Thanks Steve, Thats a much better explaination than i can provide :-) cheers, Sam
On 9/20/09, Steve Singer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Frank Steggink wrote: > >> 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. > > What I do with the statscan data is > > 1. Load the larger (ie province wide )shapefile into postgis with shp2psql > 2. Generate a smaller shape file with something similar to the stored > procedure listed ont he wiki page > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase_NRN_-_OSM_Map_Feature#Road_Names_from_StatsCan) > 3. Run RoadMatcher on the smaller GeoBase shapefile and the StatsCan > shapefile > 4. I then pass the road matcher result to geobase2osm with the -n option. > > If you need more details/help with any of these steps let me know where the > gaps are and I can try to expand. > > > >> 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. > > I feel the complete files are useful becaues it gives someone the geobase > view of things. I find the excluded files are only useful to point out > areas where geobase might have missed roads or pointing out areas that > likely need some manual attention. If your giving manual attention to areas > before you uplaod to OSM then having the excluded files might not be that > valuable to someone else. > > >> >> Frank >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
