Cool, thanks for breaking the silence there :-) I didn't want to be the only one filling up the talk-ca list.<div><br></div><div>Anyway, FYI the building outlines are available in the CanVec set, and it appears that it's mainly commercial/industrial <br>
<div>outlines. We should check if there are plans for including more buildings in the next release of CanVec. So for now, i have the buildings that aren't designated as anything else as building=yes.</div><div><br></div>
<div>We also have building nodes, these 2 are tagged as building=yes. For the area im looking at now (south of Pincher Creek,Alberta) it looks like it covers all the businesses (as farms are businesses) </div><div><br></div>
<div>Are these building nodes shown as in the middle of the property? or exactly where the building is?</div><div><br></div><div>So these could possibly used as a 'matcher' for the addresses? (using Automatch) </div>
<div><br></div><div>I'd give a +1 for having a line off-set. .. there are power lines, hydro poles... mail boxes which all will eventually get tagged. So i wouldn't be concerned with the number of nodes in the database.. but rather that the community agrees that these map features are OK to be importing. As its rendered (on the maps that choose to renders address ranges) as a dashed line, it clearly shows what it is.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We also have the CanVec Roads which can be used as an overlay (not to be imported.... obviously) for the areas which have not yet been covered by the GeoBaseNRN.import. .. so that can be used as a guide.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If going the rectangles route, making them smaller in area would help, as we want to show that these rectangles are not the building outlines, as this info is unknown.</div><div><br></div><div>The other point i need to make is that it could potentially be possible to acquire the property lines. Once the cities start looking at this map, they might realize the value of having the property lines available. All though this would take a few years to happen. (somewhere down the road it COULD happen). :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, wondering... is Alberta now complete? What province is next? </div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone had a chance to look at the proposed tags for the GeoBaseNHN features?</div><div><br></div><div>
It seems that because a lot of river/lake names are available it makes sense to use this dataset rather than CanVec. So my aim now is to set a sample area loaded so everyone can see and comment. It has way less map features than CanVec, but they all need to be tagged right. .. As it's going to be hard to remove data once its in there.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Sam Vekemans</div><div>Across Canada Trails</div></div>