[Talk-ca] Notes on a Saskatchewan import

[Tyler Gunn]

On 2011-03-02, at 8:38 PM, Brent Fraser wrote:

> Tyler,
> 
>  The problem I have with the Statscan data is they have two attributes in the shapefile:
> NAME    MacLeod
> TYPE    AVE
> 
> where I want one attribute, and according to OSM best practices, I want no abbreviations:
> 
> MacLeod Avenue
> 
> Dunno what the Canvec data will look like...
> 
> Best Regards,
> Brent Fraser



My conversion would make that a single value:
name: MacLeod Avenue

I'll email you an example of the file and you can let me know if you want the whole province ( 257mb uncompressed; 37mb compressed ).  Or I can just extract areas you want to work with.

Tyler

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