Hi, Just also cc:ing Daniel for your notes. :)
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Adam Dunn <[email protected]> wrote: > Opened up 092G06. > > highway=unclassified is misspelled. The 092G06 data has highway=unclasified > (with one 's'). Great find! > > footway bridges appear to be duplicated on top of the non-bridge footway > that they are a part of. In other words, a [highway=footway] will continue > the entire length of the path (including the bridge), and there is a second > way [highway=footway;bridge=yes] where only the bridge is. > > cardinal direction modifiers have 3 spaces after them (eg. "West 8th > Avenue"). I'm not sure what the standard is for OSM, since the wiki doesn't > seem to talk about it. I didn't know that :) > > railway/road intersections don't have a common node. There is also a very > long rail tunnel that runs from beside the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge down > to near the intersection of Trans-Canada Highway and Willingdon Avenue, but > this tunnel appears to be missing from Canvec. Good thing for OSM Local mappers to fix it, i'd say :) > > (as a side note: Canvec has the bridge for Trans-Canada going over Burrard > Inlet called "Hwy 1;Second Narrows Bridge;Trans-Canada Highway;TransCanada > Highway" {note the Second Narrows Bridge part}. It should actually be called > "Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing" and the rail bridge beside it > is "Second Narrows Bridge". See > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironworkers_Memorial_Second_Narrows_Crossing) > > Other data that I see in error is the standard "old source" problems > (buildings that have since been constructed/demolished, especially in the > rapid construction that happens at Univ. BC), streams/rivers not having > names (but that was expected). > Use the GeoBase WMS layer http://wms.cits.rncan.gc.ca/cgi/wms_en.cgi?map=/export/wms/mapfiles/rhn/geobase_rhn.map&version=1.1.1&service=WMS&request=Getmap&layer=HYDRO_AGGREGAT&format=image/png&STYLE=default&layers=GEOBASE_RHN_NHN&; and the Toporama WMS layer http://wms.ess-ws.nrcan.gc.ca/wms/toporama_en?LAYERS=limits,vegetation,builtup_areas,designated_areas,hydrography,hypsography,water_saturated_soils,landforms,constructions,water_features,road_network,railway,populated_places,structures,power_network,feature_names&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&STYLES=&EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage&FORMAT=image/png&; (im now working on getting CanTopo_geo.pdf maps convtered to WMS via MapWarper. http://warper.geothings.net/ Also, YanMorin has created the linear network flow for all of Canada as .osm files, http://osm.progysm.com/rncan/geobase/nhn_rhn/ and it includes the oneway=yes with proper direction arrows, as well as proper geometry (for BC basin) and river names where available :) > It's nice to see that highway=*_link is being used. It was a pain trying to > figure those out with NRN. > > Adam > And again, everyone is welcome on the #osm-ca IRC chat irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm-ca to join in while working for help, the more people who know the inns and outs of this stuff the better :-) Sam > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Bégin, Daniel >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Bonjour! >> > >> > Before the Canvec.osm production starts, I have produced complete NTS >> > datasets for samples previously offered - actually I have expanded the >> > samples to cover the entire NTS tile and add 092G06. >> > >> > Each NTS dataset have been tiled using a quadtree algorithm - a nice >> > example >> > of the result is 092G06 ! The .osm subtiles are zipped all together. >> > We >> > are still using WinZip but we might eventually move to gzip or bzip. >> > >> > Have a look! >> > And, by the way, can you make sure everything is still OK with the data? >> >> Wonderful news, Daniel! And congratulations. >> >> I'll take a look but am slightly {natural=wetland; wetland=swamp}ed, >> right now. Is it helpful if I have a look next week? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
