<html><body><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>I agree. A selective import from CANVEC is fine and generally gives good results. As long as you don't import things like forests and buildings (which are both woefully out-of-date, broken, or outright wrong), there usually isn't a problem. However, if someone just imports an entire block of data without inspecting it, that's when we run into the visible issues that the peanut gallery picks apart.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Victoria, BC<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"James" <james2432@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Andrew" <andrew.allison@teksavvy.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"talk-ca" <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, November 27, 2018 9:58:19 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Talk-ca] canvec imports<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="auto">not sure why Canvec always gets shat uppon, their water features are great and pretty accurate, the forest/landcover on the other hand needs fixing before import. I think it's clear enough on the canvec wiki page that only experienced mappers/importers should attempt a canvec import.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue., Nov. 27, 2018, 12:54 p.m. Andrew <<a href="mailto:andrew.allison@teksavvy.com" target="_blank">andrew.allison@teksavvy.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;">FYI Canada<br>
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I made a few imports to canada a while ago and apparently<br>
raised the ire of someone.<br>
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Here we go again :-(<br>
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This was the first message<br>
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>>Please, fix issues caused by this changeset for example in region of<br>
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Yup, that was it, I was like ok, whats wrong with the changeset? Found<br>
an overlapping way. Figured that was it :-)<br>
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And now....<br>
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Where is documentation page of this import? Can you link to discussion<br>
done before this import started?<br>
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And So On.<br>
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On 2018-11-27 17:21:34 UTC PurpleMustang wrote:<br>
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Hello: This import has been a work in progress for about 10 years now<br>
:-)<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue</a><br>
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<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase/Announcement" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase/Announcement</a><br>
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Andrew<br>
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Note that currently active import should have a wiki page describing<br>
what exactly is imported and how data is processed - see <br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_</a><br>
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Oh Well Here we go again<br>
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Andrew<br>
aka CanvecImports<br>
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