Could there be district municipality or regional district engineering/road department shapefiles or cad files floating around for some of these areas?
Dan On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 20:50 -0800, Adam Dunn wrote: > I've been looking at StatCan's GeoSearch 2006 map > [http://geodepot.statcan.ca/GeoSearch2006/GeoSearch2006.jsp?minx=4432901.48950264&miny=2238764.61686325&maxx=4434592.66597324&maxy=2239794.02862796&LastImage=http://geodepot.statcan.ca/Diss/Output/GeoSearch2006_geodepotfarm531483932432153.gif&resolution=H&lang=E&switchTab=0] > and it seems like vreimer isn't using that one as a copy. Interestingly, > Stats Can and NRN disagree with each other on some of the same points that I > noticed in vreimer's differences against NRN, but Stats Can introduces yet > another variation of errors in the Valemount area. In other words, vreimer, > Google, Bing, NRN, and Stats Can all have slightly different versions of > Valemount. Not one of those is exactly like any of the others. > > For some things that vreimer had differed from NRN, he was a match for > Stats Can, but then for some things he was different than Stats Can. > For example, the Williams Drive/Juniper/Larch area, vreimer had a > topological match to Stats Can (Williams Drive extending past Juniper, > and no Larch at all), but Stats Can calls it Williams Rd, whereas NRN > says Dr, and vreimer has Dr. > > I looked at Atlas of Canada, but didn't see a "slippy" map that shows > street names. Is there a map from Atlas of Canada that has street > names without having to download the data and open it up in some GIS > software? > > Adam > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Sam Dyck <samueld...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Found another example near Valemount, BC, where NRN has a road > called Blackman Road (east of a certain road) and Lheureux > (west of certain road). Bing has called the road Chevreux. > vreimer got it correct, meaning he's not copying Bing either. > It's all so mysterious.... > > Adam > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Sam Dyck > <samueld...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So I found a subdivision which most certainly does not > exist, and may well never exist in Google here. The > streets are not on Yahoo, Bing, OSM or NRN. The land > the streets occupy is owned by Manitoba Hydro and has > to high voltage lines that pass through it towards the > Taylor and Scotland Yard Stations and Downtown > Winnipeg (OSM) and while development is planned > nearby, I believe this land is off limits for obvious > reasons. This would suggest to me that vreimer either > lives in Winnipeg and knows Google is wrong, or > doesn't get data from Google (which previous posts > also suggested). > > Sam > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
