[Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product - Running!

2010-07-27 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Hi all, an update on product conversion. So far ... - The process have been running for 22 days; - 6021 files have been processed - an average of 300 files a day; To come this week ... - Yukon and Northwest territories To come later ... The rest of the 13116 Canvec files Miscellaneous

Re: [Talk-ca] Converted Stats Can Boundaries files.

2010-07-27 Thread Bégin , Daniel
I agree with Richard, Here is more information... The first Osm Canadian/Provinces/Territories boundaries were imported from GeoBase in 2008 - actually the original contributor just confirmed me. These imported GeoBase boundaries were, and still being used, for GeoBase products definition -

[Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product - Running!

2010-07-27 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Hi all, an update on product conversion. So far ... - The process have been running for 22 days; - 6021 files have been processed - an average of 300 files a day; To come this week ... - Yukon and Northwest territories To come later ... The rest of the 13116 Canvec files Miscellaneous

Re: [Talk-ca] Converted Stats Can Boundaries files.

2010-07-27 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Sorry Sam, I don't want to argue with anybody. I wrote ... I agree with Richard, ... because Richard's comments were based on commonly agreed Osm rules. The rest of the email was just information, no arguments. Regards, Daniel -Original Message- From: samvekem...@gmail.com

Re: [Talk-ca] Converted Stats Can Boundaries files.

2010-07-27 Thread Sam Vekemans
Yup :) And what's fun about OSM is that OSM rules can always change, based on more available information. and 'discussing details' So the score so far is 2/2 tied. With those who dont mind dropping it in all at once :) The best way to handle this is probably to update the StatsCan wiki page,

Re: [Talk-ca] Converted Stats Can Boundaries files.

2010-07-27 Thread Michael Barabanov
Answering my own question.. no, doesn't seem like GeoBase contains boundaries for cities ( http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/admin/index.html). So StatsCan seems to be the only source of vector data for this? On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Michael Barabanov michael.baraba...@gmail.com

Re: [Talk-ca] Converted Stats Can Boundaries files.

2010-07-27 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Hi Michael, you are right - for the moment, because ... It should be available on GeoBase before the end of summer - or soon after !-) - Administrative boundaries/names for levels 6-8; - Geometries provided by local authorities, except for AB; About accuracy comparison with StatCan...

Re: [Talk-ca] Converted Stats Can Boundaries files.

2010-07-27 Thread Tyler Gunn
you are right - for the moment, because ... It should be available on GeoBase before the end of summer - or soon after !-) - Administrative boundaries/names for levels 6-8; - Geometries provided by local authorities, except for AB; Once the data is available on GeoBase, then I'll