Ah, good dialog ensues. Municipality by municipality, in conjunction with BOTH the StatsCan and Bing data, the right things are getting noticed, the right things are getting human-realized at what the next steps are to do. It gets better.
Yay. Stitch it together. One municipality at a time. One province at a time. Pretty soon, after a few revisions of data and back-and-forths between municipalities and province-wide data checking, you've got something. There, you go. SteveA > On Mar 27, 2019, at 8:23 PM, keith hartley <keith.a.hart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The patchwork of municipalities is at least useful, before we didn't have a > framework for adding this data, but at least we do now thanks to the umbrella > license @ Stats Canada. We're a big country with very few, but very skilled > OSM mappers (IE gecho111 mapped all of regina's building footprints! ). > > I like the concept of the Bing data, but they may have to do another few > tries, or maybe retain their Neural network. - Is there anywhere where the > Bing data looks nice? I found burbs in Winnipeg not bad, but there's some > really weird elements when the source data is too simple (buildings in the > middle of fields) or too complex (urban cores) > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 6:29 AM John Whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Stats Canada data comes from the municipalities. Unfortunately there are > over 3,000 in Canada so yes ideally each would be treated separately in > reality each municipality doesn't have a group of skilled OSM mappers who are > capable of setting up an import plan and doing the work although there is > nothing to stop them doing so. > > Cheerio John _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
