Plus it would help identify which parts and canvec are actually needed vs importing a bunch of forests and hoping for some roads
On Sep 11, 2016 2:48 PM, "John Marshall" <[email protected]> wrote: > Great idea Martijn, > > One of the big problems of OSM in Canada is there are many missing road > where there are no local mappers. Canada is very big. Any tools to help map > unmapped area of Canada gets a big +1 from me. > > John > > John Marshall > > On Sep 9, 2016 17:36, "Martijn van Exel" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> A few colleagues at Telenav and myself are looking at Canvec 2016. Roads >> specifically. I am sure some of you already have done that. Something we >> are looking into a workflow that is something like this (simplified): >> >> Canvec 2016 Shapefiles --> Conflation engine (Cygnus [1]) --> Tasking >> manager >> >> The output of the conflation would be an OSM XML change file that could >> be (selectively) applied in JOSM. It would contain new / changed ways as >> well as some new or changed tags. All proposed updates would be verified >> manually (through tasking manager.) >> >> What do you think about this idea? >> >> The conflation engine takes OSM PBF as input, so the Canvec shapefiles >> would need to be translated (using ogr2osm). That would require an >> ogr2osm translation file. I wonder if someone already did this? (I am >> using this [2] attribute list as reference.) >> >> [1]https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mvexel/diary/37808 >> [2]http://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/vector/canvec/ >> doc/CanVec_Catalogue_50K_Transport/SRDB_EXPL_ESSIM_50K_Trans >> port-sd-en.html#div-1330009 >> -- >> Martijn van Exel >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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