[Talk-ca] NTS Tile Grid for JOSM as WMS

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Jan Tappenbeck created a cool perl script that will create a GPX track
> file that is in a grid form.   Awesome
> http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/osm-matrix/
>
> So from the instructions, i think it shouldn't be that hard to make a
> national grid.
>
> perl osm-matrix.pl --name=chile --w=-73.8 --n=-32.65 --e=-69.25 --s=-38.65
>
>
> What i did is used the steps i wrote here
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada_NTS_Tile_System#Sample
> and made a sample file of the 011 area.
> The KMZ file that NRCan provides  has a nice POI in the centre of each
> square.  This is helpfil to users.
>
> What i'd like to see (somehow)  is the entire grid of Canada created
> like this, and available as a Transparent WMS layer, so then the Users
> can have this layer open while using the Toporama or GeoBaseNHN wms or
> the (future CanTopoGeoTIFF  WMS).
>
> So showing a point and also showing the name and description of the
> tile area '011D12 Halifax'
>
> So it would be awesome to get this done.   It's a little labour
> intensive as i have to copy each of the converted .gpx files into the
> same MapSource file, and do that 16 times over.   Perhaps there is a
> way to automate the process?

well you can script it, also in shell.
for x in *.xyz; do echo $x; process $x; done

>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
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