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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The levels in your initial email<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> Available administrative boundary will be included in the next release of Canvec.osm. From the wiki, here is the tagging values I'm going to use…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> Municipal Regional: boundary=administrative; admin_level=5 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> Upper municipality: boundary=administrative; admin_level=6 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> Municipality: boundary=administrative; admin_level=8<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Bégin, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Begin@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> Paul Norman; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Talk-ca] Administrative Boundary<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Hi Paul, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>are you saying that I should use ...</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>ISO value for admin_level (6 & 7 - actually what is used in the GeoBase product), or</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>what is identified in the wiki (5 & 6) <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level</a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Question mark!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Daniel</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Paul Norman <a href="mailto:[mailto:penorman@mac.com]">[mailto:penorman@mac.com]</a> <br><b>Sent:</b> February 14, 2012 14:57<br><b>To:</b> Bégin, Daniel; <a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Talk-ca] Administrative Boundary</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>From the wiki, those look consistent with what I’ve seen locally, although naturally I can’t comment about Quebec.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Bégin, Daniel <a href="mailto:[mailto:Daniel.Begin@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca]">[mailto:Daniel.Begin@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca]</a> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 13, 2012 5:54 AM<br><b>To:</b> Paul Norman; <a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Talk-ca] Administrative Boundary<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Bonjour Norman,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>ISO Level 7 (Upper municipality)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>refers to an administrative area like the County of Peterborough (ON), while the ISO Level 6 (Municipal Regional)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>refers to an administrative area like Eastern Townships in Québec (a group of county - a level that exist only in Québec)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Daniel</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Paul Norman <a href="mailto:[mailto:penorman@mac.com]">[mailto:penorman@mac.com]</a> <br><b>Sent:</b> February 9, 2012 17:15<br><b>To:</b> Bégin, Daniel; <a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Talk-ca] Administrative Boundary</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Can you give an example of a municipal regional or upper municipality? Looking at the global usage, admin_level=5 is seldom used. I would think that Municipal Regional would be 6 and upper municipality would be 7, but I can’t really say without examples.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I would also suggest that these features in the .osm file not be closed – just have the boundary, don’t handle it like lakes where you have multiple areas you need to join where they cross tile bounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Bégin, Daniel <a href="mailto:[mailto:Daniel.Begin@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca]">[mailto:Daniel.Begin@RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca]</a> <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 09, 2012 1:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Talk-ca] Administrative Boundary<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bonjour again!</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Available administrative boundary will be included in the next release of Canvec.osm. From the wiki, here is the tagging values I'm going to use…</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>Municipal Regional: boundary=administrative; admin_level=5</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>Upper municipality: boundary=administrative; admin_level=6</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'>Municipality: boundary=administrative; admin_level=8</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> (Canada)</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Municipality admin_level=8 corresponds to gdf order in ISO standard.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Municipal Regional Area and Upper Municipality (admin_level=5 and 6) are different from what the ISO standard says (gdf order=6 and 7). Is someone can confirm that admin_level=5 and 6 is really what is expected?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks again</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Daniel Bégin</span></i></b> <br><i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>Centre d'information topographique de Sherbrooke</span></i> <br><i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>Topographic Information Center of Sherbrooke</span></i><span lang=FR-CA><br></span><i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Ressources Naturelles Canada / Natural Ressources Canada</span></i><span lang=FR-CA><br></span><i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>2144, rue King Ouest, bureau 010</span></i><span lang=FR-CA><br></span><i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Sherbrooke (Québec) J1J 2E8</span></i><span lang=FR-CA><br></span><i><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>(819) 564-5600 ext.242, <a href="mailto:dbegin@NRCan.gc.ca">dbegin@NRCan.gc.ca</a></span></i><i><span lang=EN-CA> </span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>