I've been following the conversations with interest, and find myself wondering what is the value for OSM in ingesting wholesale the public geospatial offerings of Canadian federal and regional governments? These are big organisations with full time staff and big budgets dedicated to processing and updating the data. Why should/would a handful of volunteers expend the effort in digesting this volume of data? Wouldn't it be simpler to utilise WMS services?
The usecase for ingesting roads and trails is fairly clear, people are actually adding attributes and adding and adjusting geometry to more closely match the reality they see. I don't see the same potential value adding activity for natural features like hydrology, contours, satellite imagery, etc. Am I missing something? best regards, -- matt wilkie -------------------------------------------- Geographic Information, Information Management and Technology, Yukon Department of Environment 10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9 867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003 Fax http://environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/geomatics/ -------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
