I would also like to take a read through that document. Sounds interesting.
CANVEC has been good for the Canadian mapping efforts, but it is stale data and not highly accurate. Yet it provides us a base to work from and has the benefit of filling the map with ... something. A giant blank gap for Canada would not be very good for the map in general and us specifically. On Aug 31, 2016 7:38 PM, "James" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've read it in the past, I do agree cavec is not 100% accurate, but in > areas with absolutely nothing, it is better than a blank map: which is > useless. > > On Aug 31, 2016 6:02 PM, "dega" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everybody! > On 2016-08-31 Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > A paper published in the last couple of years (by Anita Graser, maybe?) > > showed that CanVec imports were the largest source of spurious precision > > in the entire OSM database. > > If somebody has a link to that document, I would like to get it. > > Thanks! > > dega > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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