[Imports] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 06 July 2017, Kyle Nuttall wrote:
> >But i understand that as Canadians you have a reputation to defend
>
> I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean.

Ok, i understand that reference is probably not obvious to some people 
although i am pretty sure most readers here knew exactly what i meant.

I will try to phrase it as neutral as i can:

Canada has probably (maybe with the exception of Tiger in the US) the 
largest volume of imported data - in absolute terms and of course also 
relative to the number of mappers - of any country at the moment.  Most 
of the imports in Canada, especially Canvec (which is by far the most 
voluminous) come with serious issues in the eyes of data users and 
mappers elsewhere (which are diverse - technical, semantic and factual 
problems) and attempts to resolve these in discussion with Canadian 
importers almost always result in a failure of communication, usually 
there is not even agreement on the existance of a problem.

> That said, the diameter values have been converted to circumference
> (in metres) and the species:en tags have been 'flipped' and now read
> correctly (Sugar Maple vs. Maple Sugar)

That looks good.  Note regarding diameter vs. circumference - i was 
suggesting to use the established pre-existing tag but in principle you 
are free to use any tags you like 
(https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Any_tags_you_like) - but you need 
to document them on the wiki (which is why i complained about use of an 
undocumented tag).

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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/