Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries

Municipalities are creatures of the provinces, the most likely source of complete, correct municipal boundaries will be the provincial government, though each municipality will generally know theirs (and sometimes disagree with neighbours, hence the utility of using a provincial file if

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec forest redux

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Adam Martin wrote: > > You know, it suddenly strikes me that part of the reason that there is so > much trouble with the forest polygons from the Canvec data is less the > accuracy of the data and more the fact that it is brutally

Re: [Talk-ca] Forests/Land Use, was: Canvec reverts

, "Begin Daniel" <jfd...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> *P: OSM is very much an "add only" project, since the social >>> consequences of incorrectly deleting things seem so high.* >>> >>> >>> >>> What I do perceive in

Re: [Talk-ca] Forests/Land Use, was: Canvec reverts

ve to just delete the urban "land use" polygons, but who know if that's "allowed" or not. Absent a strong personality like the person who caused this thread, it seems like OSM is very much an "add only" project, since the social consequences of incorrectly deleti

[Talk-ca] Forests/Land Use, was: Canvec reverts

I'm "glad" to see someone else w/ this issue. It's glancingly related to the canvec import issue, since the land use polygons are a source of some of the issues the reverter is complaining about (malformed multipolygons / boundary overlaps). In my own work in my old home town of Prince George,

Re: [Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) < bjenk.ellef...@canada.ca> wrote: > Here is what we would invite Canadians to tell us about buildings for OSM: > > name > Address: > >- Number >- street >- city >- postal code > > A given footprint could easily encompass

Re: [Talk-ca] New project update

Hey Bjenk, When you say "define a project" are you talking about (a) describing a scope of work that StatsCan intends to resource and complete? (b) describing a scope of work that StatsCan hopes the OSM community will complete on your behalf? You've used the passive voice in describing the

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 96, Issue 1

Yeah, from the outside looking in I'm not seeing the huge surprise. I'm not a community member, but I saw the initial emails from Mojgan, and he's also talked to folks face-to-face. I didn't see an email about the wiki page, but that could be because I wasn't paying attention. What would a good

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 95, Issue 2

IMO, address points are the optimum for geocoding, since they don’t give incorrect locations as linear interpolations do, and they can provide an existence test for inputs. I hope OSM is happy to take address points! (Actually the optimum is to have both, so you can give exact answers where