We could add it as a subpage to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada seeing as it involves all of Canada and list out why it's this way etc
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Begin Daniel <jfd...@hotmail.com> wrote: > “Whats up with the forests in Canada?” A wiki page is a good idea! > > > > And while talking about forest in eastern Canada… > > > > It would be very helpful to have a plugin in JOSM that deals with Canvec > water/wooded area integration in multipolygon. I am not really a developer > but since the merging operations are repeated over and over again over > large areas... might it be possible to do something? > > > > On the same topic, it has been suggested to split wooded areas in smaller > chunks by using features on the ground as outer limits (mostly roads, > streams, rivers) and get rid of arbitrary rectangles from Canvec. Is it > something we are aiming at? > > > > Daniel > > > > *From:* john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, 31 August, 2016 07:00 > *To:* Sam Dyck > *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap > *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada > > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > -- 外に遊びに行こう!
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