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

Sat Apr 16 05:18:00 EDT 2011

Good idea Mike. The only problem is that we cannot use a database since we
need to style the actual data for images. Although one could load it to a db
and then re-export it with some other tools - but that just increases time
etc.

is the code of osmm loader c++ or c#?

Matthew Pulis BSc. (Business and Computing) MSc. (Informatics)
web:   www.matthewpulis.info
mob:   +44 7866535953  / +356 79539404

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Mike Saunt
<mikesaunt at astuntechnology.com>wrote:

> 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...
>
>
> Sent from my mobile which isn't an iPhone
> 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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> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > --
> >> >> > Matt Walker
> >> >> > @_walkermatt
> >> >> >
> >> >>
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