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2009-01-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
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[Talk-ca] GeoBase import more questions and ideas

2009-01-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi Dale, in answer to the other questions; I have a question to throw out there... > > Can someone point me to an API or tutorial or something for OSM that > discusses uploading manipulating the data (in a way that could be scripted)? > I've seen the web interface, but obviously that is no good f

[Talk-ca] email message: spam

2009-01-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
It looks like my last message showed up on the talk-ca list for some reason from my hotmail account. I removed talk-ca as a contact of hotmail, so hopefully it wont show again. Sorry about that, Sam ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase import more questions and ideas

2009-01-01 Thread richard
Dale asked some things and Sam answered below: >> I'm of the impression that there are: >> a) a set of built in 'tags' that the rendering engine uses. (is there an >> exhaustive list anywhere) These should get you started. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features http://wiki.openstreetmap.

[Talk-ca] Maritme borders in Canada

2009-01-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi there,Reading the discussion about boarders reminds be of the interesting situation off the coast of Nova Scotia to Newfoundland, where there is an island which is Actually part of France. ... there is also an extra part of Quebec, north of Prince Edward Island (Magdelene islands). So tagging ge

Re: [Talk-ca] What we dont know from GeoBase

2009-01-01 Thread Richard Degelder
On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 00:30 -0700, Dale Atkin wrote: > > > From: samvekem...@gmail.com [mailto:samvekem...@gmail.com] On Behalf > Of Sam Vekemans > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:43 PM > To: Richard Degelder; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org; Dale Atkin; Michel > Gilbert; Mepham, Michael > Subjec

[Talk-ca] Using geobase postGarmin data to OSM

2009-01-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool,You made a good point. re: Using geobase postGarmin format data to OSM. Because with the Garmin Format, we are limited to the set number of defined map feature types to choose from. So all the GeoBase data, needs to fit into one of the Garmin Categories. .. and in many cases, thats hard to d

Re: [Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap Canada

2009-01-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
Thanks, I cc'd to Talk-ca discussion list, as yes, this is a volunteer group working on the project. What i plan on doing (hopefully) is getting those regional images, showing the state of the map as each can be shown on the various wiki pages. Thanks for keeping us on the radar, Sam Vekemans Acro

Re: [Talk-ca] What we dont know from GeoBase

2009-01-01 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Dale Atkin wrote: > I'm sorry if some of the above has come off as a little abrupt, but I'm > getting a little frustrated over here. I feel like I have a solution which > should work, and should provide a better overall mapset for everyone, and > provide means for

[Talk-ca] Geobase NRN import script

2009-01-01 Thread Jason Reid
Thanks to some patches from Steve Singer, I've committed a new version of the NRN import script to the SVN repository. This version uses the python OGR bindings to better process the source data, and Steve also worked out a system to merge junction nodes together (earlier versions of the script

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase NRN import script

2009-01-01 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jason Reid wrote: > The script will generate a single OSM file per GML file, so 1 per > province currently. Any plans on how to merge the OSM and GeoBase files into one database? > The mapping between the Geobase tags and OSM tags is a work in progress > still, i

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase NRN import script

2009-01-01 Thread Jason Reid
James Ewen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jason Reid > wrote: > > >> The script will generate a single OSM file per GML file, so 1 per >> province currently. >> > > Any plans on how to merge the OSM and GeoBase files into one database? > > >> The mapping between the Geobase ta

Re: [Talk-ca] What we dont know from GeoBase

2009-01-01 Thread richard
James Ewen said: > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Dale Atkin wrote: > >> I'm sorry if some of the above has come off as a little abrupt, but I'm >> getting a little frustrated over here. I feel like I have a solution >> which >> should work, [ ... ] > Dale, I seem to have missed out on your des

[Talk-ca] types of merges (for an ideal world)

2009-01-01 Thread richard
In an ideal world, we would be able to snap our fingers and have Geobase and other data sets merged into OSM in a magical way that allows future updates, maintains community contributions, and fights climate change. We don't live in that ideal world, and snapping my fingers hasn't done the job. S

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase NRN import script

2009-01-01 Thread Steve Singer
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, James Ewen wrote: > Can you slice the GML file up into chunks? We could manually start the > import process by manually defining areas where we want to start > importing data. Areas chosen by users with little or no existing data. The geobase2osm.py script lets you pass a bou

[Talk-ca] types of merges (for an ideal world)

2009-01-01 Thread richard
In an ideal world, we would be able to snap our fingers and have Geobase and other data sets merged into OSM in a magical way that allows future updates, maintains community contributions, and fights climate change. We don't live in that ideal world, and snapping my fingers hasn't done the job. S

[Talk-ca] RoadMatcher

2009-01-01 Thread Steve Singer
I've been playing around with RoadMatcher (http://www.jump-project.org/project.php?PID=RM&SID=OVER) and thought I'd share some of my findings. I've put both a planet.osm dump and some of the NRN provinces into a PostGIS database and have pointed roadmatcher at it. I use auto-match only (no

Re: [Talk-ca] Maritme borders in Canada

2009-01-01 Thread Michel Gilbert
2009/1/1 Sam Vekemans > Hi there,Reading the discussion about boarders reminds be of the > interesting situation off the coast of Nova Scotia to Newfoundland, where > there is an island which is Actually part of France. > ... there is also an extra part of Quebec, north of Prince Edward Island >

[Talk-ca] Geobase NRN import script

2009-01-01 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Jason Reid wrote: > In terms of actually adding the data into OSM, the only real solution is to > use the API and the bulk_upload tool (or a tool with equivalent > functionality). But that bulk_upload tool has no provisions for checking for and possibly matching e

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase NRN import script

2009-01-01 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Steve Singer wrote: > The geobase2osm.py script lets you pass a bounds file (with the -b option). > This will only include roads that pass through the bounds specified in the > file. So you can take the full provincial GML files but only generate .osm > files for

[Talk-ca] GeoBase Goals

2009-01-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
Thanks James,I guess you missed my last message (understanding the role Ibycus can & could play), but thats OK. I'm scatter-brained by nature, so i am thinking about all aspects of the project at once. I see the project as a complete project "The Across Canada Trails Project" ... This includes t

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase Goals

2009-01-01 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote: > I guess you missed my last message (understanding the role Ibycus can & > could play), but thats OK. No, I probably saw it, just couldn't figure out what you were trying to convey, or don't believe that the role is as important as you do. >