OpenStreetMap
Sample of Trails and more Canvec Data
Posted by geobase:acrosscanadatrails on 15 May 2009 in English.upload 1 sample of LX2420009_1trail
osm.org/browse/changeset/1198105
(viewable on the Osmarender)
upload 1 sample of LX2280009_1footbridge
osm.org/browse/changeset/1199765
upload 2of2 samples of IC2110009_2lumber_yard
osm.org/browse/changeset/1199612
I'll have the Converted OSM files available later today (hopefully)
Then it would be a good time to update the wiki.
Cheers,
Sam
Discussion
Comment from Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason on 15 May 2009 at 16:04
Your use of the U+FFFD replacement character in the data suggests some sort of encoding conversion problem.
Comment from acrosscanadatrails on 15 May 2009 at 16:30
It's the french accented letters which cause the conversion being wrong.
And i list the french word for each feature, as that's how it is from the source. (French is the Official 2nd language)
Would it be better to just list the 'english' & french text with ':en & :fr? as a separate tag?
I don't know how to add the different characters.
Do you have a better solution?
Thanks,
Comment from Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason on 15 May 2009 at 22:24
What encoding is the data originally in and how are you converting it? You converting "cour à bois" to "cour [U+FFFD] bois" suggests a easy-to-fix encoding issue in your code.
And yes, structured data is better, so perhaps
canvec:value=Lumber yard - ( Cour à bois )should be split up intocanvec:value:en=Lumber yardandcanvec:value:fr=Cour à bois. Although that tagging schema suggests those values came from the canvec dataset.