you (Jeff) can help set up a WMS layer so then all of the
> CanTopo geoTIFFs files can be setup on a WMS layer?  So then it can be
> viewed in JOSM
> I looked at the MapWarper, but it doesn't allow for uploading these
> large TIFF files.
>
> ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/cantopo/50k_geopdf/
> ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/cantopo/50k_tif/
> I'm not sure which one is the one that is rectified.
>
> The boundary data can already be found from StatsCan and were working
> on that (converting it to osm), but there is still a need so then
> users can trace from it to help up date the map.
>
> Hopefully you (Jeff) can help out,



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