On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Sam Vekemans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Jan Tappenbeck created a cool perl script that will create a GPX track > file that is in a grid form. Awesome > http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/osm-matrix/ > > So from the instructions, i think it shouldn't be that hard to make a > national grid. > > perl osm-matrix.pl --name=chile --w=-73.8 --n=-32.65 --e=-69.25 --s=-38.65 > > > What i did is used the steps i wrote here > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada_NTS_Tile_System#Sample > and made a sample file of the 011 area. > The KMZ file that NRCan provides has a nice POI in the centre of each > square. This is helpfil to users. > > What i'd like to see (somehow) is the entire grid of Canada created > like this, and available as a Transparent WMS layer, so then the Users > can have this layer open while using the Toporama or GeoBaseNHN wms or > the (future CanTopoGeoTIFF WMS). > > So showing a point and also showing the name and description of the > tile area '011D12 Halifax' > > So it would be awesome to get this done. It's a little labour > intensive as i have to copy each of the converted .gpx files into the > same MapSource file, and do that 16 times over. Perhaps there is a > way to automate the process?
well you can script it, also in shell. for x in *.xyz; do echo $x; process $x; done > > Thanks, > Sam > > > 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 > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
