Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec natural=land tags and untagged ways

2011-05-18 Thread Samuel Longiaru
OK Daniel... thank you for the information and the reasoning behind it. It seems that at least in the areas I've been importing, all is working correctly in regards to the islands and wood, even the wooded islands without the use of the natural=land tags. This area also renders correctly on my G

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec natural=land tags and untagged ways

2011-05-18 Thread Samuel Longiaru
Adam is correct here in that the natural=land tags I was talking about are on single nodes on islands in lakes. All have had a way surrounding them tagged as inner. None of the nodes that I have come across and deleted have had a name tag attached and so didn't seem to be serving any purpose. Th

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec natural=land tags and untagged ways

2011-05-18 Thread Adam Dunn
The natural=island tag that Daniel is referring to used to be applied to the way of the island. This is the old way of doing things (pre-Canvec 7). I think the natural=land tag that Samuel is referring to is a single node at the centre of the island (Canvec 7). The natural=land node is there for t

[Talk-ca] Off-topic: general Canvec issues

2011-05-18 Thread Brent Fraser
Daniel, While this is not directly related to OpenStreetMap, I'm posting this here since the OSM community seems to be the most active set of public users of Canvec data. The goal of this post is to improve Canvec (and therefore hopefully improve OSM). As a method of testing the latest

Re: [Talk-ca] CanVec natural=land tags and untagged ways

2011-05-18 Thread Bégin , Daniel
Hi Samuel, about a year ago, I removed natural=island ways from the Canvec data. Unless I'm confused (it appends sometime !-) it was applied for Release 7... The problem was that islands were/are overlaying all other features on rendering, including corresponding natural=wood features (ie : w

[Talk-ca] CanVec natural=land tags and untagged ways

2011-05-18 Thread Samuel Longiaru
Good morning everyone, I've been working for the last couple of months importing Canvec data into south-central BC and have almost completed the eastern half of 92I. I also have been lurking on the MkGMap list and one of the comments there today got me thinking that maybe I've been doing something