[Talk-ca] Changing admin level (provinces) to render like US states

Hi, I realize that this will be alot of work and will add it to my todo list :-) It still looks like the provincial borders should be changed so that its visable from a few more zoom levels. Can someone explain why its not done yet? Perhaps im missing something? (i can do this when im importing

Re: [Talk-ca] Changing admin level (provinces) to render like US states

On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 04:42 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote: > > It still looks like the provincial borders should be changed so that > its visable from a few more zoom levels. > > Can someone explain why its not done yet? Perhaps im missing > something? None of the US state border is visible either.

Re: [Talk-ca] Merging OSM + Geobase

Hello all! Let me add my words on that tread. But first let me quote Dave and William "If the Geobase stuff is highly superior to the existing OSM stuff, I promise you that the mappers doing the OSM work will come to you and ask for the Geobase data" Dave Hansen "To me it just makes no

Re: [Talk-ca] Changing admin level (provinces) to render like US states

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Sam Vekemans wrote: > It still looks like the provincial borders should be changed so that > its visable from a few more zoom levels. You can't force the renders to do something they don't want to do. > Can someone explain why its not done yet? Perhaps im missin

Re: [Talk-ca] Changing admin level (provinces) to render like US states

On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 12:02 -0600, James Ewen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Sam Vekemans > wrote: > > > It still looks like the provincial borders should be changed so that > > its visable from a few more zoom levels. > > You can't force the renders to do something they don't want to

Re: [Talk-ca] Next road import area

Hi Sam, Thought you might want to see some of the results of making that Geobase data available to me in a format JOSM can use. Here is a section of the city which i had partially mapped with GPS traces and my bike, but using the geobase data, i was able to fill it in much more: http://www.inform

Re: [Talk-ca] Next road import area

Hi, my guess is that you were tracing the CanVec Roads from the .zip file i sent you? If so, the reason it's still in Beta Phase, is that it needs to show "source=" tags, so people who where you got the data from. Also, keeping all the UUID tags is important. For the GeoBase2osm script, that's S

[Talk-ca] Road Names from StatsCan

I've been successful in having RoadMatcher match GeoBase with StatsCan roads and have modified geobase2osm.py to use the names from the result file if geobase has no road. A sample for the Hamilton/Oakville area can be found at http://www.mediafire.com/?mtinjzte7yh I haven't yet done much ch