Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-15 Thread Sam Vekemans
Just curious, is it technially possable to create a WMS layer, where the address range data & road names are phycally shown? If this layer can be set to transparent, then it could be used ontop of the Toporama WMS layer (so then we can manually copy in the details to the actual road & extrapolate

Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-15 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Tyler, Yes, the less than great spatial accuracy of the StatsCan RNF are well known (and they are the first to admit this). StatsCan is intending to move over to the NRN when they can (i.e., once enough provinces have released address ranged data). The current RNF has been rubber sheeted to mat

Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-15 Thread tyler
> This is perhaps the only area of OSM, that i dont stick my fingers > in. :-) > Will be great if you can solve the puzzle. > As it would be great to be adding in that detail. > I can see why we don't tend to bulk import the statscan data; the streets they have defined in the areas I'm look

Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-14 Thread Sam Vekemans
Good luck, This is perhaps the only area of OSM, that i dont stick my fingers in. :-) Will be great if you can solve the puzzle. As it would be great to be adding in that detail. Sam On 4/14/10, ty...@egunn.com wrote: > > On 2010-04-14, at 10:27 PM, Dan Putler wrote: > >> Hi Tyler, >> >> OpenJU

Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-14 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Tyler, I would look into the GDAL/OGR library. The command line tools might work for you, but if you need more you can things in C/C++, C#, Java, or Python (maybe even Ruby). I tend to do thing in R, but I'm basically a statistician. Dan On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 20:36 -0700, ty...@egunn.com wrot

Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-14 Thread tyler
On 2010-04-14, at 10:27 PM, Dan Putler wrote: > Hi Tyler, > > OpenJUMP probably isn't the tool to do this with. Three tools come to > mind: > Its do-able, but probably not as easy as you had hoped. > Hi Dan. Thanks for the suggestions; I am a computer programmer by trade so perhaps I should l

Re: [Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-14 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Tyler, OpenJUMP probably isn't the tool to do this with. Three tools come to mind: (1) using ogrinfo from the GDAL/OGR library (which if you are Windows user is most easily obtained via FWTools); (2) a spatially enabled DBMS such as PostgreSQL with PostGIS, which would enable you to get at the

[Talk-ca] StatsCan Address Ranges in OpenJUMP -- how to interpret them?

2010-04-14 Thread Tyler Gunn
I've been poking around in OpenJUMP and am looking at the StatsCan road names data for Manitoba. When selecting a way in there it's easy to get the street name. I notice that they also have the address in format: ADDR_FM_LE: ADDR_TO_LE: ADDR_FM_RG: ADDR_TO_RG: The statscan technical spec say