Re: [Talk-ca] Question about NIDs

2009-01-20 Thread michcasa
On Jan 20, 2009 12:48am, James Ewen wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Richard Degelder rtdegel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a process to include the NID, in an > appropriate manner, with the import data that was derived from GeoBase? In Steve's upload, we have a UUID with each

Re: [Talk-ca] NRN Fort McMurray area data

2009-01-19 Thread michcasa
On Jan 18, 2009 11:08pm, Steve Singer wrote: On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Michel Gilbert wrote: Steve, Good work. Your osm file looks great. I am going to use your work to tackle the nrn import with FME. Sounds good. Let me know if you want the latest versions of the geobase2osm.py scri

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Northern lights

2008-12-30 Thread michcasa
On Dec 29, 2008 10:41am, Jochen Topf wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:08:36PM +, michc...@gmail.com wrote: >> There just was a discussion on dev about a single way with 40.000 nodes. >> >> That is far too long to be able to handle it with current software and >> >> makes lots of pr

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Northern lights

2008-12-29 Thread michcasa
On Dec 29, 2008 3:11am, Jochen Topf wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 06:48:37PM -0800, Sam Vekemans wrote: > the canadian geopolitical boundries was just imported. > I imagine there was a spike in the database. > > What exactly was the problem? And why &how would it need to be removed? > Im s

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase import by provinces

2008-11-21 Thread michcasa
Corey: The Kamploops example was to validate the change detection process and import. The boundary cutting was arbitrary. I think we can import by bounding box of 0.5 degree for example and make sure to have overlaps. That way I would have catch the error you indicate. Richard: The hydrogra

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase import by provinces

2008-11-20 Thread michcasa
May be I was not clear. I agree with you, user effort is very important and we should keep existing OSM data. However Geobase data will provide a very very very good coverage and accuracy where no OSM data is available. The use of Geobase data will allow the users to work locally to improve t

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase import by provinces

2008-11-20 Thread michcasa
I think the idea is not to replace existing OSM data. Therefore the import should be able to insert only new data. I do not think we should exclude areas. We should detect the changes instead. Richard proposed to start where osm data is not present. I agree with him. Michel On Nov 20, 2008