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2020-07-07 Thread James
If it becomes over 2000 nodes in a single "way" or shape, it's recommended to make it a multipolygon. The reason NRCan does this is probably because it's on the edge of what they call "NTS Tiles" which is a grid that organizes the data (see forests in Canada

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2020-07-06 Thread Hannes Röst
Hello I am a contributor from Toronto and I have a question regarding how to treat some of the CanVec 6.0 - NRCan imports, specifically for lakes. I came across this lake here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/69275451 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/69277932

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2019-01-19 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
On Jan 19, 2019, at 10:48 AM, john whelan wrote: > There was an earlier discussion on talk-ca about how to handle this project. There were MANY. Speaking for myself only, I urged a very cautious, go-slow approach, to edit the data into "improvement / harmony-with-OSM" as much as possible

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2019-01-19 Thread john whelan
There was an earlier discussion on talk-ca about how to handle this project. It is similar to CANVEC in the original data sources are municipal data CANVEC uses a few other sources as well and it is released under exactly the same license but by a different federal government department. There

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2014-11-19 Thread Ga Delap
Plusieurs (et j'en suis) ont exprimé leur désir d'avoir une meilleure couverture de forêt sur la carte OSM. Ces zones de forêt sont venues avec les importations CanVec mais ne progressent plus depuis un certain temps. Le présent article propose une façon de réaliser la forêt sans utiliser les abus

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2012-12-19 Thread Pierre Béland
Sur le blog de la Fondation OSM, on remerciait hier la dynamique association de Pau, dans les Pyrénées françaises pour l'installation d'un serveur de tuiles OSM. Ce serveur est devenue officiellement hier un serveur de cache de tuiles d'OpenStreetMap couvrant la France , l'Espagne, le Portugal,

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2012-10-19 Thread Clément Le Quintrec
Could you please unsubscribe me? Thank you! -- Clément Le Quintrec | (514) 692 8341 | ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

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2012-09-17 Thread Clifford Snow
I'm doing some work in the Washington State and noticed some problems along the border between BC and Washington State. I asked for help on the talk-us mailing list. I originally though the border was incorrect. However, because the border doesn't track exactly along the 49th parallel there

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2012-02-23 Thread Sam Dyck
Pierre I beg to differ, the OSM wiki states The place=locality tag can be used to name unpopulated place which is not associated with any feature to which such a tag could be associated. By default many small or unpopulated places are tagged as localities in canvec. When I preformed the upload

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2012-02-23 Thread Gordon Dewis
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Sam Dyck samueld...@gmail.com wrote: I beg to differ, the OSM wiki states The place=locality tag can be used to name unpopulated place which is not associated with any feature to which such a tag could be associated. By default many small or unpopulated

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2012-02-23 Thread Sam Dyck
Actually both of the highway locations I cited are not from any database, but reflect the local names for the intersection. On 2/23/12, Gordon Dewis gor...@pinetree.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Sam Dyck samueld...@gmail.com wrote: I beg to differ, the OSM wiki states The

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2012-02-23 Thread William Rieck
Confusion Corner reminded me of The Basketweave on the 401 in Toronto. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.71829lon=-79.50048zoom=17layers=M Here a mapper has tagged the node as an attraction. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Sam Dyck samueld...@gmail.com wrote: Actually both of the highway

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2009-01-29 Thread Moreau , Jean-Sébastien
Sent: January 26, 2009 6:42 PM To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] (no subject) Hi What's with the Geobase import of Lorette, MB? The roads are tagged as admin. boundries. hr emPlease avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word