Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline

2012-02-12 Thread Paul Norman
I have completed some tests in Northern BC replacing PGS coastline with GeoBase 
coastline. This is equivalent to extracting the coastline from CanVec. Doing 
this is largely waiting for the API  to respond, as well as verification and 
dealing with edges and rivers

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On Jan 28, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Paul Norman  wrote:

>> From: James A. Treacy [mailto:tre...@debian.org]
>> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline
>> 
>> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33:09AM -0500, Andrew Allison wrote:
>>> Hello:
>>>I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data.
>> 
>> What areas need to be replaced?
>> 
> 
> I know that some PGS coastline imports are not CT-clean. Importing a
> coastline from CanVec to replace the PGS data is on my list to-do, but I
> don't see it happening before CanVec 9.0 since the current coastline model
> is broken on the west coast and it takes about an hour a tile when there's
> no other data to replace.
> 
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Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline

2012-01-29 Thread Paul Norman


> From: David Groom [mailto:revi...@pacific-rim.net]
> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline
> - Original Message -
> From: "Andrew Allison" 
> Subject: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline
> 
> 
> > Hello:
> > I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data.
> >
> > Any gotchas that I should look out for in replacing coastline data.
> 
> 2 main ones -
> 
> A) direction ( see below),
> 
> B)  coastline ways when taken together should always form an unbroken
> line
> around a land mass.
> 
> minor "gotchas"
> 
> C)  the coastline import from PGS caused a number of small "artefacts"
> to be
> created, (many 3 node triangles of coastline appearing).  These are not
> true
> coastline, so need to be dealt with.
> 
> D) In places the coastline import was run over an area which was well
> inland
> of the true coast. The import found water bodes (lakes and rivers) in
> these
> areas, and created them as coastline.  When recreating these ways it
> would
> make sense to tag these correctly.  Note very large lakes may still have
> to
> be tagged as coastline however.
> 
> Note, that a lot off C & D's I have tried to clear up over the last few
> months, but I'm still working through them.
> 
> >
> > Pros and Cons of shorter ways.
> 
> Some of the PGS imports have created very short ways (I've come across
> whole
> km of coastline made up of many 2 or 3 node ways)
> 
> In general when I've been tidying coastlines I've tried to join any
> sections
> of coastline less than 40 nodes.
> 
> Similarly I've come across some very long ways. In general (and its a
> personal view which I don't always adhere to myself) I don't like ways
> which
> are longer than 1,000 nodes.
> 
> >
> > Does direction matter?
> 
> YES YES YES.  Coastline ways MUST be drawn with the water to the right.
> 
> >
> > How often is coastline data updated?
> 
> Do you mean, "how often is the coastline file used to render the coast
> on
> the Mapnik layer" updated.  The answer is periodically, but generally
> every
> 4 - 6 weeks
> 
> David
> 
> 
> >
> > Hope I keep every bodies feet dry and I don't damage something and
> find
> > out next month that I messed up big time.
> >
> > Or don't bother "we" are working on that :-)
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> > aka Purple Mustang.
> >

I've worked out how to get the GeoBase NHN coastline into .osm format and
plan to work on the west coast. The PGS is low resolution and there's no
other data for most of the area.

I don't want to import CanVec, partially because of the extensive coastline
cleanup work required to import it properly, partially because I don't see
that it adds value importing all of CanVec in an area where it won't be
maintained.


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Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline

2012-01-29 Thread David Groom



- Original Message - 
From: "Andrew Allison" 

To: "talk-ca" 
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 3:33 PM
Subject: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline



Hello:
I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data.

Any gotchas that I should look out for in replacing coastline data.


2 main ones -

A) direction ( see below),

B)  coastline ways when taken together should always form an unbroken line 
around a land mass.


minor "gotchas"

C)  the coastline import from PGS caused a number of small "artefacts" to be 
created, (many 3 node triangles of coastline appearing).  These are not true 
coastline, so need to be dealt with.


D) In places the coastline import was run over an area which was well inland 
of the true coast. The import found water bodes (lakes and rivers) in these 
areas, and created them as coastline.  When recreating these ways it would 
make sense to tag these correctly.  Note very large lakes may still have to 
be tagged as coastline however.


Note, that a lot off C & D's I have tried to clear up over the last few 
months, but I'm still working through them.




Pros and Cons of shorter ways.


Some of the PGS imports have created very short ways (I've come across whole 
km of coastline made up of many 2 or 3 node ways)


In general when I've been tidying coastlines I've tried to join any sections 
of coastline less than 40 nodes.


Similarly I've come across some very long ways. In general (and its a 
personal view which I don't always adhere to myself) I don't like ways which 
are longer than 1,000 nodes.




Does direction matter?


YES YES YES.  Coastline ways MUST be drawn with the water to the right.



How often is coastline data updated?


Do you mean, "how often is the coastline file used to render the coast on 
the Mapnik layer" updated.  The answer is periodically, but generally every 
4 - 6 weeks


David




Hope I keep every bodies feet dry and I don't damage something and find
out next month that I messed up big time.

Or don't bother "we" are working on that :-)


Andrew
aka Purple Mustang.


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Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Norman
> From: James A. Treacy [mailto:tre...@debian.org]
> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline
> 
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33:09AM -0500, Andrew Allison wrote:
> > Hello:
> > I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data.
> 
> What areas need to be replaced?
>

I know that some PGS coastline imports are not CT-clean. Importing a
coastline from CanVec to replace the PGS data is on my list to-do, but I
don't see it happening before CanVec 9.0 since the current coastline model
is broken on the west coast and it takes about an hour a tile when there's
no other data to replace.


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[Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline

2012-01-28 Thread Andrew Allison
Sorry I replied privately by mistake, here a group email

On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 21:36 -0500, James A. Treacy wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33:09AM -0500, Andrew Allison wrote:
> > Hello:
> > I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data.
> 
> What areas need to be replaced?
> 

I presume you mean coast line data.

good chunk of Lake St Clair,
Thames River up to Chatham,
Georgian Bay around Tobymory
Lake Simcoe, north of Barrie
Parts of Lake Superior

etc, providing that the geofabrik tool is giving a good representation
of the data purge.



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Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline

2012-01-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:36 PM, James A. Treacy  wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33:09AM -0500, Andrew Allison wrote:
>> Hello:
>>       I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data.
>
> What areas need to be replaced?

That depends where you are.

Be sure to have the latest JOSM and install the licensedetails plugin
and open the license details panel.  You'll use license details a lot.

Have a look at the OSMI license change layer for an overview.  Zoom in
to your normal mapping area.  [1 Long link.  Sorry]

Once you load an area with JOSM, press the "license check" button.
The plugin will go and get the license details info from the wfte
server.  If that info returns "too quickly" make sure you have no
objects (or all objects) selected and try again.  if you have only one
object selected, the plugin will get only the details for that one
object.  Probably not what you hoped to do.

Those license details will appear as red, orange or yellow halos
around nodes and ways.

[1] 
http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=-97.69336&lat=54.31268&zoom=4&opacity=0.49&overlays=overview,wtfe_point_clean,wtfe_line_clean,wtfe_point_harmless,wtfe_line_harmless,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_created_cp,wtfe_line_created

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Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline

2012-01-28 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:33:09AM -0500, Andrew Allison wrote:
> Hello:
>   I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data.

What areas need to be replaced?

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[Talk-ca] Clean up - natural coastline

2012-01-28 Thread Andrew Allison
Hello:
I'm in the process of recreating non-ct data.

Any gotchas that I should look out for in replacing coastline data. 

Pros and Cons of shorter ways.

Does direction matter?

How often is coastline data updated?

Hope I keep every bodies feet dry and I don't damage something and find
out next month that I messed up big time.

Or don't bother "we" are working on that :-)


Andrew
aka Purple Mustang.


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