[Talk-ca] CanVec Reverts

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, unfortunately posting via Gmane does not seem to work (the website is down but NNTP still works), that's why I have to start a new thread. :-( Am Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:41:21 -0500 schrieb Sam Dyck: > After reading through the changeset discussion

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

On 2016-08-29 23:47:28, Gordon Dewis wrote: >> I believe it would be more important to map out park boundaries than >> actual forest limits which, quite unfortunately, change in pretty >> dramatic ways in Québec, due to massive logging that has been happening >> for decades. > > Park boundaries are

Re: [Talk-ca] What's up with those forests in Canada section

+1 a lot more detailed than what I wrote On Aug 31, 2016 10:26 PM, "Sam Dyck" wrote: > Here's my suggestion for a sort of FAQ (in wiki markup), incorporating > what James already wrote. I'm posting it here for comment because I have a > tendency to get unhelpfully passive aggressive. > > The squ

[Talk-ca] What's up with those forests in Canada section

Here's my suggestion for a sort of FAQ (in wiki markup), incorporating what James already wrote. I'm posting it here for comment because I have a tendency to get unhelpfully passive aggressive. The squared off sections of forest in Canada are the result of unfinished CanVec data import. CanVec til

Re: [Talk-ca] Qualiuty of OSM data

On 2016-08-31 06:31 PM, Adam Martin wrote: > I would also like to take a read through that document. Sounds interesting. It *may* have been this one: “Node location anomaly — Jochen Topf” but I may be misremembering. > A giant bl

[Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

On Aug 31, Daniel Bégin wrote: > On the same topic, it has been suggested to split wooded areas in smaller > chunks by using features on the ground as outer limits (mostly roads, > streams, rivers) and get rid of arbitrary rectangles from Canvec. > Is it something we are aiming at? The grid is an

Re: [Talk-ca] Qualiuty of OSM data

I would also like to take a read through that document. Sounds interesting. CANVEC has been good for the Canadian mapping efforts, but it is stale data and not highly accurate. Yet it provides us a base to work from and has the benefit of filling the map with ... something. A giant blank gap for C

Re: [Talk-ca] Qualiuty of OSM data

I've read it in the past, I do agree cavec is not 100% accurate, but in areas with absolutely nothing, it is better than a blank map: which is useless. On Aug 31, 2016 6:02 PM, "dega" wrote: Hi everybody! On 2016-08-31 Stewart C. Russell wrote: > A paper published in the last couple of years (b

[Talk-ca] Qualiuty of OSM data

Hi everybody! On 2016-08-31 Stewart C. Russell wrote: > A paper published in the last couple of years (by Anita Graser, maybe?) > showed that CanVec imports were the largest source of spurious precision > in the entire OSM database. If somebody has a link to that document, I would like to get it.

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

If anyone has anything to add: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada#What.27s_with_the_forests_in_Canada.3F On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Sam Dyck wrote: > Or even a just a section of the Wikiproject Canada page. > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:50 AM, James wrote: > >> We cou

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

Or even a just a section of the Wikiproject Canada page. On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:50 AM, James wrote: > We could add it as a subpage to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ > wiki/WikiProject_Canada seeing as it involves all of Canada and list out > why it's this way etc > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

We could add it as a subpage to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada seeing as it involves all of Canada and list out why it's this way etc On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Begin Daniel wrote: > “Whats up with the forests in Canada?” A wiki page is a good idea! > > > > And whi

[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

Hello everyone, I am back from vacation and doing my best to catch up! Things are moving fast so I will jump right into some updates: I added the project on the OSM Canada wiki page on both English and French page. I would like to add a separate page where we will document the project in detail

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

“Whats up with the forests in Canada?” A wiki page is a good idea! And while talking about forest in eastern Canada… It would be very helpful to have a plugin in JOSM that deals with Canvec water/wooded area integration in multipolygon. I am not really a developer but since the merging operati

Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada

> we need to have a "Whats up with the forests in Canada?" page on the wiki to explain our situation and how we've tried to deal with it Sounds like a plan. Cheerio John On 30 August 2016 at 22:41, Sam Dyck wrote: > After reading through the changeset discussion, I discovered that one of > my