If anyone has anything to add: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada#What.27s_with_the_forests_in_Canada.3F
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Sam Dyck <[email protected]> wrote: > Or even a just a section of the Wikiproject Canada page. > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:50 AM, James <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 <[email protected]> >> 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:[email protected]] >>> *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 <[email protected]> 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-openstre >>> etmap-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 >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-ca mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> 外に遊びに行こう！ >> > > -- 外に遊びに行こう！
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