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 (probably NRCan > has one), but this might also be useful for the Geobase import. > > The main entry page is at http://www.steggink.org/geo/ > At the bottom you can enter the NTS sheet number. It can be done in the > formats 'NNN', 'NNNL' or 'NNNLNN' where N is a number and L is a letter. > > When you press the Submit button, you'll go to a page which shows the > center coordinates. (No extent yet.) For example, entering '021L14' (the > sheet containing Quebec City) leads you to > http://www.steggink.org/geo/nts_area/021L14. From there you can go to > various services accepting coordinates, like OSM. > > When you press the OSM button in the main page, you'll directly see the > result as a box in OSM. The "calculated" URL > http://www.steggink.org/geo/nts_area/021L14/osmbox gets you redirected > (HTTP 301) to the OSM site: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-71.5&minlat=46.75&maxlon=-71&maxlat=47&box=yes > > This means that you can also use the URL at my site as a template, > replace the bbox, and you'll directly go to the OSM page. The next idea > I had would be to using these URLs at the Geobase import status page, so > everybody sees directly what area exactly was imported. > > If you notice any errors (especially in the polar regions, due to the > inconsitent box sizes), please report them to me. And yeah, this is not > entirely RESTful, because errors are also returned as HTTP 200 - OK :) > > Regards, > > Frank > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > Sorry for not escaping the URLs properly. The second one should be this: <http://www.steggink.org/geo/nts_area/021L14>. (should work with those brackets).
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