Merkaartor has support for GeoTiffs (already rectified), and CanVec definitely doesn't include all the data, although it has most of it. CanMatrix seems to have the most park boundaries in it although some are out of date. Basically if you are trying to get an area to a high level of detail: 1. geobase import 2. Canvec import 3. NHN import in BC (included in canvec soon) 4. Cantopo/Canmatrix tracing 5. Yahoo tracing 5. Ground work
Of course you should try to verify all this data because I find a lot of the NrCan data to be still a bit inaccurate. Russell On 2010-06-23, at 8:03 PM, Tyler Gunn <ty...@egunn.com> wrote: > >> For those of you who have been under a rock about Merkaarator, (like >> me) the editing tool is very good. >> It allows nice viewing of WMS layers, which seems to be better than > JOSM. > > So out of curiosity, does Markaator allow direct opening of the TIFF > files? JOSM doesn't seem to allow this. > What procedure would be involved in aligning these TIFFs to reality? > > >> Whats surprising, is that the area which is the Capital Region >> District boundary, as well as the backroads are actually available. >> This significant for ALL of Canada, because it means that there is no >> need to approach the cities about data, until these CanTopo & >> CanMatrix PDFs and TIFFs have been fully exhausted. >> So on top of the CanVec data, that were all looking forward to seeing, >> we can further detail the OSM map with this stuff. > > Would the CanVec data not include all of this data? Or is it a completely > separate data set? > > I took at look at the TIFF for Portage La Prairie in MB (near me): > ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/cantopo/50k_tif/062/g/cantopo_062g16_tif.zip > I did notice the city boundaries in there. Hmm, that's always good to > see... :) The data is out there, we just need to find it. > > Tyler _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
