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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'>I also agree with Harald. The Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries are useful but not as part of the OSM database. If you want to see the forecast regions on an OSM map then create a mash-up that pulls the forecast region boundaries and the forecasts from Environment Canada and display them over top of an OSM map.<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'>Bernie.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#17365D'>Bernie Connors, P.Eng<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>Land Information Infrastructure Unit, SNB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000'><a href="mailto:bernie.connors@snb.ca"><span style='color:#C00000'>bernie.connors@snb.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#C00000'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><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"'> Pierre Béland [mailto:pierzenh@yahoo.fr] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 2013-01-25 14:46<br><b>To:</b> Harald Kliems; David E. Nelson<br><b>Cc:</b> talk-ca@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-ca] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I agree with Harald.<br><br>The place for such data might be better placed in a thematic map were this layer of information is added over the OSM layer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000BF'>Pierre </span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Harald Kliems <<a href="mailto:kliems@gmail.com">kliems@gmail.com</a>><br><b>À :</b> David E. Nelson <<a href="mailto:denelson83@yahoo.ca">denelson83@yahoo.ca</a>> <br><b>Cc :</b> "<a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a>> <br><b>Envoyé le :</b> Vendredi 25 janvier 2013 13h30<br><b>Objet :</b> Re: [Talk-ca] Environment Canada Forecast Region boundaries released</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'><br>Hi David:<br>May I ask why you think it's a good idea to add these to the OSM<br>database? I'm rather skeptical of imports of features that we have no<br>way of verifying on the ground (or otherwise). Yes, there are<br>exceptions to this rule, like municipal boundaries, but still. It's<br>great that Environment Canada is releasing this data but I'm not sure<br>if there's much value in adding it to OSM.<br>Cheers,<br>Harald.<br><br>On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:09 PM, David E. Nelson <<a href="mailto:denelson83@yahoo.ca">denelson83@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br>> <a href="http://dd.weatheroffice.gc.ca/meteocode/geodata/" target="_blank">http://dd.weatheroffice.gc.ca/meteocode/geodata/</a><br>><br>> All we need to do is have it released under OSM's licence, and then we can<br>> add the boundaries to OSM.<br>><br>> - David E. 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