No sarcasm at all, why? Sorry you got that impression ☹ Daniel
From: James [mailto:james2...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 30 August, 2016 20:50 To: Begin Daniel Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap; john whelan; Adam Martin Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada Not sure if you are sarcastic or serious... but anyways, I'm glad the rest of talk-ca feels the same way(sorry for highjacking fix the forest thread even though it was kind of related) On Aug 30, 2016 8:43 PM, "Begin Daniel" <jfd...@hotmail.com<mailto:jfd...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Wow, same ideas, same concerns, provided independently... That is cool! Daniel From: Adam Martin [mailto:s.adam.mar...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 30 August, 2016 19:15 To: john whelan Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada I've contacted him as well. Here's what I sent: Good day, Nakaner I am a resident of Canada and a contributor to OSM here. Looking over your profile, you have over 5,500 edits across the OSM project, making you a skilled mapper. It has come to the attention of the Canadian OSM community recently that you have been performing work here and we appreciate that. However, it has also come to our attention that much of the work you are doing involves reverting the CANVEC data imports that we use here without consultation with the local OSM group. As you know, mapping is an involved process, especially in a country as large geographically as Canada. Our population is relatively low, which results in large expanses of land being effectively free of human involvement. Since mapping effort tend to centre around human activity, this means that large parts of Canada can go unmapped for a long time. To combat this, we have made use of the CANVEC data graciously made available by the Federal Government through the Department of Natural Resources. This information covers most of the country in its surveys. It is known to be somewhat inaccurate, but in the absence of information in a given area, it is definitely welcome. Most of the imports that you are flagging for revision have been in place for years; in some cases, even before the policy for importation was in place. I'm sure that they didn't always meet the guidelines that are now in place within the larger OSM community, but the fact remains that the information that they represent is invaluable to the Canadian portion of the map and the mappers here. If you wish to have that data become higher in quality, you are on the same side as the Canadian mapping community. We know the limitations of CANVEC and are working to allieviate them. Come join our OSM talk list and discuss your concerns with us. We are very welcoming to any points of view on the map. This allows all of us to come to a mutual understanding and solution to the problems with the imported data that you highlight. Our list is talk-ca@openstreetmap.org<mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> Thanks, Adam _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org<mailto:Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
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