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<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi folks,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Since last year I have been working with the Canadian Osm community to have the entire Canadian 50K map content (Canvec product) available in .osm format.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"></SPAN><A HREF="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec"><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The product is now available and is being uploaded in osm database by the Canadian community ...</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.354&lon=-79.343&zoom=9&layers=M"><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.354&lon=-79.343&zoom=9&layers=M</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.1841&lon=-66.4949&zoom=12&layers=M"><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.1841&lon=-66.4949&zoom=12&layers=M</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The intermittent water tagging schema used was this one </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_cover"><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_cover</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">It was chosen with the community, mainly because it was very similar to the original data schema (Canvec product) but also because the wiki pages were saying that the proposal was still at Draft stage (not deprecate).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Can we still have discussion about that and have it approved - even if it is a bit late ?-)</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Regards,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Daniel</FONT></SPAN>
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