Hi Sam, > Yes, i think there is a limit to the number of rows that > GoogleSpreadsheet will allow.. so im not sure how to deal with that > yet. .. it's a work in progress :-) Split up per province, or per 8x4 degree sheet? By the way, I noticed you've started correcting the rows I've merged. I've completed them now. An in case you didn,'t know, here [1] is a NRCan site where you can find all tile names. Could be useful for the spreadsheet, but adding them might be a very big task, or you need to export the data from Google, and import them later ;) Not sure if that is possible. > Canvec doesn't deal with roads. But furtunatly, on the next update > from GeoBase, the roadsnames will be available. So your geobase2osm > script will need to be run again at a later time. Sorry, I meant statscan. I'm not sure how to add the data. The wiki page mentions "Download in shapefile format and use OpenJump to add road names from Statscan", but I don't know how to accomplish that. Regarding roads traced from Yahoo and other imagery: they're generally more accurate than the Geobase data, so I'm not sure if that would be a good idea. > Regarding standalone, and excluded. I think that as long as the full > area of geobase roads.osm file is made available, it doesnt really > matter what size the thing is. Take for example Vancouver Island. > It's only in the busy areas that the file gets big (megs), so you can > have an OSM file covering all of northern BC in 1 go. The point is > that this is available, so then when then next version of GeoBase > roads becomes available, we have something direct to match it with. > we can THEN make a DIFF file comparing the old and the new, and will > have a much smaller .osm file that needs to me merged into OSM. OK, so uploading the complete out.osm file is enough. I still have the standalone and excluded files, and tried to keep them in sync with the changes I made (after the initial upload and corrections), but I can't guarantee they're still right. I wonder if, once new Geobase data is available, it wouldn't be better to download the data from OSM. There is a chance that new additions have already been surveyed and added to OSM.
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