[Geowanking] Re: Canadian geocoding

[Daniel Haran]

Hi Tyler,

Thank you! At least now I know I'm after the right data.

I just received an answer from the people at geobase. It seems that
the best they can do is what they have now... a set separated in some
25,000+ smaller files (if my quick count is correct). I was told that
they are all genereated on the fly, so it seems absurd that they
wouldn't be able to generate just one big file. It's "free" all right,
but we still have to work for it :)

I can't spend the time learning how to script all of that right now,
nor do I have the server space for all of the files. If I get to it
before others, I'll post a torrent file to the list. (Wouldn't a web
service handle most of the uses we could have for this data?)

Cheers,

Daniel.

On 11/15/05, Tyler Mitchell <tylermitchell at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hey Daniel,
> I put some feelers out for you...hope they help.  Doesn't sound like there is
> much else out there :(  I'm very interested in having a large Canadian
> geographic names database as well.
>
> Tyler
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: RE: [Geowanking] Re: Canadian geocoding
> Date: November 14, 2005 11:45 am
> From: "Doyon, Jean-Francois" <Jean-Francois.Doyon at ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca>
> To: "'Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]'" <Tom.Kralidis at ec.gc.ca>, Tyler Mitchell
> <tylermitchell at shaw.ca>
>
> Definitely, though I agree that's painful and a lot of work for downloading
> a single data set :P
>
> I also suspect the files ARE all there on the FTP site anyways, so once you
> order the first 50, you can use the link to find all other files.  They'll
> still be cut up by NTS sheet though ...
>
> I e-mailed the geobase guys to find out ...
>
> One of the issues is that the FULL CGN1 dataset in one file is probably
> actually quite big ... 350 000 points plus attribution (where most of the
> interesting data is in this case).
>
> We'll see what they say ...
>
> J.F.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] [mailto:Tom.Kralidis at ec.gc.ca]
> Sent: November 14, 2005 2:42 PM
> To: Doyon, Jean-Francois; Tyler Mitchell
> Subject: RE: [Geowanking] Re: Canadian geocoding
>
>
> Can't someone write a smart enough shell script for this?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doyon, Jean-Francois
> > [mailto:Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca]
> > Sent: Monday, 14 November, 2005 14:38
> > To: 'Tyler Mitchell'; Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]; Doyon, Jean-Francois
> > Subject: RE: [Geowanking] Re: Canadian geocoding
> >
> >
> > That is the dataset one would want ... Let me see if I can find you a
> > better method of downloading it and get back to you ...
> >
> > J.F.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tylermitchell at shaw.ca]
> > Sent: November 13, 2005 2:34 AM
> > To: Kralidis, Tom; Doyon, Jean-Francois
> > Subject: Fwd: [Geowanking] Re: Canadian geocoding
> >
> > Hey guys,
> > Any pointers for this guy looking for Canadian placenames?
> >
> > Tyler
> >
> > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> >
> > Subject: [Geowanking] Re: Canadian geocoding
> > Date: November 12, 2005 07:19 am
> > From: Daniel Haran <chebuctonian at gmail.com>
> > To: geowanking at lists.burri.to
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm getting back to work on a Canadian geocoder(*).
> >