[Talk-ca] CanVec+

[James]

I was just wondering if anyone knew that CanVec data is being phased out
and replaced by CanVec+. I spoke with Marc LeMaire from NRCan and he said
that they will not be offering .osm conversions of CanVec+ data, which
means that we will have to convert the shapefiles ourselves. My question is
has anyone begun coding/documenting CanVec+ data for conversion yet? Marc
said that they are ending CanVec by the end of the year.
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Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec+

[Adam Martin]

Hi all!



Thanks for the heads up, James. I was not personally aware of this change
until now. Reading the news release for the CanVec+ from the Geogratis site
(http://geogratis.gc.ca/site/eng/whats-new/intro-canvec). I think one of
the key statements on the website is that the Department of Natural
Resources is *transitioning* to an improved data model with the goal of
providing seamless information. New vector products will be available under
this model *eventually*. That’s all good.



However, CanVec+ *is not* that new product. It is, instead, “an interim
product for the transition”. CanVec+ is just a new way for the Department
to publish the same data. They mention that it is a model that is supposed
to allow them to frequently update the data at the best resolution. This is
good, but is not likely to be of great benefit to OSM since the areas that
would get frequent update would, most likely speaking and from a logical
standpoint, be areas of high human concentration - AKA areas that OSM user
mapping efforts are concentrated. For other areas, in James’ words, the
shapefiles would need to be manually converted.



Personally, I see little point in adopting this information in any
widespread or meaningful way. CanVec+ is essentially the same data that we
currently have. The possibility of updates to the dataset would be
relatively meaningless. Until the new data format is released, I would
recommend sitting on this matter, if my reading of that news release is
correct (I could be wrong). If a new data format is coming, that might be
useful, though caution would need to be taken to ensure that user changes
were not overridden with it.



Adam

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 3:09 PM, James  wrote:

> I was just wondering if anyone knew that CanVec data is being phased out
> and replaced by CanVec+. I spoke with Marc LeMaire from NRCan and he said
> that they will not be offering .osm conversions of CanVec+ data, which
> means that we will have to convert the shapefiles ourselves. My question is
> has anyone begun coding/documenting CanVec+ data for conversion yet? Marc
> said that they are ending CanVec by the end of the year.
>
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