Or even a just a section of the Wikiproject Canada page. On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:50 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We could add it as a subpage to: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ > wiki/WikiProject_Canada seeing as it involves all of Canada and list out > why it's this way etc > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Begin Daniel <jfd...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> “Whats up with the forests in Canada?” A wiki page is a good idea! >> >> >> >> And while talking about forest in eastern Canada… >> >> >> >> It would be very helpful to have a plugin in JOSM that deals with Canvec >> water/wooded area integration in multipolygon. I am not really a developer >> but since the merging operations are repeated over and over again over >> large areas... might it be possible to do something? >> >> >> >> On the same topic, it has been suggested to split wooded areas in smaller >> chunks by using features on the ground as outer limits (mostly roads, >> streams, rivers) and get rid of arbitrary rectangles from Canvec. Is it >> something we are aiming at? >> >> >> >> Daniel >> >> >> >> *From:* john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, 31 August, 2016 07:00 >> *To:* Sam Dyck >> *Cc:* Talk-CA OpenStreetMap >> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] broken forests in eastern Canada >> >> >> >> > we need to have a "Whats up with the forests in Canada?" page on the >> wiki to explain our situation and how we've tried to deal with it >> >> Sounds like a plan. >> >> Cheerio John >> >> >> >> On 30 August 2016 at 22:41, Sam Dyck <samueld...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> After reading through the changeset discussion, I discovered that one of >> my imports in Northern Manitoba made Worst of OSM. ( >> http://worstofosm.tumblr.com/post/22180046353/dear-openstre >> etmap-isnt-it-strange-how-the). As someone who spends a some time amount >> of time in some of relatively unpopulated areas of Canada and makes an >> effort to check the quality of Canvec data (which is usually pretty good), >> I do agree that it is impossible to do everything to the same level of >> quality that we would provide in Toronto or Timmins or even small prairie >> towns. >> >> One of the things that seems to bother Nakaner and the WoO people (if I >> may put words in their mouths) is that the boundaries are a bit funky in >> Canvec. Forests, lakes and wetlands spill into each other, and they are >> often out of alignment with the Bing imagery. In some ways this reflects a >> degree of natural ambiguity: if we look at the above Hudson's bay >> coastline, their is hourly variation in coastlines, and even the long term >> patterns change over time. The Manitoba-Nunavut boundary is more or less >> fixed by so we can't correct it, and a glance at satellite imagery shows >> that the vegetation tends to be spaced off of the shoreline. >> >> That being said sometimes there is some weird stuff happening in Canvec >> data that is out of sync with what is on the ground. These should be >> corrected when detected, but are rare enough that they shouldn't be a >> problem. I confess I haven't always been great in following the rules when >> doing imports (I think the last few years I've been fully in compliance), >> and have sometimes caused problems, people on this list have generally >> understanding. Perhaps we need to have a "Whats up with the forests in >> Canada?" page on the wiki to explain our situation and how we've tried to >> deal with it. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > > > -- > 外に遊びに行こう！ >
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