Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase NRN import script

2009-01-01 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Steve Singer wrote: > The geobase2osm.py script lets you pass a bounds file (with the -b option). > This will only include roads that pass through the bounds specified in the > file. So you can take the full provincial GML files but only generate .osm > files for

[Talk-ca] Geobase NRN import script

2009-01-01 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Jason Reid wrote: > In terms of actually adding the data into OSM, the only real solution is to > use the API and the bulk_upload tool (or a tool with equivalent > functionality). But that bulk_upload tool has no provisions for checking for and possibly matching e

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase NRN import script

2009-01-01 Thread Steve Singer
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, James Ewen wrote: > Can you slice the GML file up into chunks? We could manually start the > import process by manually defining areas where we want to start > importing data. Areas chosen by users with little or no existing data. The geobase2osm.py script lets you pass a bou

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase NRN import script

2009-01-01 Thread Jason Reid
James Ewen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jason Reid > wrote: > > >> The script will generate a single OSM file per GML file, so 1 per >> province currently. >> > > Any plans on how to merge the OSM and GeoBase files into one database? > > >> The mapping between the Geobase ta

Re: [Talk-ca] Geobase NRN import script

2009-01-01 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jason Reid wrote: > The script will generate a single OSM file per GML file, so 1 per > province currently. Any plans on how to merge the OSM and GeoBase files into one database? > The mapping between the Geobase tags and OSM tags is a work in progress > still, i

[Talk-ca] Geobase NRN import script

2009-01-01 Thread Jason Reid
Thanks to some patches from Steve Singer, I've committed a new version of the NRN import script to the SVN repository. This version uses the python OGR bindings to better process the source data, and Steve also worked out a system to merge junction nodes together (earlier versions of the script