Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-24 Thread Nicolas Gignac
Yeah, I know, but as an overlays it is still showing what it can be integrated into OSM, it is a good start!!! What is your strategy to clear legal details? If you need help stay in touch with me, because I am working in the government of Quebec and I know really well the people at the Ministère

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-24 Thread Frank Steggink
Nicolas Gignac wrote: Yeah, I know, but as an overlays it is still showing what it can be integrated into OSM, it is a good start!!! What is your strategy to clear legal details? If you need help stay in touch with me, because I am working in the government of Quebec and I know really well

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-23 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 23/01/2010 06:38, Sam Vekemans wrote: Mapnik -osm2pgsql layers Thats awesome visualization! Is it possable to create a mapnik osm2pgsql set of layers that would allow seeing just select features? I guess im talking about a wmf service. (which i barely understand) But wont that require

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Steggink
Emilie Laffray wrote: On 23/01/2010 06:38, Sam Vekemans wrote: Mapnik -osm2pgsql layers Thats awesome visualization! Is it possable to create a mapnik osm2pgsql set of layers that would allow seeing just select features? I guess im talking about a wmf service. (which i barely

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-23 Thread Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 23:46 -0500, Frank Steggink wrote: The last days I've flexed my Mapnik / osm2pgsql skills, and was able to put a visualization of the tiles online. They can be found here: [1]. The tiles themselves are generated as transparent PNGs, so they didn't have to be integrated

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-23 Thread Lennard
Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: You have strong Mapnik / osm2pgsql skills! :) The force is strong in this apprentice. -- Lennard ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Steggink
Lennard wrote: Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: You have strong Mapnik / osm2pgsql skills! :) The force is strong in this apprentice. Master Ldp, OK, I needed some guidance. So what? I'll spare the details; that would only be humiliating. ;) Frank

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-23 Thread Nicolas Gignac
Nice work Frank! I will post this topic to some of the people I know in the government of Quebec (e.g. Ministère des Ressources Naturelles et Faune), they will happy to know that some of their data has been used in OSM! They might think of freeing other datasets... Cheers, Nicolas 2010/1/22

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-22 Thread Frank Steggink
Frank Steggink wrote: Frank Steggink wrote: Hi, As a bit of a challenge I've looked at the administrative data pointed out by Nicolas Gignac: [1]. I know there are some doubts about the accuracy, but this was also meant as an exercise to deal with this kind of data. Maybe it can be

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-22 Thread Sam Vekemans
Mapnik -osm2pgsql layers Thats awesome visualization! Is it possable to create a mapnik osm2pgsql set of layers that would allow seeing just select features? I guess im talking about a wmf service. (which i barely understand) But wont that require separate hosting of the data? (or rather, a

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-19 Thread Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
Hi Frank, Nice work, it we ever get our hands on real data, you'll be ready! On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 21:43 -0500, Frank Steggink wrote: would like to propose to use admin_level=5 for the regions. They have at least a semi-offical status. Others might be able to elaborate on it more.

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-19 Thread Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 21:43 -0500, Frank Steggink wrote: So far I have only created relationships, including the municipality name. I would like to share it with you, in order to gather feedback. The result can be found here: [2]. That data is awesome :) we need to get our hands on it!

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-19 Thread Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 10:52 -0500, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: There are 2 communauté urbaines in Québec, they include all cities that form an urban area. Please strike urbaines and replace with métropolitaine. The word urban was replaced by metropolitan with the big reorganizations of

[Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-18 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi, As a bit of a challenge I've looked at the administrative data pointed out by Nicolas Gignac: [1]. I know there are some doubts about the accuracy, but this was also meant as an exercise to deal with this kind of data. Maybe it can be reused for other purposes, although I haven't written

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-18 Thread Frank Steggink
Frank Steggink wrote: Hi, As a bit of a challenge I've looked at the administrative data pointed out by Nicolas Gignac: [1]. I know there are some doubts about the accuracy, but this was also meant as an exercise to deal with this kind of data. Maybe it can be reused for other purposes,