Re: [Talk-ca] OSM PEI Canada

2012-12-03 Thread Robert Shand
Hi Danny, The apps you mention could be doing a variety of things with the data…. they may have old data, and as you say they may only be rendering certain things to their tiles (I'm assuming that they're rendering their own tile data). The beauty of OSM is that the data can be there in the

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM PEI

2012-11-26 Thread Robert Shand
I've done some off and on. And I know of a few people who make use and contribute now and again too. B On 2012-11-26, at 12:29 PM, Danny Lane lane...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody doing OSM on Prince Edward Island, Canada? Danny ___ Talk-ca mailing

[Talk-ca] Different account for Canvec data

2011-06-08 Thread Robert Shand
Based off of a recent discussion I'm looking at creating a new account for the Canvec data I'm importing. I just want to clarify what things I should setup when I create my account. Specifically how should I answer In addition to the above agreement, I consider my contributions to be in the

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product - Running!

2010-11-30 Thread Robert Shand
Thanks Daniel! So if I'm working on importing canvec data - should I wait until the tiles I'm importing are complete before I continue? B On 2010-11-30, at 5:46 PM, Richard Weait wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca wrote: Bonjour OSMers!

Re: [Talk-ca] Google Streetview

2010-03-09 Thread Robert Shand
On 2010-03-08, at 7:07 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:39:52 -0500, Colin McGregor wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:26 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, my last message just got me wondering about other issues... We all know that it is not appropriate to copy

[Talk-ca] Errors importing NRN shapefiles

2010-02-27 Thread Robert Shand
Hi Everyone, I'm once again playing with NRN import now that I have more free time. I noticed I'm getting some errors importing the shapefile into my gis database shp2pgsql -s 4326 NRN_PE_8_0_ROADSEG nrn_roadseg | psql -d gis -f - snip psql:stdin:16493: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Robert Shand
copyright status 3) We approach the government again for suitable licensing terms showing them before/after map shots taken from 1. Trying to prove to them the value of opening the data. What does everyone else think? Cheers Bob On 2010-01-28, at 8:13 AM, Robert Shand wrote: There was some talk

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Robert Shand
On 2010-02-11, at 10:26 AM, Sam Vekemans wrote: #2600075 September 23, 2009 21:57Kings County Civic Addresses (http://www.gov.pe.ca/civicaddress/download/index.php3) #2691911 September 30, 2009 22:18Prince County Civic Addresses

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread Robert Shand
On 2010-02-11, at 11:18 AM, Richard Weait wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Robert Shand b...@shand.org.uk wrote: On 2010-02-11, at 10:26 AM, Sam Vekemans wrote: I also like Franks idea of hosting tiles rendered, so an example can be shown. (and Daniel just mentioned

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-01-28 Thread Robert Shand
There was some talk locally about the civic address import. I'm not sure of the exact status on the copyright. I'll dig through my emails to find out where it got left. RE Road data - I have made some (but not a lot of progress due to work) on the PEI NRN import. B On 2010-01-26, at 11:47

Re: [Talk-ca] NRN - PEI

2009-06-24 Thread Robert Shand
, Robert Shand wrote: HI Everyone, I've been looking at the NRN import for PEI. I've hit a bit of a stumbling block. I've imported Canada.osm into PostGIS database all good. Can I export the data from the Canada.osm that I have loaded? Anyone have any details on how to do this? See http

Re: [Talk-ca] Roadmatcher - NRN for PEI

2009-06-16 Thread Robert Shand
I've managed to get it working - what I actually did I'm not too sure about... but at least now I can run Road Matcher. Now time to fix all of the errors that I'm seeing. Thanks for the help/info Bob On 15-Jun-09, at 11:07 PM, Steve Singer wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Robert Shand wrote

[Talk-ca] Roadmatcher - NRN for PEI

2009-06-15 Thread Robert Shand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, I've spent some time looking at importing the NRN for PEI. I've successfully managed to get to the stage where I've got a NRN.shp and a OSM.shp. The next task is to run the Road matcher. I'm on a Mac (10.5.7). I've downloaded Open