Bonjour Sam, bonjour tout le monde! I was almost certain and yesterday I got confirmation from NRCan that Canvec has "Geobase inside" - Canvec Road and Hydro network are a COPY of Geobase NRN-NHN.
It says that everything added in Geobase since the last Canvec release is included in the new release. It also says that Canvec contains street name (attached to the way) if they are available from Geobase, the same for lake and river names! Someone can confirm/object to that statement? I started a few weeks ago to use JSOM to import Canvec features and I was disappointed there were no roads or hydrography in converted files. Considering it seems to have no differences between Geobase and Canvec, why don't we keep Canvec roads and or hydrography in the datasets? It would be much easier - and stimulating - to get all the content in the zip file and start to upload the area, starting with roads, then the hydrography, railroads, and so on! Sam, if the community agree with me that there is no raison (but six month) to use the full Canvec content - including roads and hydrography - could CanVec-to-osm be modified and do the job? I love the idea of having some people converting NRCan data and let the others (like me) uploading the .osm result in Openstreetmap. Can we make it easier by packaging one zip file with all the content? Hope so! Daniel -----Original Message----- From: talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Sam Vekemans Sent: October 21, 2009 01:52 To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: [Talk-ca] CanVec-to-osm v0.9.5 now cooler than before Hi all, i'm processing select areas on request, the script now basically downloads/unzips/converts/adds source details/zips 16 canvec tiles in 1 key stroke :) The biggest thing to note is that these files will be in constant upgrade & revision mode, as the source files change every 6 months. But fortunately, its at the point now that you can copy in what ever features you want. (future changes will be 'relatevely' minor) I'll just make suggestions on what additional things need to be done (outlined in the readme.txt file) ... Which still needs some fixing up :) geobaseNHN-to-osm v0.3.4.0 updates: -River Names, because this might be added to canvec later on, its still best to use geobaseNHN data -for the ISLANDS polygons, you'll need to reverse the direction of the ways, to counter-clockwise, alternatively, we could simply omit the natural=coastline tag and just have place=island. Because the 'wooded_area' file often is on those islands, it would still be rendered. -extra nodes.... the JOSM validator plugin would help, as it would spot where thesea extra nodes are lurking, and be zapped. :) -the 'extra' folder, i think it needs to be fixed up a little more, as some features should be available as a full file. Although, like all features, as long as the physical geometry is in place, a 'CanBot' can be made to run over the country and make changes. As we see the need. ... so it isn't really THAT necessary to be too picky about the 'correct' tags. (BTW, argh! thats why i keep the canvec:CODE tag, so it can be found-replaced) :-) Anyway, i already know who the main people are for areas... so this week im converting those areas.... and trying to get feedback :) thats all for now, Cheers, Sam -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
