[Talk-ca] Notes on a Saskatchewan import

[Brent Fraser]

Tyler,

   The values for the name keys look good!  Is the highway geometry from 
the road network or Statscan?

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser


On 3/2/2011 9:57 PM, Tyler Gunn wrote:
> On 2011-03-02, at 8:38 PM, Brent Fraser wrote:
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>> Tyler,
>>
>>   The problem I have with the Statscan data is they have two attributes in the shapefile:
>> NAME    MacLeod
>> TYPE    AVE
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>> 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
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> My conversion would make that a single value:
> name: MacLeod Avenue
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> 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.
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> Tyler
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