> we need to have a "Whats up with the forests in Canada?" page on the wiki to explain our situation and how we've tried to deal with it
Sounds like a plan. Cheerio John On 30 August 2016 at 22:41, Sam Dyck <samueld...@gmail.com> wrote: > After reading through the changeset discussion, I discovered that one of > my imports in Northern Manitoba made Worst of OSM. ( > http://worstofosm.tumblr.com/post/22180046353/dear- > openstreetmap-isnt-it-strange-how-the). As someone who spends a some time > amount of time in some of relatively unpopulated areas of Canada and makes > an effort to check the quality of Canvec data (which is usually pretty > good), I do agree that it is impossible to do everything to the same level > of quality that we would provide in Toronto or Timmins or even small > prairie towns. > > One of the things that seems to bother Nakaner and the WoO people (if I > may put words in their mouths) is that the boundaries are a bit funky in > Canvec. Forests, lakes and wetlands spill into each other, and they are > often out of alignment with the Bing imagery. In some ways this reflects a > degree of natural ambiguity: if we look at the above Hudson's bay > coastline, their is hourly variation in coastlines, and even the long term > patterns change over time. The Manitoba-Nunavut boundary is more or less > fixed by so we can't correct it, and a glance at satellite imagery shows > that the vegetation tends to be spaced off of the shoreline. > > That being said sometimes there is some weird stuff happening in Canvec > data that is out of sync with what is on the ground. These should be > corrected when detected, but are rare enough that they shouldn't be a > problem. I confess I haven't always been great in following the rules when > doing imports (I think the last few years I've been fully in compliance), > and have sometimes caused problems, people on this list have generally > understanding. Perhaps we need to have a "Whats up with the forests in > Canada?" page on the wiki to explain our situation and how we've tried to > deal with it. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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