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Ben Konrath wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Paul Johnson > <baloo-PVOPTusIyP/[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?: I'm not entirely qualified to work on the border, save for the short segment I've researched out of fascination with the Hans Island dispute, and the BC/WA border (which is a nice, round 49.0°N, terrain be damned! see http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.9943&lon=-123.0634&zoom=13&layers=B000FTF) but I don't see a problem with moving back to where reality is. I'm curious if anybody has a source for accurate information as to Canada's ocean claim.
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