Yes the new canvec are split into different types of data: hydro data(lakes rivers etc), forest(loads of fun), transportation(this is what you want), etc
On Sep 12, 2016 4:08 PM, "Martijn van Exel" <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > Aren't these files grouped by feature type? So if we look at roads we > wouldn't also necessarily need to look at land use boundaries etc.? At > least that's what I am getting looking at http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/ > en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/23387971-b6d3-4ded-a40b-c8e832b4ea08.html > > -- > Martijn van Exel > m...@rtijn.org > > > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016, at 12:59, James wrote: > > 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" <rps...@gmail.com> 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" <m...@rtijn.org> 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 > m...@rtijn.org > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > >
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