Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-07-01 Thread Frank Steggink
urs ago were already processed. Good luck! Frank On 01-07-2017 09:52, Jochen Topf wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 11:47:36PM +0200, Frank Steggink wrote: On 30-06-2017 21:21, Jochen Topf wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 08:16:40PM +0200, Frank Steggink wrote: Maybe I'm not understanding it, but

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-06-30 Thread Frank Steggink
ially as a polygon and was later converted to a relation? Canvec 10.0 doesnt have the issues of double tagging, just overlapping On Jun 30, 2017 3:22 PM, "Jochen Topf" <joc...@remote.org <mailto:joc...@remote.org>> wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 08:16:40P

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-06-30 Thread Frank Steggink
On 30-06-2017 21:21, Jochen Topf wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 08:16:40PM +0200, Frank Steggink wrote: Maybe I'm not understanding it, but in the OSM inspector [1] I just see one case of old style multipolygon, in Manitoba. Last week, when you posted your original message, I just saw one case

Re: [Talk-ca] Multipolygon problems

2017-06-30 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Jochen, Maybe I'm not understanding it, but in the OSM inspector [1] I just see one case of old style multipolygon, in Manitoba. Last week, when you posted your original message, I just saw one case in New Brunswick. IIRC, it was a park, not even from the Canvec import. In the OSM

Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2015-07-25 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Daniel, Actually, the part between Quebec City and Beaupré of Route 138 should still be tagged as a trunk. Beaupré is not a large population centre, but the layout of the road is almost that of a motorway. Except that there are traffic lights instead of interchanges. Regards, Frank On

Re: [Talk-ca] Discussion: zones boisées

2014-11-19 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Dega, Sorry, you can't just get away with not creating holes for lakes, clearings, etc. What if you get an extract of OSM, and you're only interested in the forests, because you want to calculate the percentage of forest coverage. You don't get information about lakes, heath and other

Re: [Talk-ca] coastline between Montreal and Sorel, Quebec

2014-04-04 Thread steggink
Another option is to tag water as coastline at places where there is significant tide. This will include the estuary up until approximately Quebec City. Regarding tagging the Great Lakes as coastline: why would there be an exception for them, where as other large lakes (Great Slave Lake,

Re: [Talk-ca] GNS tag cleanup

2014-02-14 Thread steggink
Hi Paul, gns:jog refers to the sheet number of the Joint Operations Graphics map series. gns:mgrs refers to the Military Grid Reference System, which is nothing more than an alternate representation of the coordinate system IMO both these values can be safely removed. I don't know about

Re: [Talk-ca] GNS tag cleanup

2014-02-14 Thread steggink
Hi Pierre, Did you intend to post this link: http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/gis_countryfiles.html ? Frank Quoting Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr: This page gives the variables description. To reconcile with GNS, I suggest that only UFI and UNI unique identifiers have to be kept.  

Re: [Talk-ca] licence et notion de paternité

2012-12-18 Thread Frank Steggink
Hopefully they'll change the license so it becomes truly open. They probably don't have as much experience with open data licenses as we, as the OSM community, have. Because we go farther than just visualizing the data, these questions were probably beyond their original thoughts about how

Re: [Talk-ca] Internal CanVec conflicts

2012-11-14 Thread Frank Steggink
On 14-11-2012 19:37, Pierre Béland wrote: Pierre Lamoureux***:* Mardi 13 novembre 2012 23h54 ** Je suis un nouveau participant au projet OSM, par contre je ne suis pas un débutant en cartographie et je saisis assez bien les termes de la discussion en cours En passant, j’ai un peu

Re: [Talk-ca] Internal CanVec conflicts

2012-11-13 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Paul, It probably won't come to you as a surprise if I would say it is acceptable, but to a certain degree. A map with no data is not a map. A map with inconsistent data is still a map, but obviously something is not right. A map with perfectly consistent data doesn't need to tell the

Re: [Talk-ca] Import Canvec : micro-tâches / Canvec imports micro-tasking

2012-11-13 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Pierre, I'm glad to see you're taking a constructive approach towards the discussion initiated by Paul :) I definitely agree something needs to be done to make imports more manageable, especially the Canvec import. There is also an amount of work left behind as I mentioned in my other

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec 10 and landcover issues

2012-10-19 Thread Frank Steggink
On 19-10-2012 21:46, Harald Kliems wrote: Hi Pierre, thanks for the response. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Pierre Béland infosbelas-...@yahoo.fr wrote: I dont know how you conclude that there is no wetlands around this area in Laval. It is not sufficient to see houses around to conclude

Re: [Talk-ca] Import des limites administratives, municipalités du Québec

2012-10-05 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Pierre, If I recall correctly, Daniel once mentioned that the municipality boundaries were to become part of Canvec. I don't know when that would eventually happen, but he or someone from NRCan might confirm that. Or someone who has connections in the Quebec government might attempt to

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-23 Thread Frank Steggink
lake with a inner role in the wooded area polygon relation?   Pierre De :Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org À : talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Envoyé le : Mardi 21 août 2012 13h32 Objet : [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues Hi, Today I was contacted by someone inquiring

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Frank Steggink
/recherche.aspx?s=lac-ouimetx=0y=0 for lac Ouimet results Pierre *De :* Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org *À :* talk-ca@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Mardi 21 août 2012 13h32 *Objet :* [Talk-ca] Canvec

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues

2012-08-22 Thread Frank Steggink
area polygon relation? */Pierre/**//* *De :*Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org *À :* talk-ca@openstreetmap.org *Envoyé le :* Mardi 21 août 2012 13h32 *Objet :* [Talk-ca] Canvec import issues Hi, Today I was contacted

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Bruno, Although there are many more European datasets listed in the catalogue, many of them are very small, covering only a city, province, etc. In North America there are a few, but very large datasets which have been imported or are in the process of being imported. Examples in the US

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Thread Frank Steggink
On 31-7-2012 15:09, Bruno Remy wrote: Does this Quebec city Opendata Licence compatible with OSM? (Y/N) And Why? http://donnees.ville.quebec.qc.ca/licence.aspx I'll give this a try with my understanding of French, so be aware... ;) I'll only pay attention to the clauses which might be an

Re: [Talk-ca] Noms autochtones

2012-07-17 Thread Frank Steggink
Quoting Fabian Rodriguez magic...@member.fsf.org: On 07/17/2012 06:38 PM, Bruno Remy wrote: bonjour, Avez-vous déjà pensé à l'indication des lieux autochtones? Il y en a beaucoup à travers le Canada et comment les intégrer à nos cartographies à tendance francophones ou anglophones dans nos

Re: [Talk-ca] How did you start in OSM?

2012-07-07 Thread Frank Steggink
On 6-7-2012 13:27, Richard Weait wrote: Do you remember how you first heard of OSM, or first got mapping? I think the first sign I saw of OSM was in a post on slashdot in June 2006. Share your story. How'd you get started? ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Tr : [OSGeo-qc] Données ouvertes : gouvernement du Québec...

2012-06-30 Thread Frank Steggink
Nicolas, thanks a lot for the data and the information! Of course the first page I went to was the License page: [1] Unfortunately this license doesn't seem to be compatible with any of the current OSM licenses (neither CC-BY-SA nor ODbL). The reason is that the license states that it it non

Re: [Talk-ca] CBC English; no - françias; oui

2012-05-30 Thread Frank Steggink
On 30-5-2012 18:41, Bruno Remy wrote: Hi folks! Here from Quebec city (Qc) we're starting a local OSM group of mapping users and contributors. Hope we'll have fun and a lot of mapping partys ! At first, we'd like to exchange working expriences with the gang of Toronto saw recently on

Re: [Talk-ca] Quebec's Bermuda Triangle

2012-04-10 Thread Frank Steggink
On 10-4-2012 21:53, Pierre Béland wrote: Harald, It probably mean that this have been corrected already but that tiles have not been updated yet for all zoom levels. I often see that when a erase a feature, updates can be made rapidly at some zoom levels and not at others. And after a day or

Re: [Talk-ca] Clean up progress and last push

2012-03-31 Thread Frank Steggink
On 31-3-2012 7:25, Richard Weait wrote: Okay, so, u. Wow! I've been looking around with the OSM Inspector to see how the license clean up is progressing elsewhere. You've been busy. Victoria and Nanaimo looked pretty dire a few weeks ago. They're in much better shape now. Southwestern

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec data offset

2012-01-31 Thread Frank Steggink
I've seen some of these deviations as well during Canvec import. Because they are so small ( 1 meter), I just decided to glue the polygons together, so any slivers are gone. It is inconvenient though. Could it be related to that some sheets were originally still in NAD27, instead of NAD83

Re: [Talk-ca] User r_coastlines

2011-12-19 Thread Frank Steggink
On 19-12-2011 20:38, john whelan wrote: Yes because it is the individual contributor who has to accept the OSM's new licensing terms, the data was not imported directly from CANVEC into OSM. As a Canadian tax payer I'm not quite certain I like the idea of OSM having the power to re-license

Re: [Talk-ca] User r_coastlines

2011-12-19 Thread Frank Steggink
On 19-12-2011 18:57, Andrew Allison wrote: Hello: Unless I'm missing something or it's a bug Using the OSM Inspector tool. The coastline data as going to be removed, or at least a significant amount.

[Talk-ca] Canvec source tags (was: User r_coastlines)

2011-12-19 Thread Frank Steggink
On 19-12-2011 22:20, john whelan wrote: But recently I noted that the CANVEC tags are being removed. Two people in the talk-ca list mentioned recently they had done so. Cheerio John According to my mailbox the answers were different. Jonathan mentioned that he used other data sources, so the

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec source tags

2011-12-19 Thread Frank Steggink
On 19-12-2011 22:40, Frank Steggink wrote: On 19-12-2011 22:20, john whelan wrote: But recently I noted that the CANVEC tags are being removed. Two people in the talk-ca list mentioned recently they had done so. Cheerio John According to my mailbox the answers were different. Jonathan

Re: [Talk-ca] import complaints

2011-12-05 Thread Frank Steggink
On 4-12-2011 15:22, Steve Singer wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Connors, Bernie (SNB) wrote: Richard, Do you have a link to Import Guidelines that are specific to Canvec data? I think http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec needs to have some specific guidelines for canvec imports. In

Re: [Talk-ca] new goodies on OSM -- Canvec artifacts

2011-11-27 Thread Frank Steggink
On 25-11-2011 16:04, Richard Weait wrote: Dear All, The London hack weekend starts in a few hours in London (yay!), England (oh.) One of these days I'll organize a hack weekend in London, Ontario, just for laughs. Interesting things come out of these hack weekends and sometimes we see the

Re: [Talk-ca] Unexperience user?

2011-11-11 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Daniel, I just had contact with him yesterday after I noticed the incorrect rendering. He responded quickly. I asked him whether he was aware of the problems, and if he could use some help. He has seen the flooding and reverted some of the changes yesterday, notably the broken coastline

Re: [Talk-ca] Unexperience user?

2011-11-11 Thread Frank Steggink
is another topic, which has been discussed before. Frank On 11-11-11 10:31 PM, Frank Steggink wrote: Hi Daniel, I just had contact with him yesterday after I noticed the incorrect rendering. He responded quickly. I asked him whether he was aware of the problems, and if he could use some help. He has

Re: [Talk-ca] Ping John Whelan?

2011-06-07 Thread Frank Steggink
On 11-06-07 06:31 PM, Richard Weait wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:24 PM, john whelanjwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: I would be extremely happy to see all my edits removed. So you are happy to be known as a vandal, in order to ... Why? That seems odd. He wants his data removed, and he

Re: [Talk-ca] Railways duplicated in CanVec data

2011-06-03 Thread Frank Steggink
On 11-06-03 05:30 AM, Samuel Longiaru wrote: OK... I can set up one dedicated to Canvec imports. That's no problem if that is the preferred practice. I do remember now reading that reference in the Wiki that states Consider creating a new user for the import but I interpreted the reason

Re: [Talk-ca] Lake Simcoe - two versions?

2011-05-30 Thread Frank Steggink
On 11-05-30 09:15 PM, Me (Gmail) wrote: I've been working on improving the Barrie, Ontario area, and I'm trying to figure out what is going on with/what to do about Lake Simcoe. There are multiple CanVec-imported ways that together make up a fairly detailed, accurate representation of the lake.

Re: [Talk-ca] Railways duplicated in CanVec data

2011-05-29 Thread Frank Steggink
@Daniel: I finally got around to add a few more issues to the page mentioned by Adam last week. I'm not sure if you or anyone else also encountered them, but here they are: * Some roads are tagged as highway=unclasified (with one 's'). These are mostly linking roads, and usually have

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM data growth in New Brunswick - Help.

2011-03-15 Thread steggink
Hi Bernie, You may want to check out the OSM Mapper service from the company ITO World: http://www.itoworld.com/static/osm_mapper.html One of the things you can do is to visualize data changes over time. I'm not sure if this can cover the entire province, or is limited to a lower level.

Re: [Talk-ca] A present to us

2011-02-03 Thread Frank Steggink
On 11-02-03 09:14 PM, Richard Weait wrote: Zoomed in example. http://open.mapquest.ca/link/6-cO9mOA4Z I think they've made an improvement in interchange rendering. Looks good :) However, I wonder what the (C)2011 MapQuest is doing in the lower right corner. Something for Hurricane / Emilie

Re: [Talk-ca] A present to us

2011-02-03 Thread Frank Steggink
On 11-02-03 10:18 PM, Richard Weait wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Frank Stegginkstegg...@steggink.org wrote: On 11-02-03 09:14 PM, Richard Weait wrote: Zoomed in example. http://open.mapquest.ca/link/6-cO9mOA4Z I think they've made an improvement in interchange rendering. Looks

Re: [Talk-ca] A present to us

2011-02-03 Thread Frank Steggink
On 11-02-03 10:18 PM, Richard Weait wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Frank Stegginkstegg...@steggink.org wrote: On 11-02-03 09:14 PM, Richard Weait wrote: Zoomed in example. http://open.mapquest.ca/link/6-cO9mOA4Z I think they've made an improvement in interchange rendering. Looks

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product -Completed!

2011-01-26 Thread steggink
Salut Daniel, Thanks for the great work. Yes, I'm still following the Canvec progress. Maybe I'll upload some of the Quebec City area sheets :) Regarding toponyms, for the Dutch landuse import we had a similar issue. It wasn't that natural=land is hiding other features, because it's

Re: [Talk-ca] Street name upload

2011-01-26 Thread steggink
Quoting Bégin, Daniel daniel.be...@rncan-nrcan.gc.ca: Salut osmers, Is there an easy way (an application of some kind) that can be used to transfer street name from Canvec street network/Karlsruhe schema to name tag on existing road network. This release of Canvec.osm in Quebec area

Re: [Talk-ca] Ignore that last question I figured it out.

2010-08-12 Thread Frank Steggink
On 10-08-12 06:27 PM, G. Michael Carter wrote: Seems JOSM has a tag on the object called action node id='20266016' action='delete' ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca Hi Michael,

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product almost...

2010-06-19 Thread Frank Steggink
Salut Daniel, Yes, I'm still alive :) but unfortunately I can't find much time to follow what is going on in Canada. (The import of Dutch landuse data is partially to blame ;) ) As you might expect, I've looked a bit at the 021L14 data (Quebec City area). Here are some comments, and hopefully

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec Product - osm format

2010-03-10 Thread steggink
Bégin wrote: Bonjour tout le monde, I've started to document the Canvec.osm product in the wiki. I'll use the Canvec related pages to do it http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec. The geometric data model is open for discussion

Re: [Talk-ca] Errors importing NRN shapefiles

2010-02-28 Thread steggink
Hi Bob, Can you try to add the option -W latin1 ? (the -W needs to be uppercase) This will take care of the encoding. Probably the default encoding is different from the one in the shapefile (which is always latin1). HTH, Frank Citeren Robert Shand b...@shand.org.uk: Hi Everyone, I'm

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec mep feature 1150012 10- Coastal water - (Eau côtière) = Ocean - ( Océan )

2010-02-15 Thread steggink
Quoting Yves Moisan yves.moi...@boreal-is.com: I agree with this approach. In the test area I imported I followed the procedure you described. There were a few larger river mouths, but they were clearly indicated. Right now I'm getting myself moved back to the Netherlands, I want to say

Re: [Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

2010-02-11 Thread steggink
Hi Bob, Since there was never an agreement from the government of PEI, the best thing would be to remove the data from OSM asap, even though it looks pretty cool. Making a legally unencumbered geospatial dataset is the main goal of OSM, and not just generating pretty maps. Instead of

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries of Québec

2010-02-04 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Gignac wrote: The contact I had in the government of Quebec have raised issues on delivering up-to-date datasets in OSM, such as the Administrative boundaries of Québec (BDGA). Could someone help this person to understand quickly the advantage for his organisation to

Re: [Talk-ca] Imported Canvec buildings with multiple nodes

2010-01-26 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Pierre-Luc, Are you referring to buildings near Montreal or near Quebec City. In both cases buildings have been updated recently. Or are you talking about buildings outside of Quebec? If you would like to know who has uploaded them, you can select a building, and view the history. When you

Re: [Talk-ca] Imported Canvec buildings with multiple nodes

2010-01-26 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi, The duplicate building nodes can be (more or less) efficiently fixed with JOSM. When you install the Validator plugin (perhaps it's already done by default by now), you'll see which nodes are duplicated. The simplest way to solve them would be to use the Fix button. However, generally it

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-24 Thread Frank Steggink
Nicolas Gignac wrote: Yeah, I know, but as an overlays it is still showing what it can be integrated into OSM, it is a good start!!! What is your strategy to clear legal details? If you need help stay in touch with me, because I am working in the government of Quebec and I know really well

[Talk-ca] Import of large features in Canvec

2010-01-24 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi all, Today I have (finally) worked on large features in Canvec data (forests, water, etc.), and I have come up with a method how to deal with them. This currently involves PostGIS, but maybe I'll use GEOS or another method, so that it isn't necessary to load data in a DB. More details will

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Steggink
Emilie Laffray wrote: On 23/01/2010 06:38, Sam Vekemans wrote: Mapnik -osm2pgsql layers Thats awesome visualization! Is it possable to create a mapnik osm2pgsql set of layers that would allow seeing just select features? I guess im talking about a wmf service. (which i barely

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Steggink
Lennard wrote: Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: You have strong Mapnik / osm2pgsql skills! :) The force is strong in this apprentice. Master Ldp, OK, I needed some guidance. So what? I'll spare the details; that would only be humiliating. ;) Frank

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-22 Thread Frank Steggink
Frank Steggink wrote: Frank Steggink wrote: Hi, As a bit of a challenge I've looked at the administrative data pointed out by Nicolas Gignac: [1]. I know there are some doubts about the accuracy, but this was also meant as an exercise to deal with this kind of data. Maybe it can

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries of Québec

2010-01-19 Thread steggink
Hi Pierre-Luc, Thank you for your insights. I was under the impression that the Communautés métropolitaines had less authority than MRCs, although I didn't look into it. If it weren't for these comets (as this dataset is called), there wouldn't be a problem. However, when looking at the

[Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-18 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi, As a bit of a challenge I've looked at the administrative data pointed out by Nicolas Gignac: [1]. I know there are some doubts about the accuracy, but this was also meant as an exercise to deal with this kind of data. Maybe it can be reused for other purposes, although I haven't written

Re: [Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries Quebec

2010-01-18 Thread Frank Steggink
Frank Steggink wrote: Hi, As a bit of a challenge I've looked at the administrative data pointed out by Nicolas Gignac: [1]. I know there are some doubts about the accuracy, but this was also meant as an exercise to deal with this kind of data. Maybe it can be reused for other purposes

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

2010-01-15 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] FW: Canvec import in Montréal with ? names

2009-12-11 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi, I'll create a number of OSM files based on Geobase which can be imported by Daniel. Re. the existing data, it might be better to remove it, although I don't know how much it is. Daniel, are your imports only confined to Laval, or do they extend other tiles? I can create a script which can

Re: [Talk-ca] FW: Canvec import in Montréal with ? names

2009-12-11 Thread Frank Steggink
are secondary or tertiary. I think this depends on whether there are buildings along it, correct? Perhaps this is best to be fixed by someone familiar with this area. I could also change it, and someone else can update my corrections. Frank Frank Steggink wrote: Hi, I'll create a number of OSM

Re: [Talk-ca] FW: Canvec import in Montréal with ? names

2009-12-11 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Daniel, The problem is confined in and around Laval area. It won't be necessary to remove the roads because there is already a lot of work that have been done and I am completing the correction - using JOSM. If the community give me enough time ;-) It will be all set properly soon :-)

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM

2009-12-09 Thread Frank Steggink
any local meetings. Several of them have listed themselves on the wiki: [4]. There is even a separate city page for Duncan: [5], listing another local mapper. Cheers, Frank Steggink [1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features [3

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Canvec import

2009-12-08 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Sam, I'll try to keep it short, and I won't crosspost to Imports and OSM dev Sherbrooke. Only the original message was posted to those lists as well, since there have been Canvec-related discussions on them in the past. What was not mentioned is that CanVec is just 1 of the many datasets

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec import chat @Sherbrook

2009-12-06 Thread Frank Steggink
Sam Vekemans wrote: Hi Frank, I get the feeling that the group doesnt want me to be working with the import process anymore (since i wasnt invited to the chat after Emelie was done speaking) is that a fair assumption? Anyway, thats (seriously) fine for me, as its a BIG wait off my

Re: [Talk-ca] buildings to OSM

2009-12-02 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi M.A. Gagnon, The goal is to import nearly all of the features of Canvec. That is why the conversion script is converting all the themes at once, but not per theme. However, I can imagine that it is more convenient to focus on one or a few themes at first. This would be a nice addition for

Re: [Talk-ca] Help for Canvec to OSM for part of NB

2009-11-21 Thread Frank Steggink
and installing setuptools or maybe easy_install John *From:* Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org *To:* JOHN SMART smarto...@rogers.com *Cc:* talk-ca@openstreetmap.org *Sent:* Sat, November 21, 2009 12:23

Re: [Talk-ca] Help for Canvec to OSM for part of NB

2009-11-20 Thread Frank Steggink
includes GDAL and OGR. What more / different do I need, to satisfy this Python bindings requirement? Am I still on the right track? Thanks for any more help John *From:* Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org *To:* John

Re: [Talk-ca] Help for Canvec to OSM for part of NB

2009-11-20 Thread Frank Steggink
://www.steggink.org/osm/Geobase_NB_021N/021n08_out.osm.zip [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?mlat=47.375mlon=-68.25minlat=47.25minlon=-68.5maxlat=47.5maxlon=-68box=yeslayers=B000FTF Frank Steggink wrote: Hi John, It's been a while ago since I installed this. I didn't have GDAL on my machine

[Talk-ca] Canvec Import Party Sherbrooke

2009-11-19 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi all, Hereby I would like to announce the Canvec Import Party, which will be held in Sherbrooke, Québec, on December 5th. It has been referred to as the couch mapping party, but at the intended location there are no couches available ;) The location is a computer lab at the University of

Re: [Talk-ca] Help for Canvec to OSM for part of NB

2009-11-19 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi John, Thanks for looking at the scripts. Please see below. John Smart wrote: Hello I would like to take a shot at updating the OSM for some of New Brunswick, which presently does not have very much mapping compiled. The plan I think I'd like to follow is: 1. Select an NTS 1:50 000

[Talk-ca] Python version of canvec-to-osm

2009-11-11 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi, I have created a python version of canvec-to-osm. It does basically the same as Sam's batch files. With it, 1 or 16 tiles are downloaded, converted, and put in a ZIP file. The script can be found here: http://www.steggink.org/osm/Canvec/Canvec-to-osm_v0.1.zip Requirements: - Python 2.6

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] canvec-to-osm 0.9.6 now available

2009-11-07 Thread Frank Steggink
Sam Vekemans wrote: Im not making a new script, the folks who understand python, are making a script that can solve the 'duplicate intersecting nodes' and 'inner/outer relation' problem. (Yes you might have fixed it, but i've reached the crux of my technical ability) Sure, they can use

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] canvec-to-osm 0.9.6 now available

2009-11-07 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Ian, Ian Dees wrote: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org mailto:stegg...@steggink.org wrote: Sam, can you give some additional clarification what your intentions are? I'm afraid I'm not following them well. When you mentioning removing

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] canvec-to-osm 0.9.6 now available

2009-11-07 Thread Frank Steggink
Ian Dees wrote: I normally upload my NHD changesets with 40k-50k changes in each upload without problem. It takes an hour or so to apply (depending on server load), but it works without error. What program are you using for the upload? Is it bulk-upload, JOSM, or

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec / shp-to-osm -multi-polygons -residential area

2009-10-26 Thread steggink
Quoting Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com: Ok, for the residential area, i have the tags in the relation, and not on the outer, nor on the inner. Is that OK? It still renders (i would think) Sam Hi Sam, The Multipolygon wiki page [1] explains it better than I could do: The

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec / shp-to-osm

2009-10-25 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Sam, I've just downloaded some CanVec data, and had a look at sheets 031I07 and -08. I wonder what you mean by uploading all sub-residential files. I understand that the data is separated over multiple files, because of certain limitations. In the residential OSM files I also see no

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec / shp-to-osm

2009-10-25 Thread Frank Steggink
of features without any tags. Solution: * shp-to-osm needs to be adjusted, so that the outer polygon will get the tags, but the inner polygons will not. * shp-to-osm should be called without the -t parameter. Is this possible? Frank Frank Steggink wrote: Hi Sam, I've just downloaded some CanVec

Re: [Talk-ca] Correcting Geobase_import_2009

2009-10-25 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi John, I personally think it would be better to do the cleanup immediately after the import, or possible during the import. Of course it is very tedious to do so, and it will slow down the import, but the person who is doing the import, knows best which roads were omitted. The goal is not

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec / shp-to-osm

2009-10-25 Thread Frank Steggink
are that good, but at least they correspond to the areas in the raster file.) Frank [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/2952729 Sam Vekemans wrote: On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org mailto:stegg...@steggink.org wrote: Hi, I think to know

[Talk-ca] New user adding data, not sure what to do

2009-09-11 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi list, I just _knew_ it would happen. As soon as I would start the Geobase import, some user would step up, and start adding data to the areas I'm about to import. And this is exactly what happened. To my surprise I discovered a whole lot of data southeast of Quebec City, in the

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase and Canvec import tools

2009-09-10 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Richard, This approach makes for many more change sets and each change set is likely to be a single object of some sort. They still have to break these up further if the single relation is too big, but they aim for a changeset of about 1,000 items total. Too bad that the NTS tiles

Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Import chart

2009-09-07 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Sam, I think I've done enough import for now. 9 1/4 sheet of data. The 1/4 sheet was a section near Quebec City (021L14) with a lot of data and a lot of cleanup necessary. When you say 'sheets' im assuming you mean NTS tiles right? Yes, that's correct. In my parlance sheets

Re: [Talk-ca] NTS sheet to lat/lon converter

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steggink
Frank Steggink wrote: Hi, Because it is not obvious to everyone what the extent of the NTS sheets is, I've created a little service which converts them to lat/lon coordinates. It is also possible to show them directly as a box in OpenStreetMap. I'm not sure if a similar service exists

Re: [Talk-ca] NTS sheet to lat/lon converter

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steggink
it for that tile you listed in there. What area are you in? Cheers, Sam Twitter: @Acrosscanada Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org mailto:stegg...@steggink.org wrote: Frank Steggink wrote: Hi

Re: [Talk-ca] NTS sheet to lat/lon converter

2009-08-20 Thread Frank Steggink
Richard Weait wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Frank Stegginkstegg...@steggink.org wrote: Hi, Because it is not obvious to everyone what the extent of the NTS sheets is, I've created a little service which converts them to lat/lon coordinates. It is also possible to show them

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Geobase import: giving a try

2009-02-16 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Richard, Sam, Steve, Thanks for your feedback. I'll continue using PostGIS (good for my own skills as well), and look at the other suggestions you've made. I'll also leave the NIDs on the data which I will eventually upload. They don't hurt, although there is the theoretical possibility

[Talk-ca] OSM Geobase import: giving a try

2009-02-15 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi, I've sent below mail to Michel, who I met at the Sherbrooke mapping party last year, but I presume he's quite busy, so I'm posting it here. I haven't really been following the talk-ca mailing list, but I would like to give it a try. I don't know yet how much time and energy I'm willing to

Re: [Talk-ca] OSM Geobase import: giving a try

2009-02-15 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Steve, Thanks for your response. Yes the wiki needs a cleanup, I've been hoping someone else would do it since that doesn't seem to be happening I will try to find sometime soon to delete all obsolete information from the wiki pages. I'll try to do some cleanup, once I have a better