[Talk-ca] Canvec attributes (roads)

[John Marshall]

Great idea Martijn,

One of the big problems of OSM in Canada is there are many missing road
where there are no local mappers. Canada is very big. Any tools to help map
unmapped area of Canada gets a big +1 from me.

John

John Marshall

On Sep 9, 2016 17:36, "Martijn van Exel" <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A few colleagues at Telenav and myself are looking at Canvec 2016. Roads
> specifically. I am sure some of you already have done that. Something we
> are looking into a workflow that is something like this (simplified):
>
> Canvec 2016 Shapefiles --> Conflation engine (Cygnus [1]) --> Tasking
> manager
>
> The output of the conflation would be an OSM XML change file that could
> be (selectively) applied in JOSM. It would contain new / changed ways as
> well as some new or changed tags. All proposed updates would be verified
> manually (through tasking manager.)
>
> What do you think about this idea?
>
> The conflation engine takes OSM PBF as input, so the Canvec shapefiles
> would need to be translated (using ogr2osm). That would require an
> ogr2osm translation file. I wonder if someone already did this? (I am
> using this [2] attribute list as reference.)
>
> [1]https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/37808
> [2]http://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/vector/canvec/
> doc/CanVec_Catalogue_50K_Transport/SRDB_EXPL_ESSIM_50K_
> Transport-sd-en.html#div-1330009
> --
>   Martijn van Exel
>   m at rtijn.org
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