[Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 35, Issue 20

[Gerald]

Sam,

Can you give me a link to the shp files? I didn't find them on
mediafire. Or have they been uploaded yet?

I did this myself for some parts of Cape Breton. Much more work than I
expected.

Thanks


On 1/27/11 08:00 , talk-ca-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:56:13 -0800
> From: Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>
> To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca at openstreetmap.org>,	post
> 	<post at posterous.com>, "OSGeo Local Chapter, British Columbia,	Canada"
> 	<osgeo-bc at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [Talk-ca] CanVec National/Provincial SHP files - already done
> 	somewhere?
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I have begun the process of converting the CanVec National and
> Provincial GML files into shp file, and filtering down the shp file
> into 1 shp file per canvec map feature (code).
> 
> 
> I've already converted most of the features, and will be done
> processing them in the next few weeks.  I'll have the resulting .shp
> files available on my mediafire.com folder.
> 
> 
> 
> Has anyone already created the .shp files (1 feature per file, and
> split by province where the file is too big) and then further split by
> feature attribute where needed.
> 
> 
> 
> These resulting .shp files are usefull, as many applications can work
> with it, and it's nice to have a map layer of just 1 featuer per layer
> (im uploading the layers to koordinates.com and perhaps
> geocommons.com) as well as making .osm files and garmin map files :)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Sam
> 

-- 
Gerald