Daniel, Sam, It is available in .shp format (and another one that I can't recall).
I had one response already, they will be discussing it internally. It's primarly a license issue, not a format issue. I'll keep you posted! Thanks, Olivier On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Bégin, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote: > I would agree with Olivier, > > Non-GeoBase themes have not been updated in southern Canada for 20 years - > with few exceptions > > Daniel > > -----Original Message----- > From: Olivier Hill [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: February 3, 2011 08:41 > To: Richard Weait > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping of wetlands in Montreal > > Richard, > > I can tell you right now that the Ducks Illimited Data is *WAY* more recent. > > They have used special 3D techniques to identify small areas that were not > known before to be wetlands. > > They can also better classify. For example, CanVec has lakes beside my home, > they don't exist, it's more likely to be small wet saturated soil. > > Best, > Olivier > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Olivier Hill <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> FYI I have contacted them to see whether we could have access to that >>> data and permission to import on OSM. >>> >>> English: >>> http://www.ducks.ca/aboutduc/news/archives/prov2011/110131.html >>> French: >>> http://www.ducks.ca/fr/apropos/nouvelles/archives/prov2011/110131.htm >>> l >>> >>> Great collection of wetlands in the Montreal CMM. >>> >>> It's not clear whether it's public data or not, we will see... >>> >>> Great way to save wetlands if we are aware of them when looking at our map. >> >> There is a canvec data theme for saturated soils that likely includes >> this information. It would be interesting to see which source is more >> up to date. >> > > > > -- > http://www.olivierhill.ca/ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > -- http://www.olivierhill.ca/ _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
