[OSGeo-UK] How to use OS data? Missing OS GIS

Mike Saunt mikesaunt at astuntechnology.com
Fri Apr 15 18:44:17 EDT 2011


I agree but a potential enhance ment someone may wish to add would be to
convert each gz to a shape and then run a tileindex against the directory...


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On 15 Apr 2011 19:33, "Matt Walker" <walkermatt at longwayaround.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> If you are referring to the splitting the data from a given layer into a
> series of Shape files under 2GB then the OSMM loader doesn't do this at
> present although I don't see why this couldn't be done quite easily.
> Generally though if you are working with a large volume of data loading
into
> a spatial database like PostGIS might be more suitable and the loader can
> already load do that as it can load into any of the OGR formats (see
> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html for a list).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt.
>
> On 15 April 2011 09:45, Saber <razmjooeis at faunalia.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Matthew
>>
>> Ogr2ogr now truncates the attribute headers for shapefile when exceed 10
>> letters.
>> Cheers
>> Saber
>>
>>
>> > Guys,
>> >
>> > I know some time ago I was trying the ogr2ogr but ended up hitting a
>> brick
>> > wall in the case where SHP's dbf reached its limit. Does this tool
split
>> > the
>> > SHPs into small numbers? Since OS data is quite big, such a feature
would
>> > surely be helpful.
>> >
>> > Good job on the util ;)
>> >
>> > Matthew
>> >
>> >
>> > Matthew Pulis BSc. (Business and Computing) MSc. (Informatics)
>> > web: www.matthewpulis.info
>> > mob: +44 7866535953 / +356 79539404
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Saber Razmjooei
>> > <razmjooeis at faunalia.co.uk
>> >> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Matt
>> >>
>> >> Excellent. No, your code was clear and well-licensed :)
>> >> We will try to add MasterMap styling for qgis plus export to PostGIS
and
>> >> other ogr format in near future, which is mostly qgis stuff.
>> >>
>> >> There are already plugins for exporting/importing QGIS styling to
>> >> Mapserver .. maybe we can do it once for both Mapserver and QGIS?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers
>> >> Saber
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 21:57 +0100, Matt Walker wrote:
>> >> > Nice work Saber, just tried it with the Topographic Layer sample
from
>> >> > the OS website on our home laptop (Ubuntu 9.10, Quantum GIS 1.5.0,
>> >> > GDAL/OGR 1.7.2 all defaults from packages) and it worked a treat
:-).
>> >> > I've put a note on the project page and I'll mention it to the OS.
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there anything you need to change or would like to see improved?
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers,
>> >> >
>> >> > Matt.
>> >> >
>> >> > On 13 April 2011 13:42, Saber Razmjooei <razmjooeis at faunalia.co.uk>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> > Matt
>> >> >
>> >> > We have taken your code and ported it as QGIS plugin.
>> >> > Here is the link to the repo. At the moment it's shapefile but
>> >> > future
>> >> > changes will support other formats.
>> >> >
>> >> > http://moses.faunalia.co.uk/qgis/plugins/plugins.xml
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers
>> >> > Saber
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 09:54 +0100, Matt Walker wrote:
>> >> > > Hi Guys,
>> >> > >
>> >> > > At Astun we've been working with OS data for years with Open
>> >> > Software.
>> >> > > We've recently signed up as Developer Partners which allows
>> >> > access to
>> >> > > data for development, testing and demonstration and also
>> >> > joined the
>> >> > > Insight program which allows early access to new products.
>> >> > I'd be
>> >> > > happy to pass on details to anyone that's interested.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I agree that we should look to get the open software we know
>> >> > is
>> >> > > compatible on the list and I'm happy to find out what's
>> >> > required.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > On a related note we've recently pulled together a simple OS
>> >> > MasterMap
>> >> > > loader which is a thin Python wrapper around OGR 1.8. The
>> >> > source is
>> >> > > available at https://github.com/AstunTechnology/osmmloader.
>> >> > It's only
>> >> > > designed to load an initial supply at present but we will
>> >> > possibly
>> >> > > look at adding CoU support in future. Jo Cook has been
>> >> > working on a
>> >> > > MapServer map file to style the output which we'll put up
>> >> > with the
>> >> > > source shortly. Some highlights include: it uses ogr2ogr
>> >> > which meeans
>> >> > > that you can write to all destination formats supported by
>> >> > OGR by
>> >> > > providing ogr2ogr command line options; it reads GML or GZ
>> >> > natively
>> >> > > and it's open software :-)
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Thanks,
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Matt.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > On 6 Apr 2011 17:19, "Barry Rowlingson"
>> >> > <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>
>> >> > > wrote:
>> >> > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Joanne Cook
>> >> > > <j.cook at thehumanjourney.net> wrote:
>> >> > > >> Perhaps we should find out who to contact and offer to
>> >> > update it
>> >> > > for them?
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > There's a customer services contact:
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > "For general enquiries, complaints, feedback or
>> >> > suggestions, email:
>> >> > > > customerservices at ordnancesurvey.co.uk or call us on 08456
>> >> > 05 05 05"
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > I think we need someone to enquire for a sample of test
>> >> > data sets,
>> >> > > > and what the OS consider as 'supports' in the table. Just
>> >> > loading it
>> >> > > > without errors might not be enough.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > It might also be worth suggesting they add a GDAL/OGR row
>> >> > which
>> >> > > would
>> >> > > > cover most Open-source GIS and lots of proprietary ones
>> >> > too.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Barry
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>> >> > @_walkermatt
>> >> >
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