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<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Bonjour OSMers!<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
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</span></font>Canvec.osm product conversion completed last week!</div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">I will soon reprocess the files to create and add metadata (Metadata.txt) into each .zip file. At the same occasion, I will correct some potential oddities identified by Paul Norman.</div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><i>What is new:</i><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div>
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<li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">There is no more <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">“Here be Dragons”</span></font> areas in the Canvec product! NRCan completed mapping Canada at 50K scale about 2 months ago. Almost
100 years after Canada started mapping at this scale (approximately!-)<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Municipal Boundaries for SK,MB,NB,YT,NT and NU - linear - are available</li></ul>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><i>Changes from previous release:</i><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div>
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<li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Water definition (natural=water) now fits the Osm coastline definition (high water level).<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></li></ul>
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<li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Format of the ZippedOsm.txt in ftp site has changed.</li><li style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">The .osm files are now created with a <osm version='0.6' upload='false'> tag to prevent accidental upload. The data can still be uploaded, it just gives another warning before the upload so that the mapper can double-check
his action.</li></ul>
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<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec"><font color="blue"><u>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec#CanVec_10</u></font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Thanks to those who are maintaining this wiki page :-)<font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Let me know if you find unexpected problems in the data. </div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Cheers, <br>
Daniel </div>
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