Hi Everyone
The Canvec data for MB provincial park boundaries is horribly inaccurate
and this bothers me greatly. The government of Manitoba offers good
boundary data and a bunch of other cool stuff though the Manitoba Lands
Initiative, which I believe we can use, but I've never converted
Assuming the dataset clears legal, my preferred way of converting
shapefiles to osm is using ogr2osm
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm]. You get to write your
own tag filters in Python (two samples are provided in the
translations directory), as long as you're not doing any complicated
I prefer http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm to do the conversions.
To convert you have to write a python function that maps the shapefile
tagging to osm tagging. This is not technically very hard, but mapping to
osm tags is very easy to get wrong.
If you're using Windows, I'd suggest
I'm using an Ubuntu derived distro, so I should be good. Tyler converted
the MLI building data and has been importing it into OSM already. I've
read thought the terms, do I need to clear a import with someone?
Sam
On 11-03-25 03:32 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
I prefer
Hi,
The National Parks data will be removed from the osm api next friday,
as it will be considered 'tainted data' since the person who uploaded
the data doesn't agree to the new contributor terms.
This helps, as it makes it easier to add in the Manitoba parks data.
Since knowone volunteered, the
Thanks Sam, that saves me a lot of work. Is all the tainted data
being removed Friday, or just yours?
Sam
On 11-03-25 10:29 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:
Hi,
The National Parks data will be removed from the osm api next friday,
as it will be considered 'tainted data' since the person who uploaded
That is upto the OpenStreetMap Foundation to decide on what todo, as
they will effectivelly 'own' all the rights to the data, including all
tainted data.
We (as a community) do not have a say in this matter, unfortunatly.
cc'd the lists,
it's up to them to reply back.
cheers,
sam
On 3/25/11,
Let me clarify, will the so called tainted data still be up for the near
future, or will I be spending my week preforming hectic Canvec imports
to save street names I gathered with a pen and paper? It doesn't look
good for me
I'd suggest doing a conversion and posting a .osm file somewhere so we can
see the proposed tagging.
-Original Message-
From: Samuel Dyck [mailto:samueld...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 7:40 PM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca]
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