Re: [Talk-ca] Business Improvement Area tagging

2019-01-11 Thread Corey Burger
Here in BC they are set by municipal bylaw and renewed every 5 years. Very much stable enough to map in OSM. Corey On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 2:27 PM Bernie Connors wrote: > I can confirm the BIA boundaries are modified very infrequently in New > Brunswick. I am not aware of any changes during

Re: [Talk-ca] Business Improvement Area tagging

2019-01-11 Thread Bernie Connors
I can confirm the BIA boundaries are modified very infrequently in New Brunswick. I am not aware of any changes during the 10 years in my current job disseminating GIS data for for the province. Bernie. On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 2:45 PM Matthew Darwin Hi Harald, > > Thanks for your thoughts on

Re: [Talk-ca] Business Improvement Area tagging

2019-01-09 Thread Harald Kliems
To me this is a clear case of something that doesn't belong in OSM. It sounds like the boundaries aren't verifiable on the ground and may change frequently. Therefore any data in OSM would go stale quickly and the only verification of accuracy would be to go back to the source. Yes, we have

Re: [Talk-ca] Business Improvement Area tagging

2019-01-09 Thread Bernie Connors
Matthew, Here in NB we also have the very same concept of Business Improvement Areas (BIA). The BIA boundaries can be downloaded from the GeoNB Data Catalogue. Bernie. On Mon, Jan 7, 2019, 8:32 PM Matthew Darwin Hello all, > > I'm not sure if this applies to other provinces or not, so I

[Talk-ca] Business Improvement Area tagging

2019-01-07 Thread Matthew Darwin
Hello all, I'm not sure if this applies to other provinces or not, so I thought I would ask here. In Ontario there is a concept of "Business Improvement Area" ("BIA" for short) that has the power to tax businesses within their zoneĀ  (see http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page1529.aspx for details).