Re: [Talk-ca] Import mess in southern Québec

2010-01-16 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Yves, FWIW, I was able to browse the site, in order to see what is available and at what cost, with Ubuntu / Firefox. Maybe you have some extensions (like NoScript) blocking something. For one, I had to allow JS to be executed, but that's all. Regarding the infrastructure, there are

Re: [Talk-ca] Import mess in southern Québec

2010-01-16 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, The potential for access to Quebec imagery is nice, if the provider and license will permit. The best place for that and similar imagery would be OpenAerialMap.org[1], which poses a problem, because OAM is still rebooting itself. OAM in the first incarnation found that it was flooded

Re: [Talk-ca] Import mess in southern Québec

2010-01-15 Thread Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 00:37 -0500, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: I had started a manual clean up but gave up, I am sure there is a better tool for that! Can someone have a look? Alright, although it wasn't a witch hunt, the guilty man replied to me in private and fixed it :) Problem solved!

Re: [Talk-ca] Import mess in southern Québec

2010-01-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Nicolas Gignac gignac...@hotmail.com wrote: Allo, Si vous voulez des données gratuites pour le Québec pour améliorer OSM, voir ici : http://www.mrnf.gouv.qc.ca/territoire/portrait/portrait-donnees-mille.jsp If you want free data for the province of Quebec to

Re: [Talk-ca] Import mess in southern Québec

2010-01-15 Thread Nicolas Gignac
Allo, Si vous voulez des données gratuites pour le Québec pour améliorer OSM, voir ici : http://www.mrnf.gouv.qc.ca/territoire/portrait/portrait-donnees-mille.jsp If you want free data for the province of Quebec to improve OSM, there is free datasets available here:

Re: [Talk-ca] Import mess in southern Québec

2010-01-15 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi, Regarding government contacts: I believe Nicolas has contacts within the government himself, so he might be in the best position to make some inquiries. It would be wonderful if we could do something really useful with it (i.e. importing in OSM). I've looked at the 1:1M data, and it is in

Re: [Talk-ca] Import mess in southern Québec

2010-01-15 Thread Frank Steggink
Regarding the area names: they are in the E00 files, and also in the generated pat.adf files, so it shouldn't be a problem to match them up with the numeric identifiers. Frank Frank Steggink wrote: Hi, Regarding government contacts: I believe Nicolas has contacts within the government

Re: [Talk-ca] Import mess in southern Québec

2010-01-15 Thread Sam Vekemans
Sweet! Nothing like a little peer pressure to speed up the process. Across the country there is CERTAINLY some friendly rivelry going on. Current Score: Toronto is in the lead with local detail, followed closely by Montreal. Although Calgary has some great detail Origional material. I think

[Talk-ca] Import mess in southern Québec

2010-01-14 Thread Pierre-Luc Beaudoin
Hi! :) There are some places just south of Montréal that have duplicated data for every ways. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.3085lon=-73.5243zoom=12layers=B000FTF That include Saint-Constant, Delson, down to Saint-Rémi (following the 209). The overpasses of the 15,.30 and 132 are