Re: [Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-08-15 Thread James Ewen
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Ben Konrathb...@bagu.org wrote: Ok, I did some more poking around and it seems that the land border with the US is really borked. For BC and Alberta, there are 3 - 4 different border lines with the US. I'm willing to do the work required to clean this up by

Re: [Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-08-15 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi james, Why not just try an admin level higher than whats there for alberta/sask. I dont think it needs to be a polygon to show up, or does it? Then we can use that as a benchmark for how to make the USA state boarders show up. In the 'nutral zone' (slightly lower can be the 'county' borders) A

Re: [Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-05-28 Thread Paul Johnson
James Ewen wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Corey Burger corey.burger-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: For BC and Alberta, there are 3 - 4 different border lines with the US. This one is very very easy. It is the 49th parallel from lake of the woods to the straight of

Re: [Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-05-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 22:31 -0400, Ben Konrath wrote: Ok, I did some more poking around and it seems that the land border with the US is really borked. For BC and Alberta, there are 3 - 4 different border lines with the US. I'm willing to do the work required to clean this up by deleting the

[Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-05-27 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi, I'm interested in creating a map that contains all of Canada's territory up to the border with our neighbouring countries or the ocean border. The first problem that I found is that the Canadian border isn't defined well in the OSM data. As an example, the border running to the South of New

Re: [Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-05-27 Thread Ben Konrath
Hi Paul, On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Ben Konrath wrote: Hi, I'm interested in creating a map that contains all of Canada's territory up to the border with our neighbouring countries or the ocean border. The first problem that I found is

Re: [Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-05-27 Thread James Ewen
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Ben Konrath b...@bagu.org wrote: Ok, I did some more poking around and it seems that the land border with the US is really borked. For BC and Alberta, there are 3 - 4 different border lines with the US. I'm willing to do the work required to clean this up by

Re: [Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-05-27 Thread Ben Konrath
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:48 PM, James Ewen ve6...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Ben Konrath b...@bagu.org wrote: Ok, I did some more poking around and it seems that the land border with the US is really borked. For BC and Alberta, there are 3 - 4 different border lines

Re: [Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-05-27 Thread Corey Burger
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Ben Konrath b...@bagu.org wrote: Ok, I did some more poking around and it seems that the land border with the US is really borked. For BC and Alberta, there are 3 - 4 different border lines with the US. I'm willing to do the work required to clean this up by

Re: [Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-05-27 Thread James Ewen
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Ben Konrath b...@bagu.org wrote: Great! Do you have a record of this communication so that we can archive it in a public place? fromCulham, Doug doug.cul...@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca to James Ewen je...@shaw.ca cc Johnson, Bob

Re: [Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-05-27 Thread James Ewen
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Corey Burger corey.bur...@gmail.com wrote: For BC and Alberta, there are 3 - 4 different border lines with the US. This one is very very easy. It is the 49th parallel from lake of the woods to the straight of georgia. No so little Grasshopper! It's close to

Re: [Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

2009-05-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Ben Konrath wrote: Ok, I did some more poking around and it seems that the land border with the US is really borked. For BC and Alberta, there are 3 - 4 different border lines with the US. I'm willing to do the work required to clean this up by deleting the lines that don't make sense. I just