Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-28 Thread Steve Singer
On Sat, 28 Sep 2019, Nate Wessel wrote: I for one would be happy to support a local effort to import high quality buildings in Toronto and/or the GTA. I think if we can actually meet up face to face our discussions may remain a bit more civil and productive. Hopefully consensus will be a bit

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-28 Thread stevea
And several years later, here we are. I'm glad to see such a "new arrival" at a place where good data can meet a good crowdsourced mapping database, and furthermore, I wish the project all good luck. SteveA California ___ Talk-ca mailing list

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-28 Thread John Whelan
My suggestion would be to amend and clean up the original import plan to split out the country into regions and have a regional coordinator for each region based on local input.  I'd also add in the two other data sources as alternative data sources. The reason for this approach is an amended

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-28 Thread John Whelan
And I totally agree.  Because the Stat Can data has come from many sources the data quality is variable to put it politely.  The Microsoft data has been shown in the US to also be of variable quality.  I'm not so sure about the NR Can LiDAR data hopefully it is at least consistent. If we look

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-28 Thread Nate Wessel
I for one would be happy to support a local effort to import high quality buildings in Toronto and/or the GTA. I think if we can actually meet up face to face our discussions may remain a bit more civil and productive. Hopefully consensus will be a bit easier to achieve with smaller groups

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-28 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
Hi all, To be a bit more positive: If we want to get buildings on the map, but we can't get Canada-wide data improved by Statcan to a standard acceptable to all mappers in Canada, IMO the best bet will be to split this into much smaller batches and support local mappers who would be interested

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-09-28 Thread Pierre Béland via Talk-ca
Je comprends que c'est la saison des tomates. Mais essayons de les utiliser pour nos conserves et non comme argument pour convaincre les autres contributeurs !  ;) Comme les autres l'ont exprimé, c'est à ceux qui proposent de faire des imports de bien documenter le processus, non l'inverse. Et