I've been merging Canvec tiles here in Manitoba over the past while, and although I can clearly see the need to do this manually where this is pre-existing data, I'm wondering what peoples thoughts are about automating this process where there is NO pre-existing data in the location bounded by a tile.
What I've got in mind is a plugin for JOSM where you'd add a bunch of Canvec tiles to a list, hit a button and leave it alone while it does its thing. The general process I'm envisioning is: For each tile in list: If tile contains coastline, skip Download data in area bounded by tile. If no data found, merge tile into downloaded area. Select boundaries of tile and automatically merge nodes from adjacent tiles to eliminate the duplicates on the tile boundaries. Upload results Mark tile in list indicating it was processed End The populated areas are probably best to be done manually as we're doing them now, but there are vast areas of the country where I think this would work well. Opinions? _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
