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 are out of date and appear to have been created in 2010.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.
>
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