[Talk-ca] Suivi OSM / OSM Monitoring

Pierre Béland infosbelas-gps at yahoo.fr
Tue Oct 30 11:14:05 GMT 2012


De : James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com>

>> Geobase provides various administrative boundaries. See
>> http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/admin/index.html
>>
>> The municipal boundaries (admin_level=8) are provided by each province.
>> Admin_level 6 is also available for Ontario. The Shape files have to be
>> converted to OSM.

> Are there instructions on how to do that?

I use Merkaartor to convert from .shp to .osm.  If the .shp file is to big, I first split it into QGIS.  There are also python scripts that i did not tryé

>> Looking at the history of your Lamont county way, I see that is also part of
>> Strathcona county relation. This polygon is also broken. See
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/50382
>> A good mess! Many new mappers don't know about relations and don't care when
>> asked if they want to delete even if the way is part of a relation.

> That's the actual county definition that I was talking about... I only
> found part of the way, and not the whole relation.

> I still don't know enough about relations and the rest to be able to
> get things straightened around properly.

I have found the missingway missing 28295454. I have cut it in the northern sectionnear Pointe-aux-Pins. And Iiadded it to the Strathcona relation with role=outter.


Please validate if it is now correct.
 

Pierre 
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