It is possible to use Osmosis in this way. From [1]: osmosis --read-xml file="Canvec092C01.osm" --bounding-box top=48.05 bottom=48 left=-124.1 right=-124 --write-xml file="Canvec092C01A.osm"
For my own work with geobase2osm.py I wrote a small bash shell script that will grab coordinates from Frank's site [2] and do most of the work for me, outputting an entire area of Geobase, as smaller files. Maybe something similar could be put in the toolchain for the Canvec process? [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis#Extracting_bounding_boxes [2]: http://www.steggink.org/geo/nts_area/092C01A Adam On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > We are getting more progress on Vancouver Island, thanks to (haitelk) > who has just added in more wooded area. And the new CVRD data is in > the planning, discussing & sorting data phase. :-) > > What we still need todo is make a tool that will automatically slice > the NTS tiles (canvec .osm files) into 25 pieces, so then a local area > mapper can easly take 1 square at a time & work with it, choosing the > data that they need to add in. > > > I think that OSmosis has this ability, has anyone varified this? > This will be of great help to everyone, as we are also using the > Toporama WMS layer to be tracing & using it for reference. > > Otherwise, if we dont have the 1/25th tile area, its harder to ensure > that no 'bulk_implopping' happens where the user gets lazy and doesnt > bother to check the area 1st. > > Since the 1/25th tile size is a standard JOSM working space, we would > (just about all of the time), have only 1 mapper is working at a time. > (even in the big cities, this size is managable). > > Oh, this whole CanVec dataset would be great to host on a different > API, (like i talked about on my last message for OpenImportsMap does > anyone know if perhaps the devAPI would be a good place for it? Or > should we make a new one that is dedicated to wholesale imports? > > Thanks, > Sam > -- > Twitter: @Acrosscanada > Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ > http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans > Skype: samvekemans > OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org > @Acrosscanadatrails > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
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