<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Hi all,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">I just saw that user Benni posted this page on this website, I found it because I use Google Reader, which now has a translate button :) ... So hopefully this passes the language barrier. .. almost (doesn't totally) but makes it closer.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">I'll try to get in touch with the user, to thank them. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;"><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">FYI,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Cheers,</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Sam Vekemans</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Across Canada Trails</span></div>
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<br></div><div style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; "><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()">Canada imported OpenStreetMap</span></div></td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><small>From: Benni on 21.11.2008 14:29</small></span></td>
</tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><hr></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><i>OpenStreetMap import the complete Spatial Canada ...</i></span> <br><br><img src="http://209.85.171.104/pictures/news/1365.jpeg" alt="" style="float: right; margin-left: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 3px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; ">
<span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()">Through the cooperation of the</span> <img src="https://www.pocketnavigation.de/pictures/icons/pfeil9x12_navigation.gif" alt="" width="12" height="9"> <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><a href="http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.openstreetmap.org/&usg=ALkJrhgo3MGWsoNWGAdYkflAOoKJG-dESg" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(12, 65, 151); ">OpenStreetMap</a>Foundation and the Initiative</span> <img src="https://www.pocketnavigation.de/pictures/icons/pfeil9x12_navigation.gif" alt="" width="12" height="9"> <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><a href="http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.geobase.ca/&usg=ALkJrhgV1pgOWK3I9t-p8SdVuoclKiu8KQ" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(12, 65, 151); ">GeoBase.ca</a> growing <strong>OSM</strong>free <strong>world map</strong> in one fell swoop to <strong>complete</strong> geodata<strong>Canada.</strong></span> <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()">The donation of the second largest country on earth is the biggest single donation to the data OpenStreetMap project.</span> <br>
<br><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()">GeoBase is an initiative <strong>of</strong> all government <strong>authorities</strong> in Canada.</span> <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()">It will be supervised by</span> <img src="https://www.pocketnavigation.de/pictures/icons/pfeil9x12_navigation.gif" alt="" width="12" height="9"> <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><a href="http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/about/organization.html%3Bjsessionid%3DC9B740AAC17F5CC3FD99826EA4628B77&usg=ALkJrhjvbMmw6Ghn21IWtkUj31k73dMEdw#ccog" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(12, 65, 151); ">Canadian Council on Geomatics</a> (CCOG).</span> <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()">Their task is to collect and provide a common, timely and well-maintained base of quality<strong>spatial data</strong> for Canada.</span> <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()">The GeoBase record contains, inter alia, <strong>the</strong> entire <strong>national road network, waterways, coastlines,</strong> boundaries of administrative units <strong>and</strong> altitude <strong>information.</strong></span> <br>
<br><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()">The import is, as with previous data imports from the United States and the Netherlands, from the OpenStreetMap community <strong>itself.</strong></span> <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()">Will begin <strong>with</strong> pilot <strong>areas</strong> to share experiences with the construction of the data and the conflict with existing data to collect.</span> <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()">Through donations such data in Canada can project members reinforced on the spot <strong>corrections and</strong> additions to concentrate.</span><p>
<span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><strong>In</strong> Germany, is negotiating with authorities over the release of such data are still difficult as<strong>Jochen pot,</strong> OpenStreetMap developer from Karlsruhe knows, <em>this country still prevail often insecurity and disapproval</em> ... <em>For 2009 we hope that progress.</em></span></p>
<span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><strong><a href="http://pocketnavigation.de">pocketnavigation.de</a> opinion:</strong></span> <br><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><em>Donations of this size will save the members of the OSM project much time and labor.</em></span> <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><em>But even after the import of spatial data, it will still have work to do to give Canada the coverage map on the standard of other regions in the free world map to bring.</em></span> <span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><em>Pity that the authorities in Germany are not yet ready to declare similar data available.</em></span> </div>
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