[Talk-ca] Internal CanVec conflicts

2012-11-12 Thread Brian Gamberg
I ran into many of the same issues when I started importing Canvec data for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. But, in my case, the arguments I had were with myself. When I started, most of the province was a blank slate with only the (PGS) coastline in the OSM database. There

Re: [Talk-ca] Internal CanVec conflicts

2012-11-12 Thread Brian Gamberg
On Monday, November 12, 2012 4:36 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: From: Brian Gamberg [bgamb...@nf.sympatico.ca] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 11:01 AM To: Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] Internal CanVec conflicts The compromise that I arrived at was to

[Talk-ca] BC Resource Roads

2012-11-12 Thread Paul Norman
I was importing some CanVec in northern BC and came across a resource road on bing, which I also added, but I realized I wasn't positive on the best tagging. A typical example is http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=59.395lon=-122.074zoom=16 These roads exist for forestry and oil and gas use. In

[Talk-ca] New Subdivisions

2012-11-12 Thread Steve Roy
What is the best was of adding a new subdivision like this one east of Kelowna? I've only used Potlatch. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.873809814453125lon=-119.35237884521484zoom=15 Thanks Steve ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] New Subdivisions

2012-11-12 Thread Paul Norman
From: Steve Roy [mailto:st...@ssni.ca] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 2:58 PM To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] New Subdivisions What is the best was of adding a new subdivision like this one east of Kelowna? I've only used Potlatch.

[Talk-ca] CanVec bug - splitting of long riverbank ways?

2012-11-12 Thread Paul Norman
I appear to of found a CanVec 10 bug in 094P13.0.osm There is a waterway=riverbank way (Dilly Creek) that is split in two at 59.7728641, -121.9806992. One way is 2k nodes, the other is 457 nodes. Ideally this would be split in two to form two separate areas. An alternate solution would be to not

Re: [Talk-ca] BC Resource Roads

2012-11-12 Thread Brian Gamberg
In Newfoundland, they're called resource roads, and while they are maintained in the summer, they are not plowed in the winter. So, in the winter they are only used as skidoo or ATV trails. How about proposing a new tag like highway=resource-road ? Incidentally, geofabrik's OSM inspector