Re: [Talk-ca] canvec imports

2018-11-27 Thread James
not sure why Canvec always gets shat uppon, their water features are great and pretty accurate, the forest/landcover on the other hand needs fixing before import. I think it's clear enough on the canvec wiki page that only experienced mappers/importers should attempt a canvec import. On Tue.,

Re: [Talk-ca] canvec imports

2018-11-27 Thread Andrew Lester
I agree. A selective import from CANVEC is fine and generally gives good results. As long as you don't import things like forests and buildings (which are both woefully out-of-date, broken, or outright wrong), there usually isn't a problem. However, if someone just imports an entire block of

[Talk-ca] Multiple university departments in one building

2018-11-27 Thread Tim Elrick
Hello, I am trying to contribute to filling the gaps on McGill campus on OSM at the moment and I ran into a problem which I haven't fund a satisfactory answer for yet. We have several buildings on campus which are home to multiple departments, all buildings have a building name. I looked