[Talk-ca] Importing CanVec

[Samuel]

Thanks, I'm importing tile 064A01 and I'll see how that goes.

Sam

john whelan wrote:
> The CANVEC data is available her ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/osm/pub
>
> Read this page first:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec especially the bit about the tiles.
>
> I would suggest you load up a tile in JOSM then hit the download arrow
> to bring in the same area from OSM.  I usually resize the JOSM window
> to keep the downloaded area roughly the same as the leaded file.
>
> Then use layers inspect the downloaded area.  Back to the CANVEC tile
> and select the items you want to import.  Use Edit merge selection,
> back to the data layer and hit the upload button.
>
> I suggest selecting one attribute at a time so if there are no roads
> there select highway=whatever then merge it up.  JOSM and the upload
> process isn't 100% reliable so by keeping the uploads fairly small it
> seems to work better.
>
> Cheerio John
>
>
>
> On 12 September 2010 21:22, Samuel <samueldyck at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> After thinking about it for a while, I realized that I can keep relying on
>> others to do CanVec imports for me, so I resolved to figure out how to do it
>> myself. I have a few questions.
>>
>> 1. Can and import be done using just JOSM?
>> 2. If not, how do I convert the SHP file to OSM XML?
>> 3. How do I merge the existing OSM data into the CanVec data?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Sam
>>
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