Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Geobase import: giving a try

2009-02-16 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Richard, Sam, Steve, Thanks for your feedback. I'll continue using PostGIS (good for my own skills as well), and look at the other suggestions you've made. I'll also leave the NIDs on the data which I will eventually upload. They don't hurt, although there is the theoretical possibility

[Talk-ca] OSM Geobase import: giving a try

2009-02-15 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi, I've sent below mail to Michel, who I met at the Sherbrooke mapping party last year, but I presume he's quite busy, so I'm posting it here. I haven't really been following the talk-ca mailing list, but I would like to give it a try. I don't know yet how much time and energy I'm willing to

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Geobase import: giving a try

2009-02-15 Thread Steve Singer
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Frank Steggink wrote: Hi, I've tried to digest the wiki pages and e-mails, but it's quite a lot of information. It is especially hard to identify what information is still current and what is obsolete. Hopefully you can help me getting started by answering a couple

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Geobase import: giving a try

2009-02-15 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Steve, Thanks for your response. Yes the wiki needs a cleanup, I've been hoping someone else would do it since that doesn't seem to be happening I will try to find sometime soon to delete all obsolete information from the wiki pages. I'll try to do some cleanup, once I have a better

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Geobase import: giving a try

2009-02-15 Thread Steve Singer
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Frank Steggink wrote: Hi Steve, In what way would it limit us? When we'll receive a new dataset from Geobase? Or do you hint towards other datasets which are linked to the NID? In that case that additional data can't be linked to existing database, because that