So here's where we are at. fyi The water direction flow, is not included in CanVec/Toporama, but is available with the GeoBase WMS thats available.
We can convert the data on a national level, and it can be freely hosted on archive.org The script is rather easy to run (if you know how). For me its not a priority to get done, but Yan Morin (who i chatted with on #osm-ca IRC is tackling this, since experience was gathered in the conversion of an increasing size in Quebec. There is 2 issues with Language. 1 - we are missing out on ALOT of help, because this list is dominatly english. So those who dont speak french, or dont take time to translate, miss out on the volunteer efforts. One solution is for more people to help man the #osm-ca IRC. Currently, there are enough bilingual people who can assist and know whats going on, at a national level. So the info can be freely passed around. 2 - Tagging: I would recommend that the Parks Canada National Protected areas be written with "name=english park name/ french park name" and ALSO have the tags "name:en=english park" AND "name:fr=french park". So maybe this tagging method would be extended to all feature names? But for Quebec the provincial rivers/lakes/roads have the french name as default. So maybe only in New Brunswick should all tags be with the "/" for the "name=*". ? This, i think, is the reason why im promoting the idea of just making the OSM files available, and letting local mappers drop the data in. This way, even though the tags may not be 100%, but it allows for customizing as you like. And hey, if anyone wants to run the rules.txt over the source files again, they are welcome too. So ya, the purpose of working with Geobase NHN is 'cause the data is organized in water basins. & easier to work with. As its just following the water. ok thats all for now, cheers, Sam -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
