Aren't these files grouped by feature type? So if we look at roads we wouldn't also necessarily need to look at land use boundaries etc.? At least that's what I am getting looking at http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/23387971-b6d3-4ded-a40b-c8e832b4ea08.html
-- Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org On Sun, Sep 11, 2016, at 12:59, James wrote: > Plus it would help identify which parts and canvec are actually needed > vs importing a bunch of forests and hoping for some roads > > On Sep 11, 2016 2:48 PM, "John Marshall" <rps...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Great idea Martijn, >> One of the big problems of OSM in Canada is there are many missing >> road where there are no local mappers. Canada is very big. Any tools >> to help map unmapped area of Canada gets a big +1 from me. >> John >> John Marshall >> >> On Sep 9, 2016 17:36, "Martijn van Exel" <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> A few colleagues at Telenav and myself are looking at Canvec 2016. >>> Roads >>> specifically. I am sure some of you already have done that. >>> Something we >>> are looking into a workflow that is something like this >>> (simplified): >>> >>> Canvec 2016 Shapefiles --> Conflation engine (Cygnus [1]) --> >>> Tasking >>> manager >>> >>> The output of the conflation would be an OSM XML change file that >>> could >>> be (selectively) applied in JOSM. It would contain new / changed >>> ways as >>> well as some new or changed tags. All proposed updates would be >>> verified >>> manually (through tasking manager.) >>> >>> What do you think about this idea? >>> >>> The conflation engine takes OSM PBF as input, so the Canvec >>> shapefiles >>> would need to be translated (using ogr2osm). That would require an >>> ogr2osm translation file. I wonder if someone already did this? >>> (I am >>> using this [2] attribute list as reference.) >>> >>> [1]https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/37808 >>> >>> [2]http://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/vector/canvec/doc/CanVec_Catalogue_50K_Transport/SRDB_EXPL_ESSIM_50K_Transport-sd-en.html#div-1330009 >>> -- >>> Martijn van Exel >>> m...@rtijn.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>
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