[Talk-ca] CanVec Import /Datum

2009-12-08 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Hi all, Last weekend was held a Canvec Import mapping party in Sherbrooke. One of the participant asked if there were significant differences between NAD83 (Canvec and GeoBase datum) and WGS84 (Osm datum) e.g.: are converted Canvec file would fit the Osm data? As nobody known if there was a

Re: [Talk-ca] GIS data

2009-12-08 Thread Sam Vekemans
Great, Thanks. Please contact Frank Steggink, as he is the one in charge of organizing all data thats available to be used in OSM for Canada. Also, if you have any connections with GeoBC, it would be great to encourage that dataset to also be made available to the public (or just the data that

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Canvec import

2009-12-08 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, Thanks for explaining that well. What was not mentioned is that CanVec is just 1 of the many datasets that are available. GeoBase also covers Nationally, but is stored in provincial files. (and has overlap) Geogratis that has the CanVec data, also has many other datasets available.

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Canvec import

2009-12-08 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Sam, I'll try to keep it short, and I won't crosspost to Imports and OSM dev Sherbrooke. Only the original message was posted to those lists as well, since there have been Canvec-related discussions on them in the past. What was not mentioned is that CanVec is just 1 of the many datasets