{"id":3121,"date":"2007-05-08T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T20:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/my-neighbourhood-according-to-canvec\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T16:16:22","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T20:16:22","slug":"my-neighbourhood-according-to-canvec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/my-neighbourhood-according-to-canvec\/","title":{"rendered":"my neighbourhood, according to CanVec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/perhaps_neighbourhood.png\" alt=\"my neighbourhood, according to CanVec and QGIS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Canada has recently released most of its geodata for free &#8211; <em>Go Canada!<\/em> I was particularly interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cits.rncan.gc.ca\/cit\/servlet\/CIT\/site_id=01&amp;page_id=1-008-001-001.html\">CanVec<\/a>, the large vector topographical set. I downloaded the set for Toronto and environs, and slapped it into <a href=\"http:\/\/qgis.org\/\">QGIS<\/a>. With nearly all the layers on, my neighbourhood looks like the above.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t find any labels, or much in the way of documentation for this huge data set. It would be a shame if good metadata weren&#8217;t available, for it adds real utility to the map data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has recently released most of its geodata for free &#8211; Go Canada! I was particularly interested in CanVec, the large vector topographical set. I downloaded the set for Toronto and environs, and slapped it into QGIS. With nearly all the layers on, my neighbourhood looks like the above. I didn&#8217;t find any labels, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[508,510,509,43],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-canvec","tag-free","tag-gis","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Ol","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}