Someone has compared Bing and Canvec data in rural areas?
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From: OSM Volunteer stevea
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 11:52:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import
Ah, good dialog ensues. Municipality by mun
Are you talking about the older CANVEC data or the data that Stats has
released which is really municipal data?
Thanks John
Begin Daniel wrote on 2019-03-28 8:31 AM:
Someone has compared Bing and Canvec data in rural areas?
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Buildings where there is no available municipal data
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From: John Whelan
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:32:32 AM
To: Begin Daniel
Cc: Talk-ca; keith hartley
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import
Are you talking about the older CANVEC data or
Why is it that FME seems to be a tool that's OK to use for OSM when someone
replied that they could use PostGIS and was shut down by someone else
replying 'I'm not installing postgesql for you to accept simplification'?
Does anyone else find it a little ironic that the community would move
forward
I agree that the use of closed software for this is not ideal, though I
think it's far from the most worrying thing about this whole process.
Perhaps that says more about the rest of the process though... I'm glad
we're at least talking about cleaning up the data now!
If anyone is interested,
The trade off is if it can be used elsewhere then there is a benefit for
using open source software however if it's only going to be used once here
and we have someone who knows the proprietary software very well the data
that ends up in OSM doesn't really care how it was produced.
This is more a
Thanks for sharing those, Nate. I like using PostGIS and I would be happy
to help the community clean geometries. Is there anyone in Calgary on the
mailing list?
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 8:20 AM john whelan wrote:
> The trade off is if it can be used elsewhere then there is a benefit for
> using
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