<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">About the waterways - I think many of the waterways (smaller ones) were just traces of aerial imagery onto the topo maps. Waterways are too much of a pain to do by GPS on such a large scale so I couldn't see them being too accurate, unless you get a municipality's watershed layers which I've found to be very accurate and detailed, but those aren't available to the public or under the CC so it doesn't matter anyways. For all we know the federal data could have been aerial-->paper topo-->digitized, meaning it could be very innacurate. I don't know what the metadata says since I'm at work and can't (shouldn't) access it, so I don't know if it says in there what the source is. I think a user who knows the area should be the one who decides what should happen to the waterway or at least compare the bot loaded data with the aerial imagery that's already available to decide which is nearest to the actual location.<br>
<br clear="all">-Kevin (Kevo)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cool, Yup, the provider for this particular data feature (single line watercourse) is "Federal" and vector, & 19 meters off.</div><div><br></div>
<div>So judging by the flickr photos of the area, i see that in fact the waterway is a "stream" rather than a "river". So i think i will make "stream" the default for the non-isolated watercourse's. (although in the spring after a heavy snow winter, that creek could be a river) :-) </div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, now we have 2 separate people who have been on that roadway as well as will get more GPS Traces on the way. Cool :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Do you have an area that you'd like to see as a sample?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Sam Vekemans</div><div>Across Canada Trails</div></div>