hi, Yes, it has been discussed. (somewhere back in the archives) It's on my list of things todo. Make a wiki page about this issue, and what the answer (consensus is)
cheers, sam On 2/25/09, Michael dos Santos <mee...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone looked at pulling road names out of the StatsCanada 2005 Road > Network? The linework is terrible but useful for names and highway/road > numbers. > > > > http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/2006Dissemination/Data/FRR_RNF_e.cfm > > > > > > > > > > Michael > > > > _____ > > From: talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org > [mailto:talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Sam Vekemans > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:22 AM > To: John Peterson; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org; Steve Singer; Michel Gilbert > Subject: [Talk-ca] NRN Map chart & CanVec Update > > > > Hi, > > It looks like your working more on the 040 area. Awesome! > > Perhaps it would be best to keep it to 1 line, and just add in what tiles > your working on. > > My concern is that this chart will get too big. > > > > As you might be aware there is an option to show the unnamed roads.. as > "fixme=no name" so then on the OSM map layer, all the roads that need to be > named are highlighted. > > > > I have now been able to make the CanVec2osm script work, so it's also > possible to view everything that canvec has to offer shown as individual OSM > files. > > > > The only thing that it doesn't do is compare with existing data directly. > But fortunately, this doesn't include roads. The roads DO exist, but > because road names are not available AND the data isn't as accurate, it's > not used, nor is any other feature that is already part of GeoBase. > > > > So far, the script doesn't include all the features, yet, but enough to get > an idea of how the features will get shown. > > > > The progress of this import will also be shown in a similar fashion, so i am > trying to match as much as possible. > > > > I wont actually start the import until, the whole script is done (obviously) > :-) ... but until i get the OK from lots of mappers that all the tags are > there as they should be. > > > > Cheers, > > Sam > > _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca