Re: [Talk-ca] Beginner questions

2012-04-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: Is this the right place to ask beginner questions? [ ... ] Sure! As some of you already know, I have decided to make an effort to get my town (Melville, Saskatchewan) on the map.  I have made a start, playing with

Re: [Talk-ca] Beginner questions

2012-04-16 Thread Andrew Lester
Looking at the history of the objects, it looks like another mapper used Bing to map out the road network on Apr 14th, then you added CANVEC data on top of this on the 15th, so nearly everything is now duplicated. Question: Did you download the existing data for the town when you made your edits,

Re: [Talk-ca] Beginner questions

2012-04-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:33:01 -0700 Andrew Lester wrote: Looking at the history of the objects, it looks like another mapper used Bing to map out the road network on Apr 14th, then you added CANVEC data on top of this on the 15th, so nearly everything is now duplicated. Question: Did you

Re: [Talk-ca] Beginner questions

2012-04-16 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:45:22 -0400 Richard Weait wrote: First, with regard to street classification.  I see, among others, highway-tertiary, highway-unclassified and highway-residential. unclassified and residential are the same thing, except residential is for residential areas.

Re: [Talk-ca] Beginner questions

2012-04-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: [ ... ] It occurs to me that I may have been doing this wrong, and if so now would be the time to find out about it. The Coop grocery store, for example, is laid out as a building on a large lot, the unoccupied