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Hi Martijn,<br>
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<pre wrap="">Was some sort of progress page kept so we could see where certain features were imported or not (yet)?
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Yes, here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada_Import_Status">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada_Import_Status</a><br>
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and the related Google Spreadsheet, but it's only kept patchily up
to date, and some users appear to have blocked off an entire major
grid square rather than updating the smaller blocks as they go.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Has a followup ever been considered to augment / fix these botched / low quality imports? </pre>
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Occasional mentions on talk-ca, but when you're facing landuse
relations each with a large number of ways with the maximum number
of nodes, it's a hugely daunting task. Fixing broken lakes alone
could take a lifetime.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Ah, interesting. Is there already a list of these candidates or would it make sense to start one and look into proper licensing?</pre>
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Most of the local governments in Canada are listed on the Import
page, or as Contributors, where they are compatible. Most of them
are now using their own homebrew variant (sigh) of OGL 2.0.<br>
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The one glaring omission is the official Canadian Postal Codes
database. It is proprietary.<br>
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My beef with much of the urban data I work with is that addresses
are plagued with unnecessary <b>addr:city</b>, <b>addr:country</b>
and <b>addr:province</b> tags when we have working boundary
relations. Municipal addresses, street addresses and postal
addresses are not necessarily the same in Canada!<br>
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cheers,<br>
Stewart<br>
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