[Talk-ca] Land Information Ontario - update

2010-05-06 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi All, Im working on the Provincial parks dataset http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Land_Information_Ontario:_Provincial_Park_Regulated I sliced up the big provincial file into regions using OPenJUMP and included the .prj file for each set. user: MikeyCarter has been is working on doing a

[Talk-ca] Geobase NHN status - notes

2010-05-06 Thread Sam Vekemans
So here's where we are at. fyi The water direction flow, is not included in CanVec/Toporama, but is available with the GeoBase WMS thats available. We can convert the data on a national level, and it can be freely hosted on archive.org The script is rather easy to run (if you know how). For me

Re: [Talk-ca] Ontario OSM Meetups

2010-05-06 Thread Sam Vekemans
Would you be able to make other people admins for your meetup pages? That might help a bit. There is so many different ways to organize meetups, so the more the better. I wonder if the is a social networking site called YetAnotherNetwork.com? Cheers, Sam On 5/5/10, Richard Weait

Re: [Talk-ca] Ontario OSM Meetups

2010-05-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: Would you be able to make other people admins for your meetup pages? Yes. The Toronto group has a co-admin. That might help a bit. Help what? There is so many different ways to organize meetups, so the more the

Re: [Talk-ca] Ontario OSM Meetups

2010-05-06 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool, great that there is just 1 co-admin. With more co-admins, others can set up more meetups. But the purpose of meetup.com is to meet new people, where eventbrite.com's purpose is to sell tickets (but doesnt require payment for free events) nor an extra login. Tinychat.com offers free

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm samples

2010-05-06 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Bonjour Adam, All Canvec.osm samples have been replaced - there is no more empty tags (tag/). For those who wishes to have a look, you will find links to samples in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec I don't know how I did manage to open the previous version in JOSM but this version

[Talk-ca] CanVec import - willing to help

2010-05-06 Thread Tyler Gunn
Hello, Sorry if this post is redundant; I wasn't sure how up to date the Wiki is so I figured I'd just ask. :) Anyways, I'm just curious if there is any work I could do to help out with the CanVec import. I'd be more than happy to sift through the data for my area, Winnipeg (062H14). To do

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm samples

2010-05-06 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Adam, The problem was with empty tag managment with a previous version of the osm writer we use. We are not expecting to lose anything! Daniel From: Adam Dunn [mailto:dunna...@gmail.com] Sent: 6 mai 2010 13:46 To: Bégin, Daniel Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec import - willing to help

2010-05-06 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi Tyler, cc:talk-ca Well, there is lots of Natural Protected areas that can be imported in the Manitoba area. As well as the Aborigional lands data. For the canvec data, the script is available, in python. So others are doing their own conversion. So you can ask on the talk-ca@ list. The canvec

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec import - willing to help

2010-05-06 Thread Bégin , Daniel
No, I mean release 6.0 coming out in few weeks :-) Daniel From: Adam Dunn [mailto:dunna...@gmail.com] Sent: 6 mai 2010 16:12 To: Bégin, Daniel Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec import - willing to help By next you mean 7.0 coming out in October? Adam On Thu,

Re: [Talk-ca] Victoria MeetUp

2010-05-06 Thread Gregory
On 6 May 2010 04:34, Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com wrote: So if anyone is saying why should i map if the data will be imported from canvec? The answer is that the rest of the world needs to be mapped. And help is needed. 'cause as you all know, it isnt untill the base map is

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec import - willing to help

2010-05-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 02:58:42PM -0400, Bégin, Daniel wrote: I'm planning to process the next Canvec release from south to north, east to west. I should be able to start the process a couple of weeks after the release. The process will then runs for many weeks. This is great news. The work