[Talk-ca] Why import all of Geobase/Canvec?

I've been following the conversations with interest, and find myself wondering what is the value for OSM in ingesting wholesale the public geospatial offerings of Canadian federal and regional governments? These are big organisations with full time staff and big budgets dedicated to processing

Re: [Talk-ca] Why import all of Geobase/Canvec?

On 12/11/08, Matt Wilkie matt.wil...@gov.yk.ca wrote: I've been following the conversations with interest, and find myself wondering what is the value for OSM in ingesting wholesale the public geospatial offerings of Canadian federal and regional governments? These are big organisations with

Re: [Talk-ca] Why import all of Geobase/Canvec?

Elevation contours can be of real interest, I gather some bicycle groups in Germany have used elevation data in OSM for things like planning tour routes (not only do bicycle rides want limits on distance/day they also want limits on sudden changes in elevation (no steep hills)). It's

Re: [Talk-ca] Why import all of Geobase/Canvec?

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Colin McGregor colin.mc...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/11/08, Matt Wilkie matt.wil...@gov.yk.ca wrote: I've been following the conversations with interest, and find myself wondering what is the value for OSM in ingesting wholesale the public geospatial offerings of

Re: [Talk-ca] Why import all of Geobase/Canvec?

I like that choice of features that should be imported into OSM. They're standard for pretty much any road map that people use, besides the hydrology network, but web maps like Google have rivers creeks without making it look messy so we could get away with it. The water features will