On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 14:03 -0700, Clifford Snow wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Maury Markowitz > <maury.markow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Newb here, so I hope this is the right place to ask. I also > posted on one of the wiki talk pages, but I didn't know if > anyone goes there. > > I have noticed that vectors imported from the CanVec database > are split at grid boundaries. This means that large objects > like roads or lakes are split into multiple parts in OSM. > > I strongly suspect that there is a way to re-integrate these > into single objects, which would greatly improve things (case > in point, the cottage would no longer be on a three-part > lake :-) > For me personally, it's all by hand. download an area and start joining
> As this data is automatically imported, is this the right > place to discuss this? I wouldn't say any import I'm doing is automated. 1 Load canvec data 2 delete roads from canvec 3 download map and merge 4 Wait for a message from someone when I mess up :-) 5 and repeat > > > Roads I can understand. Breaking roads into manageable segments makes > sense. But lakes? Can you give a link to the three part lake? > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.23&lon=-79.638&zoom=11&layers=M Next to North Bay is multi part lake, I'm afraid to touch it see point 4 Andrew aka PurpleMustang, CanvecImports
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