Hi John, What tile area ares you interested in?
New Brunswick is in the 021 & 022 area http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/browse.do?produit=cded&decoupage=50k&map=021 You can see a chart of what the GeoBase NRN status is like for New Brunswick http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/nrn/status.html I have added you as an editor to the Canada import Status Googledocs Chart. Cheers, Sam Vekemans OSM Canada Import Coordinator On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:33 PM, John Smart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > I would like to take a shot at updating the OSM for some of New > Brunswick, which presently does not have very much mapping compiled. The > plan I think I'd like to follow is: > > 1. Select an NTS 1:50 000 area that has few roads and which has no OSM > or minimal OSM. > 2. Run script(s) to generate OSM from the Canvec data set. At this point > I am only interested in roads, to prove the process for that. > 3. Upload the OSM. > 4. Have some people (you?) review the data, make comments. > 5. Iterate the process a bit till quality good (or I give up!) > 6. If I'm still here, maybe add some more. > > Any comments on my plan are very welcome, especially helpful tips! > > The part I'm currently interested in is #2, generating OSM from Canvec. > I saw on the mailing list that there is a python script called > canvec_to_osm_features.py, and I have downloaded that. However, I have > difficulty running it on my Windows XP box. Specifically: > - I can launch python (which I happen to have on my path) > - But if I just run "C:\Canvec2Osm>python canvec_to_osm_features.py > --version" then nothing happens. > > I'd appreciate any comments on exactly what I need to do to get this .py > script to work. > > Lastly (for now) I think that if I get the .py working, I will > immediately run into a problem with shp-to-osm. Like the .py readme > said, I have made a bin directory and I've put the shp-to-osm in there. > Actually I have both: > 2009-11-11 17:37 7,365,493 > shp-to-osm-0.7.3-jar-with-dependencies.jar > 2009-11-11 17:37 7,365,493 shp-to-osm.jar > in case there is some naming problem. Have I done the right thing? > > Thanks for any help. I hope I won't get frustrated and that I'll be able > to help the project a bit! > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
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