Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-10-01 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi, A while back I created a python script to split a NRN GML file into smaller parts. This was done to speed up the conversion of geobase2osm. The updated version can be here, and it is very alpha: http://www.steggink.org/temp/nrn_splitter_02.py.txt 1st parameter (mandatory, no error handling

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-10-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
Yup, its slighty more complicated. so with the effort to make the .osm files available, roadmatcher 'aught' to be run. My own ignorance for not wanting to learn, is just bugging others. So should really stop that :-) On the wiki 'geobase import' steveS did a great job of explaining it and the ste

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-10-01 Thread Emilie Laffray
Hum, ok, where can I find the gml files? What size do you want your slice to be? The solution would be to use ogr2ogr first to transform into a shapefile. The next step is to transform the shapefile into an osm file. Finally, you would be using Osmosis to cut using bounding box. No need for Postgis

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-10-01 Thread Sam Vekemans
Nothing, actually. :) Just for a volunteer to take each whole province gml file and slice it in a couple chunks, and make the .osm files available, (on a server somewhere) so then newbies like me, can run with it and just copy in the roads that we need. (doing so in a tileBYtile area, claiming our

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-10-01 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/9/27 Sam Vekemans > Thanks, > Slowely but surely it's getting easier. Awesome :) > I'm a newbie at this, but im sure there is a VisualBasic programmer > out there who can make a handy GUI with a bare-bones program. If thats > technically possable? I dont know. ... if there's a way to avo

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-10-01 Thread Steven Singer
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Sam Vekemans wrote: Sam + Sam The attached script (some form of unix/linux required) should take the various raw shapefiles (which you will have to download from statscan, geobase and nrcan and the cloudmade osm extract) and populate a postgis database with the required d

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-09-26 Thread Sam Vekemans
Thanks, Slowely but surely it's getting easier. Awesome :) I'm a newbie at this, but im sure there is a VisualBasic programmer out there who can make a handy GUI with a bare-bones program. If thats technically possable? I dont know. ... if there's a way to avoid installing other programs. .. ma

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-09-25 Thread Sam Dyck
Thanks for your help, when I did all that I got the message: Could not find the main class: com.vividsolutions.jump.workbench.JUMPWorkbench. It looks like I have some problems with JAVA. I have both JAVA and OpenJDK installed. So I will install a new distro (which I've been meaning to do for months

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-09-25 Thread Sam Vekemans
I'll try to explain: The older versions of the geobaseNRN.gml files will not be available to use for comparison to new geobaseNRN.gml files as they are available. Having this complete.osm file available, we can compare the 2 and get a 'geobaseNRN-results.osm file. We can then (later on) compare

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-09-25 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi Steve, (or others?) Perhaps you can the process of converting the .gml files into .osm and skip explaination of the road matcher process. This way, we will have instructions on how to create these .complete.osm files, and let the local people manually 'copy/paste' the roads that they want. Alb

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-09-25 Thread Sam Dyck
Hi Thanks I'll break it down 1. Obtain the NRN data files from Geobase as a shapefile (SHP). *Quite easy to do, just a simple download* 2. Generate a shapefile for the NRN data in an area (converted to WGS84), and a second shapefile based on existing OSM roads in the area. Ensure th

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-09-25 Thread Adam Dunn
I know the installation of JUMP on Linux is a little ambiguous, as the documentation for jump says that you just unzip and run. Reading through the RoadMatcher-unix-2.sh startup script, I can see that it is not quite this simple (or there is some installation documentation that I missed). When you

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-09-25 Thread Sam Dyck
Hi It's fine, I just keep using Potlatch and JOSM and the Yahoo! Aerial Imagery. I live in Winnipeg, which is Geobase tile 62 (sorry if you mean something else or that is not specific enough). The City of Winnipeg should have all roads named (along with many other things) soon thanks to some great

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-09-25 Thread Steve Singer
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Sam Dyck wrote: Can you give me an idea as to which parts/steps of the instructions at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase_NRN_-_OSM_Map_Feature your having problems with? I'm can try to clarify/provide more info on any steps that are unclear. Basically you need to

Re: [Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-09-25 Thread Sam Vekemans
(wish i could help with those gml files, but cant :( fortunatly, its just a matter of time, now that we have 5 or so people who know how. :) were all volunteers, i guess i need to be more patient :), but i still want it done yesterday :) anyway, what tile area are you in? sorry if i already aske

[Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

2009-09-25 Thread Sam Dyck
Hi Sorry to ask for help, but I really want to start importing Geobase data for Manitoba and Saskatchewan. If someone is able to help me install RoadMatcher on (open)JUMP and create Shapefiles from OSM data on a Debian GNU/Linux system. Again, if it is such an odious task forget it. But to the bes