Mapping lakes and forest in ontario/quebec feels like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmvLexamrmk
On Aug 26, 2016 6:12 PM, "Gordon Dewis" <gor...@pinetree.org> wrote: > 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> 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 >> >> 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 >> 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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