[Talk-ca] Canvec attributes (roads)

[James]

Plus it would help identify which parts and canvec are actually needed vs
importing a bunch of forests and hoping for some roads

On Sep 11, 2016 2:48 PM, "John Marshall" <rps333 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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_Trans
>> port-sd-en.html#div-1330009
>> --
>>   Martijn van Exel
>>   m at rtijn.org
>>
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