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size=2 face=Arial>Bonjour Brent,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=009512011-19052011><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>I'm forwarding your email to the manager in charge of the
Canvec product. There are many project teams working on rethinking
Canadian mapping nowadays. May it is just the good timing to have your
requests consider!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=009512011-19052011><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=009512011-19052011><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Daniel</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> Brent Fraser
[mailto:bfraser@geoanalytic.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> May 18, 2011
11:27<BR><B>To:</B> Bégin, Daniel<BR><B>Cc:</B>
talk-ca@openstreetmap.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Off-topic: general Canvec
issues<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Daniel,<BR><BR> While this is not directly related to
OpenStreetMap, I'm posting this here since the OSM community seems to be the
most active set of public users of Canvec data. The goal of this post is
to improve Canvec (and therefore hopefully improve OSM).<BR><BR> As a
method of testing the latest release of Mapserver (<A
class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://mapserver.org/">http://mapserver.org/</A>), I attempted to use
Canvec v7 to render a <A
href="http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/product/search.do?id=A6291EF5-F3FC-A29F-3162-DE4DB194FD38">CanTopo</A>
style map. See my mapserver <A
href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2011-May/068731.html">post</A>
for more details on my efforts. While the issues I covered on the
Mapserver email list are specific to Mapserver rendering shortcomings, there
were a few other issues related to the Canvec data.<BR><BR> One of the
main issues I ran into was the <A
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec:_Toponymy_%28TO%29">Toponymy
(TO) layer</A> is represented by point geometry preventing me from
rendering the mountain range text (for example) in a curved manner as done in
CanTopo. Is there any possibility of having NRCan change the geometry to
LINESTRING? Or perhaps having a _TO_1580009_1 (linestring) shapefile for
those names representing linear features in addition to the existing
_TO_1580009_0 (point) shapefile?<BR><BR> Some of the other less serious
issues (these can be handled by pre-processing the Canvec data):<BR><BR>Contour
layer (FO_1030009_1): no attribute for major/minor contours preventing
bolding of major contours<BR>Stream Layer (HD_1470009_1): major streams broken
at tributary intersections preventing single label for
streams<BR><BR>Thanks!<BR><PRE class=moz-signature cols="72">--
Best Regards,
Brent Fraser</PRE></BODY></HTML>