Hello: I've done some partial work on collecting / writing some scripts that work with the current canvec plus shape files. If you want I can send you a copy. Currently it breaks the files down into the various "layers" i.e. building, waterway, hydro lines. The idea was that you could pick and choose what data "layer" you wanted.
I haven't touched the scripts in a couple of months, so I'm not sure exactly where I'm at with them. Andrew On Thu, 2015-07-23 at 14:38 -0400, Daniel Begin wrote: > Bonjour Andrew, > > Good initiative! > And it will be perfect if you add all necessary links to good > practices/warnings about imports!-) > > I had a look at Canvec+ details (a). > - The prepackaged files (250K tiles) are going to be quite large since, from > what I understand, they have merged together all (16) underneath 50K. > - Custom “areas of interest” might be difficult to manage for data import. > - Proposed file formats are similar to what it used to be with standard > Canvec, but it does not include OSM format :-( > > About the script(s) used to convert Canvec to OSM, they were built using FME > workbenches linked together with batch files (so, obviously not open source). > > Best regards, > Daniel > > a) http://geogratis.gc.ca/site/eng/whats-new/intro-canvec > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew MacKinnon [mailto:andrew...@gmail.com] > Sent: July-23-15 14:04 > To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap > Subject: [Talk-ca] Open Data Imports > > I am starting to work on importing Open Data datasets. I am using pnorman's > ogr2osm script with modified translation files (see > https://github.com/andrewpmk/ogr2osm-translations). It will be some time > before I actually import anything. > > I would like to assemble a list of government open data portals in Canada > which are compatible with the OSM license. Please add suitable open data > sources to > [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Open_data]. If they > have already been fully imported then you should put a note on that wiki page. > > Also I am trying to figure out a way to import newer CanVec data. The CanVec > files in OSM format at <http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/OSM/pub/> > are out of date and appear to have been created in 2010. Is the script that > was used to convert CanVec to OSM open source? It looks like there is a new > version of CanVec called CanVec+, has anyone here used it yet? I am hoping to > do something about the large amount of broken imported data in OSM in Canada > and we need a better way of fixing broken CanVec data than copying from the > Geobase WMS layer or cutting and pasting from outdated .osm files from 2010. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca