Re: [Talk-ca] Hydro Network (inland water) question

2018-10-02 Thread Peter R
Thank you for the explanation. All of the areas I'm referring to are very remote, I agree. I'm glad to finally know some of the backstory to this long and arduous process. I'd like to thank all of the mappers here who put their time and effort into improving OSM, especially in Canada. Your efforts

Re: [Talk-ca] Hydro Network (inland water) question

2018-09-27 Thread john whelan
The federal government's open data license has been formally approved by the legal working group. Steve in California appears to be volunteering to do some mapping. I have no doubt the flack from Europe will start up again but it is an ongoing import that the Canadian local community has been

Re: [Talk-ca] Hydro Network (inland water) question

2018-09-27 Thread Viajero Perdido
On 2018-09-27 05:42 PM, talk-ca-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: What happened during the import of inland water data? Maybe people realized the poor quality of the data, and found positive ways to contribute instead? Throw in flack from Germany ...and Canada! Waterways change in thirty

Re: [Talk-ca] Hydro Network (inland water) question

2018-09-27 Thread Andrew
Does any body know what the current status / feeling is about doing Canvec Imports? I had received less then favorable feed back last time I was doing imports? (From across the pond mostly) Andrew aka Canvec Imports On Thu, 2018-09-27 at 16:55 -0700, OSM Volunteer

Re: [Talk-ca] Hydro Network (inland water) question

2018-09-27 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
Heck, all kinds of things are fun to map: bike routes, railways, making sure provincial and TransCanada route relations are all lined up and tagged correctly, bus and public_transport, small details (micro-mapping), like gymnasium/library details and drinking fountain locations in

Re: [Talk-ca] Hydro Network (inland water) question

2018-09-27 Thread John Marshall
+1 James I try to add a few hundred square kms every week. But as James said Canada is really big. John On Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 19:39 James, wrote: > because we have over 2 million lakes and rivers and we are a couple > hundred dedicated mappers that have the skill set to fix and import Canvec

Re: [Talk-ca] Hydro Network (inland water) question

2018-09-27 Thread john whelan
If you're Canadian then you are probably aware that the NRCAN Geobase data is collected from various sources including provincial some are more accurate than others some data is probably thirty or more years old. Canada is very large and we have a lot of water. We don't have the same number of

Re: [Talk-ca] Hydro Network (inland water) question

2018-09-27 Thread James
because we have over 2 million lakes and rivers and we are a couple hundred dedicated mappers that have the skill set to fix and import Canvec dataand not everyone prioritizes lakes and rivers in remote areas. On Thu., Sep. 27, 2018, 7:26 p.m. Peter R, wrote: > Hi Canada Import Team, > I'd

[Talk-ca] Hydro Network (inland water) question

2018-09-27 Thread Peter R
Hi Canada Import Team, I'd like to ask a question that I've been curious about for a few years now. What happened during the import of inland water data? Throughout Canada, I find instances where tiles are missing water data. This results in lakes and other water polygons being abruptly cut off.