Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase and Canvec import tools

2009-09-11 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/9/11 Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com Thats Cool, the more types of conversion programs the better. (as long as were all on the same page, were all good) :) Would you be able to share the links to the .osm files your making? http://ns369499.ovh.net/clcf2006.new.osm.bz2 This

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase and Canvec import tools

2009-09-11 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool, i thought you were in Canada :-) lol i'll add myself tn this imports listserv. Then i guess we can say that i am in charge of converting the SHP files of the CanVec dataset into .osm format, and making these files available for myself and others to copy over at their leisure. We can also

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase and Canvec import tools

2009-09-10 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Richard, This approach makes for many more change sets and each change set is likely to be a single object of some sort. They still have to break these up further if the single relation is too big, but they aim for a changeset of about 1,000 items total. Too bad that the NTS tiles

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase and Canvec import tools

2009-09-10 Thread Sam Vekemans
Thanks Richard for attending that call :) (i wanted to, but wasnt humanly possable) That request is not unreasonable, right now my data conversion script says 5,000 but i can change that to 2,000. Ian's simple shp-to-osm.jar can now handle any arbitrary number. When the script 'chokes' its because