[Talk-ca] Bringing canvec to OSM back to life

Daniel Begin jfd553 at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 15 21:18:50 UTC 2014


Bonjour OSM lovers!

 

First, a short clarification – I do not know if Canvec will no longer (never again) be supplied in OSM format, I just know there are currently no resources allocated to work with the OSM community.

 

Second, about the Canvec conversion scripts …

-          They are owned by the crown – I would be surprised they could/would be released to the public;

-          They were all developed with FME – a powerful tool – but you usually need to pay to get the appropriate licences…

 

Third, concerning potential “diffs” files …

-          There are some references to diffs files in talk-ca archives (some were even available for few NTS through ftp site)

-          Maybe diffs files are available for Canvec? I do not know. 

 

Forth, my main concern is more about the sustained availability of the data in the ftp site L

 

Best,

Daniel

 

 

From: Chris Davis [mailto:davis.christopher at gmail.com] 
Sent: November-15-14 01:56
To: Darren Wiebe
Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Bringing canvec to OSM back to life

 

I think it would be great to see newer CanVec data in OSM as well. BC's vegetation coverage from the last import in 2010 (tagged as "natural":"wood") is horribly patchy and quite ugly in the OSM basemap and other maps.

 

Chris

 

On 14 November 2014 18:25, Darren Wiebe <darren at aleph-com.net> wrote:

I can only address point 4.  I'd love to see newer Canvec data. 

 

Darren Wiebe

 

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Andrew <andrew.allison at teksavvy.com> wrote:

Hello List:

        Given Daniel's reply that Canvec will no longer be supplied in OSM
format, I'm curious about:

1:      I don't know what I don't know to begin with :-)
2:      Are the scripts / programs available to do the conversion still
available?
3:      Was there ever a program written to produce a "diffs" file?
4:      Is there a desire to have newer Canvec data converted to OSM?

        Just throwing this out there.

        Andrew
        aka CanvecImports


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