Richard, Don't forget to drop a line to Michel Gilbert. I know he has updated geobase data using a Python script of his own. Contact him offline about it.
Yves Le mardi 18 novembre 2008 à 14:07 -0500, Richard Weait a écrit : > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:31 -0700, Jason Reid wrote: > > I did some initial prototyping of an import script (which is in the SVN > > repository) about a year or so ago that we can probably use as a > > starting point in going forward, the largest issues that I ran into then > > were in coming up with mappings of what goes to what, which varies per > > province. So in reality it isn't so much a single large dataset but > > rather 13 distinct imports for just the roads alone as each province and > > territory has their own classification system (what may be a officially > > considered secondary highway in one province may be a primary or > > tertiary in the neighboring and may not match up with the common OSM > > guidelines for any, for instance) that has been incorporated into the > > mappings that Geobase use in the data files. > > Perhaps we can get started with the boundaries at GeoBase? I don't > think we have another source for them and so no conflicts when importing > them. > > GeoBase also has aerial photography. Depending on the location, it can > be better resolution than the landsat and Y! images. So perhaps one of > the WMS folks will take a look at that too. > > Best regards, > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
