Re: [Xastir] Water/hydrology shapefiles for Canada?
It's been a week since anyone's said anything about this. Has any progress been made? -Joe, N8FQ Joe Veldhuis wrote: Much as the subject implies, I am wondering if anyone has come across any good sources of water/hydrology shapefiles for Canada. The Tiger shapefiles for the US look great, but the parts of Canada in my usual map view look depressingly dead in comparison without similar data. ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Water/hydrology shapefiles for Canada?
Ping me Monday afternoon (allowing me to get past Monday morning...) and I'll see if Tom's back in his office and ask. Private e-mail or [EMAIL PROTECTED] are the two best ways gerry Joe Veldhuis wrote: It's been a week since anyone's said anything about this. Has any progress been made? -Joe, N8FQ Joe Veldhuis wrote: Much as the subject implies, I am wondering if anyone has come across any good sources of water/hydrology shapefiles for Canada. The Tiger shapefiles for the US look great, but the parts of Canada in my usual map view look depressingly dead in comparison without similar data. ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- Gerry Creager -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas AM University Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Water/hydrology shapefiles for Canada?
Joe Veldhuis wrote: Much as the subject implies, I am wondering if anyone has come across any good sources of water/hydrology shapefiles for Canada. The Tiger shapefiles for the US look great, but the parts of Canada in my usual map view look depressingly dead in comparison without similar data. On a sidenote, has anyone come up with a good .dbfawk for the Geobase.ca road shapefiles? -Joe, N8FQ Hi Joe. I use shapefiles for British Columbia from here: http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/Publications/catalog/bcgeolmap.htm You can't download the hydrology files separately, but each zip file has separate shapefiles for lakes, rivers, roads (major), railway, etc. You'll want the Geographic projection maps. Haven't looked at other provinces. If you find something, let us know. Regarding the .dbfawk for Geobase.ca roads, I do have one, but I wouldn't call it good. Just displays roads in grey and 4 lane highways in wide red. Mike Fenske VE7MKF ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Water/hydrology shapefiles for Canada?
Curt, WE7U wrote: Naw, this one: http://wiki.ampr2.net/nwaprs/XastirMaps I am getting an error when I try to create a profile to login. IOError[Errno 13] Permission denied: 'data/user/1190394666.64.41206' Any ideas? Mike VE7MKF ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Water/hydrology shapefiles for Canada?
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Mike Fenske wrote: I am getting an error when I try to create a profile to login. IOError[Errno 13] Permission denied: 'data/user/1190394666.64.41206' Any ideas? Yea. Talk to Bill Vodall, wa7nwp about it. Since we have our own Xastir Wiki now, it might be advisable that we port existing pages on wiki.ampr2.net over to our own, then get rid of the external references. I don't think we have too many pages that reference that Wiki at present. -- Curt, WE7U: www.eskimo.com/~archer/ XASTIR: www.xastir.org Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Water/hydrology shapefiles for Canada?
On 9/21/07, Joe Veldhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also took the one that James posted for the Geobase.ca road maps and hacked at it a bit. My goal was to make them look the same as the Tiger road maps, and that's pretty much what it does, although it doesn't correctly set the street labels yet. It might only work with the ON map, as that's the one I'm working with (going by James' call, his was probably based on the headers for the AB map). I would like to get the output looking like the Tiger Maps as well, but have found that a little difficult, as you need more information than just road data. A hydrology layer would be second on my list, followed by land use such as parks and other polygons. The dbfawk that I sent you just barely started to make the roads show up with slightly different attributes. I found it difficult to tailor the output nicely as the road classifications can make it difficult. A ramp can be a turn lane separated from the main traffic lanes on a residential street by an island right up to mile long stretches of primary highway on/off ramps. Trying to find a happy medium where you aren't driving in a field at 110 km/hr, but still don't have inner city turn lanes showing up at wide zoom levels is difficult. I never even took a stab at trying to parse out road names. James VE6SRV ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
[Xastir] Water/hydrology shapefiles for Canada?
Much as the subject implies, I am wondering if anyone has come across any good sources of water/hydrology shapefiles for Canada. The Tiger shapefiles for the US look great, but the parts of Canada in my usual map view look depressingly dead in comparison without similar data. On a sidenote, has anyone come up with a good .dbfawk for the Geobase.ca road shapefiles? -Joe, N8FQ ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
