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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bonjour Tony,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You are right about the fact that NRCan data is out of date. To have an idea on how out-of-date it is, the latest version of Canvec has a text file that gives these specific details for each map (metadata.txt). This file is included within each Canvec .zip file. See…<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'><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canvec">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canvec</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec:_Metadata">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec:_Metadata</a><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'>You wrote: “Does it serve any useful purpose? Is it safe to delete that polygon or will it come back on some re-import in the future?”<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'>There is no automatic import. Someone like you has decided to import the data some time ago. You can remove it if you wish – but then deleting the work done by someone else – or better: why don’t you update the polygon to reflect the actual residential area as it is today?<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'>Best<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Daniel<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><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Tony Toews [mailto:tony@tonytoews.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> March-02-13 22:09<br><b>To:</b> talk-ca<br><b>Subject:</b> [Talk-ca] Out of date or incomplete NRCan-CanVec-7.0 data<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Folks<br><br>I'm just a casual editor who cleans up things I know first hand in a few small towns and a small city. So I went to Landmark, Manitoba and saw an interesting, irregularly shaped out-of-date/incomplete polygon that was added. I don't recall seeing it when I last visited there several months ago but who knows.<br><br>Residential Area - Source - NRCan-CanVec-7.0<br><br>This appears to display a shaded area on the user viewable map. <br><br>The problem is that this is very much out of date or incomplete. Furthermore, for that village/hamlet it's mostly nonsense. Main street, which is the highway running north/south through Landmark is the commercial/industrial road through town although there are houses interspersed among the retail and commercial buildings and feed mill. Furthermore the residential area goes 1.5 blocks west and a few blocks east. So it might as well not even exist.<br><br>Now judging on my memories of that village/hamlet it is probably at least ten years out of date. <br><br> Does it serve any useful purpose? Is it safe to delete that polygon or will it come back on some re-import in the future. <br><br>Tony<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>