Re: [Talk-ca] coastline or water polygon

2012-04-14 Thread Daniel Begin
Agreed with Paul, The new version of Canvec (release 10) is compatible with the osm coastline definition but still configured as multipolygon where the product is unaware it is the ocean . For the moment, only BC and Northern part of Nunavut is geometrically and correctly tagged. Daniel -Ori

Re: [Talk-ca] coastline or water polygon

2012-04-14 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Andrew Allison [mailto:andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 6:55 PM > To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [Talk-ca] coastline or water polygon > > Hello: > I'm removing red dots on the north coast of Nova Scotia at the > moment with canvec data. The canv

[Talk-ca] coastline or water polygon

2012-04-14 Thread Andrew Allison
Hello: I'm removing red dots on the north coast of Nova Scotia at the moment with canvec data. The canvec data has a bunch of polygons for the coastline. Is there any strong arguments which is better either natural = coastline vs polygon of water? Coastline = upda

Re: [Talk-ca] upcoming Canadian press coverage and your local group

2012-04-14 Thread Steve Roy
I'd be interested in a local Lower Mainland/Vancouver meet. On 4/13/2012 11:53 AM, Richard Weait wrote: Dear all, I expect that OSM will be getting some press coverage in the Canadian media in the near future. This is a wonderful opportunity to launch your long-anticipated local OSM group. I

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] tiff, dwg and nad83

2012-04-14 Thread Paul Norman
Cc'ing talk-ca@ on this > From: Frank Cox [mailto:thea...@melvilletheatre.com] > Subject: [Imports] tiff, dwg and nad83 > > I live in a small city that is currently just a dot or blob on the > OpenStreetMap. I discussed this matter with the guy at City Hall who is > in charge of engineering, mapp