Cool, that just added another todo list item :) And so, the GeoTIFFs, albiet dated, can be used as a handy backdrop background.
Sorting the data by physical geographical area, seems to be what the cool people does these days. NTS grid is prefered. Cheers, Sam On 6/23/10, Dan Putler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
