Regarding the area names: they are in the E00 files, and also in the generated pat.adf files, so it shouldn't be a problem to match them up with the numeric identifiers.
Frank Frank Steggink wrote: > Hi, > > Regarding government contacts: I believe Nicolas has contacts within the > government himself, so he might be in the best position to make some > inquiries. It would be wonderful if we could do something really useful > with it (i.e. importing in OSM). > > I've looked at the 1:1M data, and it is in E00 format. With some tools > (Import71 from ESRI and ogr2ogr) I was able to convert it to SHP, and > then I used shp-to-osm.jar to convert it to OSM files. So far I haven't > used any rules files, so I got the bare geometry. Maybe I haven't done > right in this quick test, but the OSM files don't contain areas, but > lines. Actually this is perfect for administrative boundaries. Any > administrative areas should be built up by relationships anyways. > > Regarding the accuracy, it was much better than I would expect because > of the scale. If there would be no alternative, this would certainly be > acceptable IMHO. > > One thing though: I couldn't find any names of the areas. The generated > DBF files only contain numeric identifiers. During the conversion to SHP > (through ArcInfo coverages) I got an error from ogr2ogr that it wasn't > able to convert integer lists to SHP. I don't know the data, so I also > don't know what data has been dropped. Maybe the identifiers of the area > to the left and right sides of each way... > > The Geoboutique site also has lots of other interesting data, like > orthophotos. Too bad they're expensive. $65 per file, and there are > thousands of them. However, we wouldn't "need" that data per se, but if > it would only be available to OSM for tracing purposes (like Yahoo), > that would already be very much appreciated :) > > Frank > > Sam Vekemans wrote: > >> So Quebec (province) has not opened up their dataset yet? >> Good to know. >> Maybe after the NRCan data all gets imported, they might change their mind :) >> >> Does anyone have contact with the GIS department directly? >> >> Sam >> >> On 1/15/10, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin <pierre-...@pierlux.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 22:18 -0500, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: >>> >>> >>>> We should get in touch with them so we can exchange datasets such as >>>> Municipalités régionales de comté, City boundaries, counties and >>>> administrative regions (at least). >>>> >>>> >>> They do have the data (1/20 000) in vector format available for sale for >>> 100$ + conversion rates of 7$ on http://geoboutique.mrnf.gouv.qc.ca . >>> Past that, it's only a question of licences. >>> >>> Pierre-Luc >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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