Hello, I am fairly new to open street maps and am interested in a Skype/Zoom call to discuss the basics, and/or answers to some questions that will help me make some shoreline refinements and address some terrain description issues. I am working in Victoria BC, Canada but these questions are about general mapping principles.
1. Several different feature and administrative borders converge on the shoreline, so it is difficult to see the reference aerial photography so I can make changes to the shore line. Is it possible to temporarily hide some features, or reduce the intrusion of the other borders while doing this work? I was thinking I could move the administrative boundaries off shore a short distance but not sure of the protocol around this. Is the some imported shoreline data set that defines the shore, or is this all done manually? I don’t want to be making changes then have it revert if someone else downloads Shoreline data set. 2. Just south of Shawnigan Lake there is a long arbitrary east west feature border that delineates forest to the north, but does not align with actual features or administrative boundaries. I’m wanting to modify that forest area to indicate an area recently cleared for residential development and a forest block within that, and to map general forested areas south of that Not sure of the best strategy. 3. There are some common terrain features, some of which are in the international library but not on the library accessible to me...or at least, I can’t find them. How do I import or activate these features so I can apply them to local terrain. E.g storm water outfall, lake, pond, creek, beach access, undeveloped road right of way... Thanks. ---Dan Doherty d1dohe...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
