Many years ago I met one of the people behind the first Digital Chart of the World and he said that they had to create a feature type called “many little lakes” (or something like that) to represent areas in the northern parts of Quebec and Ontario because all the tiny lakes were outnumbering all the other water bodies in the world.
And, yeah, there are all sorts of places where the landuse, water and forests don’t match. Trying to fix that will drive you to drink. —G > On Aug 26, 2016, at 5:49 PM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As gordon said, merging them would be a donting task, especially the more > north you go. Also if you do make a massive forest by merging them all we'll > have fun trying to find the relation that defines that forest, because if you > download data in the middle of the relation with out hitting one of it's > children it doesn't show up in JOSM > > On Aug 26, 2016 5:41 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scr...@gmail.com > <mailto:scr...@gmail.com>> wrote: > On 2016-08-25 02:07 PM, Gordon Dewis wrote: > > > > There is value to having them in OSM, we just have to find a better way > > to do them, or live with "seams" at the edges of Canvec tiles. > > But if they'll (all?) have to be redone once we work out a better way of > doing forests, aren't the existing tile imports a liability? They make > any future repair much more difficult. > > There are also many instances where the landuse polygon doesn't clip to > the water body correctly, like this: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/263860160#map=16/46.8979/-82.5383 > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/263860160#map=16/46.8979/-82.5383> > > I don't think there's much import activity going on with the CanVec > data. Last edits from the typical importers was over a year ago. > > cheers, > Stewart > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > <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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