Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-21 Thread Pierre Béland
Frank The NEtiquette is always important in these circumstances. Lets hope this mapper will learn how to deal with the community. I Looked rapidly at the data.I see a multipolygon natural=wood Relation : 2362646 that contains 72 members. I see that you imported a wooded area way=176778952

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-21 Thread Pierre Béland
I didn't do Canvec imports too much. Looking at various lakes in wooded areas,  I now realize that Canvec imports are often (always?) duplicating lakes. I do'nt know what was the reason to create these duplicate ways in the Canvec import file.  Should we duplicate the lakes to apply a inner

[Talk-ca] Getting the speed limit for a given latitude/longitude

2012-08-21 Thread René Fournier
Looking for suggestions... I need to create a web service that, given a latitude/longitude coordinate that lies on a major road or highway, returns a maximum speed limit. Looking at services like http://www.itoworld.com/map/35#fullscreen, it's clear that much of the data is there. What's the

Re: [Talk-ca] Getting the speed limit for a given latitude/longitude

2012-08-21 Thread René Fournier
Yes, that's what I'm now working towards. Just downloaded and decompressed the OSM dataset for North America. Around 27 GB. In view of my application, what would you say is the best way to import? I'm running PostGIS 1.5.4. osm2pgsql or Osmosis? On 2012-08-21, at 4:22 PM, Richard Weait

Re: [Talk-ca] Getting the speed limit for a given latitude/longitude

2012-08-21 Thread René Fournier
Hi Richard et al, So, I've used osm2pgsql to import the canada.osm file into PostgreSQL: osm2pgsql --latlong -d speed_limits_canada canada.osm -U postgres Seems to have done the job: Node stats: total(132433150), max(1873380872) in 1150s Way stats: total(8281053), max(176854853) in

Re: [Talk-ca] New Lower Mainland Imagery sources

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Norman
You're supposed to copy and paste the URL from the table or click on the link, not copy the link. I'll see if I can clarify that in the documentation. From: Matthew Buchanan [mailto:matthew.ian.bucha...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:01 PM To: Paul Norman Cc: