Ok, I did some more poking around and it seems that the land border with the US is really borked. For BC and Alberta, there are 3 - 4 different border lines with the US. I'm willing to do the work required to clean this up by deleting the lines that don't make sense. I just need to know if the Geobase information is the best one to use for the border?
Thanks, Ben On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Ben Konrath <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ben Konrath wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm interested in creating a map that contains all of Canada's territory >> > up to the border with our neighbouring countries or the ocean border. >> > The first problem that I found is that the Canadian border isn't defined >> > well in the OSM data. As an example, the border running to the South of >> > New Brunswick can't be correct: >> > >> > http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.277&lon=-65.323&zoom=9&layers=B000FTF >> > <http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.277&lon=-65.323&zoom=9&layers=B000FTF> >> >> Wow, and looking at the tags, it appears Geobase has ceded Halifax to >> State of Maine. > > So is it ok to manually fix this? I also noticed that there is a > conflict between the Geobase data and the old border data in BC. Do > you know which data is more accurate so that I can manually fix it?: > > http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.9899&lon=-123.2273&zoom=13&layers=B000FTF > > (Oh and I noticed that I can't spell ;) > > Thanks, Ben > _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
