Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries

2017-03-07 Thread kevinfarrugia
Sorry JP, just talking from my experience in Ontario where they generally (at least in Southern Ontario) follow legal boundaries.  In the end, whoever does it will need to have knowledge of the area and how boundaries work in that province/locality, but boundaries are definitely important for ge

Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries

2017-03-07 Thread kevinfarrugia
Hey Stewart, CSDs are legal boundaries - I.e. the legal boundary of a lower tier municipality. CSD = city/town/township Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: "Stewart C. Russell" Date: 2017-03-07 1:05 PM (GMT-05:00) To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subje

Re: [Talk-ca] Target Canada

2015-03-25 Thread kevinfarrugia
I've added 2 in Mississauga. My method used food inspection data (under open license of course! ) to get the locations since most Targets have Starbucks or grocery‎ items that would need inspection.  --- Kevin F Kevo   Original Message   From: Tom Taylor Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 1:38 PM T

Re: [Talk-ca] A Question for you

2009-01-08 Thread kevinfarrugia
Why is canvec still being brought up? There is no point in using it for OSM since is restrained to sheets rather than provincial boundaries and isn't updated as often or at regular intervals. They may all be portals to NRcan data but as someone said earlier we're best off with the data from the