Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca] Batch transformation from rcn_ref=1 to Route

2011-03-10 Thread john whelan
This is a better way. Cheerio John 2011/3/10 Pierre (PierZen) > Bonjour Alouette955, > > Je réponds rapidement à ta question et nous pourrons reprendre lundi. D'ici > là je ne serai pas disponible. > > Tu peux télécharger les données à partir d'une requête adressée à l'API 0.6 > de OSM. Voici

Re: [Talk-ca] Batch transformation from rcn_ref=1 to Route

2011-03-10 Thread john whelan
There are two ways to do this, the polite way which is to get hold of one of the subsets of the planet files locally and work with that. Use a PC with lots of memory and load up the local file, do the edits then upload the changes. You may want to split Quebec up to do this. I'd recommend using

[Talk-ca] Talk-ca] Batch transformation from rcn_ref=1 to Route

2011-03-10 Thread Pierre (PierZen)
Bonjour Alouette955, Je réponds rapidement à ta question et nous pourrons reprendre lundi. D'ici là je ne serai pas disponible. Tu peux télécharger les données à partir d'une requête adressée à l'API 0.6 de OSM. Voici deux liens ci-dessous. Si un ne fonctionne pas, essaies le deuxième. http://

Re: [Talk-ca] Batch transformation from rcn_ref=1 to Route

2011-03-10 Thread Daniel Begin
Hi John I understand that alouette995 is trying to find/get all object in Quebec with rcn_ref=1 tag. Is there a way to do such a request? By the way, I might be interested in your VB program :-) Daniel _ From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] Sent: March-10-11 1

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec Vs. TIGER

2011-03-10 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Sam, The TIGER data in OSM was done a number of years ago (from the 2006 TIGER/Line release). Since then the US Census Bureau has devoted a lot of resources to improve the accuracy of TIGER data, which I don't think is (I could be wrong) reflected in OSM. The old TIGER data had many of the

[Talk-ca] CanVec Vs. TIGER

2011-03-10 Thread Samuel Dyck
Hi everyone I'm at home recovering from dental surgery, so I've had the opportunity to get a lot of imports done. But I've been importing along the US border alot, and have ran into some trouble with TIGER Data and need some advice. My problems are as follows: -Importing near the geopolitica

Re: [Talk-ca] Batch transformation from rcn_ref=1 to Route

2011-03-10 Thread john whelan
One technique is simply to use JOSM, select the ways you want to modify then add the tag to all the ways in the selection. You can also delete tags in this way as well. Just be aware that standardization seems to be a word that OSM is not always comfortable with. The other technique if you are h

[Talk-ca] Batch transformation from rcn_ref=1 to Route

2011-03-10 Thread alouette955
Hi, I am new in OSM world ... my project is to develop and improve the OpenCycleMap for the province of Quebec. I recently acquired the skills to edit tags for Cycleways and I am now confortable. Now for my problem... I realise that a lot of contributors have develop the Regional Cycling Netw