Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Pierre, Regarding the duplicated ways, I'll get to that by replying Daniel's mail. Regarding the toponyms, the user I'm having contact with is refering to Sûreté de Québec, for example this page:

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Daniel, Pierre, It is possible to reuse ways in the OSM datamodel, as you know. It is also possible to do this, while having to make extracts later. For example, when you only want to select lakes, you should do the following in JOSM: * Select natural=water, replace selection * Select

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Pierre Béland
Frank,  I dont think we can considere these as Open Data compatible with ODbl. We dont know the license for Surete du Québec map. And no licensing information is given on the toponyms site.  You would have to contact them before using this information. The government of Québec has just

Re: [Talk-ca] Données libres Gouvernement du Québec

2012-08-22 Thread Pierre Béland
Bonjour Bruno, Il faut battre le fer tandis qu'il est chaud. Ces discussions sur la licence seront sûrement utiles dans un deuxième temps pour discuter avec la ville de Québec. Leur licence est très similaire à celle du gouvernement du Québec.   Pierre De 

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Norman
I see the problem as being the importing of everything as being the problem, not the geometric model :) From: Daniel Begin [mailto:jfd...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:49 PM To: 'Pierre Béland'; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues Bonjour

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] canvec import in ontario

2012-08-22 Thread Robin Paulson
On 29 July 2012 21:21, Jesse Davis eccent...@slavery.cx wrote: I'd like to import some canvec data for the area just north of Plevna, Ontario, Canada (NTS 031F02), which has not been imported and for the most part is completely blank. I have downloaded the most recent canvec 10 data and it

Re: [Talk-ca] [Talk-us] US-Canadian border

2012-08-22 Thread Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
Ah that makes more sense, but not sure how it explains http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.81868lon=-66.91419zoom=15layers=M Ccing talk-ca on this -Original Message- From: James Umbanhowar [mailto:jumba...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:15 AM To:

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Béland Pierre
David and Paul, do you think this was the problem with these imports???   Pierre De : David E. Nelson denelso...@yahoo.ca À : Paul Norman penor...@mac.com; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mercredi 22 août 2012 21h59 Objet :