Yeah I have to run JOSM in 64 bit mode via the jnlp to manage such massive
data amounts as the 32bit is slower and is limited about 1.4-1.6GB on
windows and 2GB on linux because of how the heap works.

P.s. if someone feels up to it we could always map trees as node=tree

On Aug 29, 2016 11:49 PM, "Gordon Dewis" <gor...@pinetree.org> wrote:

>
> On Aug 29, 2016, at 11:12 PM, Antoine Beaupré <anar...@orangeseeds.org>
> wrote:
>
> On 2016-08-25 10:13:25, Gordon Dewis wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> Yeah, that's what I figured.... I hope my comment didn't come across as
> criticizing the work that was done importing that data into OSM - I know
> how challenging and frustrating that work can be.
>
> But I must admit it seems a little rough to have those patches up
> there. I don't mind the "seams" between the CANVEC imported blocks,
> which don't seem to show up on the main map anymore anyways. But
> the *missing* blocks are really problematic and confusing. And they show
> up not only all the way up north and in weird places, but in critical
> areas. for example, here's a blank spot right north of Canada's capital:
>
> http://osm.org/go/cIhYCSU-?m=
>
> It seems a whole area was just not imported up there... oops! This shows
> up here and there in seemingly random places.
>
>
> Whoever was working on it was probably struggling with the tiles and
> subtitles in Canvec and threw in the towel. I was working on the forests
> around Golden Lake, for example, and ran into problems and limitations with
> the tools I was using at the time. I would love to import more, but it’s a
> daunting task.
>
> Another problem I noticed is when trying to merge “new” forests with
> existing forests was the existing forests would disappear because the
> topology changed, similar to problems you can see with lakes and islands.
> That alone was enough to make me back off and undo the inadvertent damage.
>
> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to remove parts of the CANVEC import
> until we can figure out how to better import them in the future, if, of
> course, we have a documented way of restoring the state of affairs we
> have now... As was mentionned elsewhere, it seems to me that the data
> that is there now somewhat makes it more difficult to go forward and
> hides more important data (like park boundaries).
>
>
> Unless the parts of Canvec are going to be replaced with more
> comprehensive coverage, I think that removing the existing forests would
> not be a Good Thing.
>
> I believe it would be more important to map out park boundaries than
> actual forest limits which, quite unfortunately, change in pretty
> dramatic ways in Québec, due to massive logging that has been happening
> for decades.
>
>
> Park boundaries are mostly in already, aren’t they? They are fairly easy
> features to import compared to forests.
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