Oops, i responded to james off-list accedently (on my mobile) Anyway the imports@ list threw me a curve ball & a new version of shp-to-os & discussions with daniel on the phone & the inner/outer delema ...
So with all that, im working hard to get the script out of beta & ready to use ASAP. I think next week it should be ready. (as you all know, i work 'round the clock on this, but its worth it) Great to work with all these brillient tallented folks. And thanks to everyone who is keeping the chart uptodate :-) cheers, Sam On 11/5/09, James A. Treacy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > In comparing geobase NHN vs canvec data I noticed that canvec has both > ID and SOURCEID. SOURCEID is the same as the NID from geobase. No idea > where the canvec ID comes from. The only unique piece of information > (at least for NHN data) that follows the data in both geobase and > canvec is the geobase NID. > > geobase NHN data does not have the CODE tag. > > My question is, shouldn't we use the geobase NID (canvec SOURCEID) > as the main identifier for data? If not, why? > > This does not preclude also including CODE when it exists. > > -- > James Treacy > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
