Hi Sam, In shapefile format, the natural choice is Statistics Canada Census Subdivision boundaries (the most recent is for 2010). Census subdivisions are typically municipalities or equivalents. Here is the link: http://geodepot.statcan.gc.ca/2006/040120011618150421032019/031904_05-eng.jsp
The data is under a similar (the same?) unlimited use license as the NRN. Dan On 06/23/2010 07:22 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Hi, > I'm cc'ing your notice to talk-ca. > > So the CanMatrix TIFFs, although georeferenced, they are older. > However, they can still be used with Merkaarator. > > For those of you who have been under a rock about Merkaarator, (like > me) the editing tool is very good. > It allows nice viewing of WMS layers, which seems to be better than JOSM. > > Whats surprising, is that the area which is the Capital Region > District boundary, as well as the backroads are actually available. > > This significant for ALL of Canada, because it means that there is no > need to approach the cities about data, until these CanTopo& > CanMatrix PDFs and TIFFs have been fully exhausted. > > So on top of the CanVec data, that were all looking forward to seeing, > we can further detail the OSM map with this stuff. > > Note: City Boundary data could very well be available as SHP files. If > anyone finds it, please do share :-), then we can create a rules.txt > and make the .osm files available. > > Cheers, > Sam > > On 6/23/10, Russell<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Good news, >> >> I finally found a way to export GeoPDFs to GeoTIFF with GlobalMapper 11. So >> if you want some cantopos converted for Merkaartor usage, let me know and I >> can take care of that. You can download a few tiffs I converted here: >> http://cantopo.russellporter.ca/ >> For some reason, 092j02 is waay off what is in OSM, but the other two are >> fine.. Not sure what is up but maybe everything has been traced on Yahoo >> imagery in Whistler causing the problem? Anyways 092j03 and 092g06 are fine >> which is what is important for me. >> >> Russell >> >> > > _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
