On 2015-01-28 11:14 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > You should not proceed with this import. The plan description on the > wiki has several show-stopper problems.
If anyone was wondering about context, here's the plan: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yorkregion_GIS/York_Region_Data_Imports It has good links to OSM-compatible open data from York Region. My main problem with the plan — apart from likely wilful data overwriting — is that they'd clip data to districts. Like we need /more/ arbitrary boundaries to fix in Canada … > - parcels. Parcel data is contentious and problematic in > OpenStreetMap. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Parcel > Also, the commercial provincial parcels manager gets really possessive over anything cadastral, even if they didn't collect it or own it. They have money and lawyers. (Which I sometimes wish they'd direct back to addressing the quality of the data they sell …) > Do you have newer and or higher resolution aerial imagery? > Most municipalities/regions pay into group orthophoto collection, like SWOOP in SW Ontario. It's updated every six years or so. It's supplied to members at cost recovery, but the licensing is restrictive. I did ask the relevant folks back in 2013 or so if they'd release the obsolete 2006 data if I found hosting (as it was better/newer than most of the Bing/Yahoo imagery at the time), but I got a no. cheers, Stewart
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