Re: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca : français/québ écois...

2010-03-27 Thread Michel Gilbert
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Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM Sherbrooke discussion] Re: Geobase / Canvec import workshop in Sherbrooke?

2009-11-07 Thread Michel Gilbert
...@lists.coactivate.org. Please contact osm-sherbrooke-discussion-mana...@lists.coactivate.org for questions. -- Michel Gilbert ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

[Talk-ca] no preset nodes

2009-06-07 Thread Michel Gilbert
Hi osmers, Is there someone in Alberta can explain what are the no preset nodes for ? There 2 nodes at each way intersections in many cities I checked : Red Deer, Ponoka, Wetaskiwin ... Is this part of the process to connect the way intersections not created during the import ? Thanks, Michel

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: canvec2osm sample area tofino BC _with roads

2009-04-01 Thread Michel Gilbert
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:35 AM Subject: canvec2osm sample area tofino BC _with roads To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap talk-ca@openstreetmap.org, Michel Gilbert michc...@gmail.com, Steve Singer ssinger

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: canvec2osm sample area tofino BC _with roads

2009-04-01 Thread Michel Gilbert
: in josm or potlatch if you try to move the node at an intersection all the features should move. If only one move it means that the node is not shared by the features. I think it is wrong ! Michel 2009/4/1 Michel Gilbert michc...@gmail.com 2009/4/1 Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec/Geobase point feature - Render

2009-03-23 Thread Michel Gilbert
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Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec (part of GeoBase) Import update

2009-02-20 Thread Michel Gilbert
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Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec (part of GeoBase) Import update

2009-02-20 Thread Michel Gilbert
buildings... lumps them all in to the same category. Also my method does not imort NIDs. Cheers, Sam On 2/20/09, Michel Gilbert michc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sam all, The idea is good to import building entities. I think we should concentrate on polygon buildings where we'll get

Re: [Talk-ca] FME 2009 OpenStreetMap

2009-01-14 Thread Michel Gilbert
Hi all, FME is very usefull for importing geospatial data. I have been using FME to import the boundaries and NRN Geobase (tests) . At this time, FME provides a reader for osm format but not a writer. However FME allows to execute python within your FME workspace. So I simulate an osm writer in

[Talk-ca] Geobase Canadian Geopolitical Boundaries - take 2

2009-01-14 Thread Michel Gilbert
Hi all, The upload is complete. The boundaries should appear on the next release. Let's start from there. Michel ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Maritme borders in Canada

2009-01-01 Thread Michel Gilbert
2009/1/1 Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com Hi there,Reading the discussion about boarders reminds be of the interesting situation off the coast of Nova Scotia to Newfoundland, where there is an island which is Actually part of France. ... there is also an extra part of Quebec, north

Re: [Talk-ca] Deleting Ways

2008-12-31 Thread Michel Gilbert
2008/12/30 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 22:52 -0500, Michel Gilbert wrote: The new file with boundaries at 500 nodes is ready for an upload. But first I have to delete the current ones. Dear Michel, Bravo. The first run of the border import is a wonderful

[Talk-ca] Geobase Geopolitical Boundaries

2008-12-28 Thread Michel Gilbert
Hi all, I imported the Geobase Canadian Geopolitical Boundaries as described in a previous thread. The content is defined at the wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GeoBase:_Canadian_Geopolitical_Boundarie s . The upload took about 10 hours. I uploaded 162 305 nodes and 503 ways. I

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase to OSM attribute mapping.

2008-12-27 Thread Michel Gilbert
2008/12/26 Jason Reid o...@bowvalleytechnologies.com James Ewen wrote: Just looking at some attributes... The alleyway/lane is currently mapped as highway:service. I would suggest that highway:service is more appropriate. Here's the description for a sevice road: Generally for

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase Node Import idea ver 1.0

2008-12-17 Thread Michel Gilbert
Hi Sam, 2008/12/17 Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com Hi there, After some serious review, (writing a hudge essays about the answer to the question. What do you want to get from GeoBase? (Answer: a better free wiki map showing more of Canada) and Why Import GeoBase to

Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Road Network

2008-12-11 Thread Michel Gilbert
2008/12/11 Brent Fraser bfra...@geoanalytic.com Kevin, Good point. I got excited by the unrestricted-use claim... Kevin Farrugia wrote: Would the StatsCan Data be available to us though (to input into OSM based on our license)? After reading the license agreement it sounds a bit iffy

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian data - GeoGratis (and an accuracy rant)

2008-12-10 Thread Michel Gilbert
2008/12/10 Matt Wilkie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Brent, thanks for bringing up the oft-overlooked and even more often misunderstood confusion of accuracy over precision. Most (some? all?) of the CanVec data originally came from the 1:50,000 NTS topographic maps . Precision and accuracy is a

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase Import Rev 2 - where we stand now CanVec (like Ibycus before combined maps)

2008-12-09 Thread Michel Gilbert
2008/12/9 Steve Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Sam Vekemans wrote: So anyway... No bother with GeoBase anymore... as it's CanVec which has all the data already done. With respect to the road network one thing to consider is update frequency. The Canvec data is updated

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase wiki pages

2008-12-08 Thread Michel Gilbert
2008/12/8 Richard Weait [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does it make sense to split up the GeoBase Import pages by database? Perhaps somebody with some wiki-fu could look at this for us? As we fill things in on the current page it will soon be too long a page to be easily managed. I'm imagining:

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase Import - Where we stand now

2008-12-06 Thread Michel Gilbert
2008/12/6 Sam Vekemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, cool :) Lots of great discussion points.Again, I'll try to summarize with this info, and hopefully setting somethings as a foundation. (in story form) Basic questions: What do we want to accomplish with the OpenStreetMap project? and What do

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase Import - Where we stand now

2008-12-06 Thread Michel Gilbert
2008/12/6 Steve Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Michel Gilbert wrote: I need some clarification about the parallel database (PostGIS). I am sure I see the whole picture of the Geobase Import process. Who is going to host the change tracking PostGIS database ? How are we going

Re: [Talk-ca] terminology

2008-12-05 Thread Michel Gilbert
2008/12/5 Richard Weait [EMAIL PROTECTED] You know, I thought highway=motorway should be highway=highway, but this points out a more fundamental issue. :-) Geobase has Freeway and Highway classifications. The migration of TIGER files used motorway. For me, I think homogenous tagging is more

Re: [Talk-ca] Import Geobase Geopolitical Boundaries

2008-12-04 Thread Michel Gilbert
: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Michel Gilbert wrote: Hi all, I have worked on the Geobase Canadian Geopolitical Boundaries. I took the prov_ab_p_geo83_e.shp file that contains the administrative The results ftp://ftp.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/nsprod/mg/osm/ can be seen with JOSM but it is very

[Talk-ca] Import Geobase Geopolitical Boundaries

2008-12-02 Thread Michel Gilbert
Hi all, I have worked on the Geobase Canadian Geopolitical Boundaries. I took the prov_ab_p_geo83_e.shp file that contains the administrative areas: provinces and Territories and convert them as OSM boundaries. First, I prepared Geobase Geopolitical Boundaries - OSM map

Re: [Talk-ca] importing GeoBase Data (learning from TIGER)

2008-11-26 Thread Michel Gilbert
Hi all, 2008/11/26 Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 01:40 -0800, Sam Vekemans wrote: I do think it was important to have things broken up geographically. It makes it much easier if something goes bad to find the data, remove it,

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase import idea render=no

2008-11-25 Thread Michel Gilbert
Hi, Thank you Sam to bring good ideas. I agree with you that if we put the data available on OSM it will create a bigger community around the OSM. The 'render=no' tag is a good idea to flag conflicts or potential conflicts. But first, we should develop automatic import processes to load without