For those who are still wondering, Manning Park should actually be showing up in http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.0866&lon=-120.7647&zoom=12&layers=B000FTF The permalink I had in my last post shouldn't have any national or provincial parks in it.
Adam On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com>wrote: > Well, because were (as you did) just loading local area parks (that each of > us knows of directly). We can change the tagging as we like. > > Feel free to change the page to whatever tags are better. (and i can > re-convert the dataset again with changes) > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase/NRCan_Protected_Areas > > In order to make a WMS layer service. All that is needed is to change the > format of the shp files with ogr2ogr & make these files available. Then > James knows now to make a WMS layer with map.server, where it could be > hosted onto the wms.openstreetmap.de site, so then people can just trace > from it. If we make it 'transparent' this WMS can be used over top of the > Toporama WMS. ... while other features are being added (from the soon to > be available canvec data) as .1x.1 degree tiles. > > For now, i can see that they show up (i corrected your permalink :-) > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.0345&lon=-121.9195&zoom=12&layers=B000FTF > > Re: Manning Park. ya, i have no idea about the source of the data. My > plan is to contact Parks Canada (as soon as all the parks get loaded in) > and share the .dbf file database & add in a column for the 'OSM ID' ( > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/54452481) (creating 1 chart per > feature type) would make for a good spreadsheet). > I would ask them how old the source data is, and ask to get an update from > the BC government to update that file. > > Also, note that the BC Provincial Parks database is under the license that > is not compatible with OSM, however, once all of this available data is > loaded in the province (and all the Canvec data is loaded). We might see > some interest from GeoBC. ... > > However, i have already contacted GeoBC (and have bugged them enough). It > would be better to wait until all of the Vancouver Data is available (city > parks), or even better.. other regional area data (Nanaimo & CVRD). ... and > approach other towns across the province, .. so once more cities & regions > notice that OSM is populated with all this data. The province has the > dataset that will be able to 'fill in the gaps'. > > Also, after all of the park boundaries are loaded in Ontario (the shp files > are available) & i can convert it just the same. ... there will be some > provincial competition. .. where no province likes to be last... :-) > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Land_Information_Ontario#Provincial_Park_Regulated > (there is only 337 parks, so it could all be put in 1 or 2 .osm files) .... > but note that some of this could be in CanVec. ... which is why im not > converting it yet... anyone want it? > > Cheers, > Sam > > > >>> >> > >
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