Alan is right. I've brought in a few tiles worth of forests from Canvec in the area you're talking about, but they were non-trivial to deal with compared to most other features. I kept running into limits in the tools I was using at the time and I haven't returned to them since.
--Gordon (Keeper of Maps) On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:19 AM, Alan Richards <alarob...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe these are the result of importing Canvec landuse data for some > areas and not for others. Because the data is in square chunks, you end up > with these unnatural looking squares on the map. Really it's just a case of > the other areas don't have detail yet. > > Across the border it looks like the US just has parks and national > forests, etc. mapped, and not the general natural=forest that you see > across Canada. > > Alan (alarobric) > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Antoine Beaupré <anar...@orangeseeds.org> > wrote: > >> hi everyone (allo tout le monde!!) >> >> one of the most frustrating experiences I have with Openstreetmap in >> Canada is this ugly forest display: >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=8/45.227/-73.916 >> >> Just compare how the forests and parks are mapped between the US and >> Canada. On our side of the border, you got huge chunks of square forests >> that definitely do not reflect the current reality, whereas down south >> you clearly see national parks, forests and no weird square things. >> >> I don't really understand how this happened, but it's been there a long >> time. I feel it's some Canvec import that went wrong, but it's been >> there for so long that it seems people just forgot about it or moved on. >> >> I looked around in the .qc and .ca wiki pages and couldn't find anything >> about it, so I figured I would bring that up here (again?). >> >> Are there any plans to fix this? How would one go around fixing this >> anyways? >> >> In particular, I'm curious to hear if people would know how to import >> *all* the park limits in Québec. It seems those are better mapped in >> Ontario, and I can't imagine those wore drawn by hand.. >> >> Thanks for any feedback (and please CC me, I'm not on the list). >> >> A. >> >> -- >> We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more >> humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. >> - John Perry Barlow, 1996 >> A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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