[Imports] Ottawa, Canada Tree Import

Denis Carriere carriere.denis at gmail.com
Thu Jun 29 12:52:33 UTC 2017


There's many of us that are from the local Ottawa area, we will make sure
we capture those exceptions. I am sure in the Downtown area we will find
some valid trees that are completely within the building (green spaces on
top of a roof).

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*Denis Carriere*
*GIS Software & Systems Specialist*

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:34 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> sent from a phone
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> > On 29. Jun 2017, at 14:01, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
> >
> > When doing an import, it's important that someone does this sort of
> > work. That's part of the process of doing an import, to learn more about
> > the accuracy of the data you have, and to check how it would look after
> > you import it. You shouldn't just presume everything will fit together
> > 100%, someone needs to do this sort of analysis.
>
>
> yes, it will give you some indication about obvious or very likely errors,
> still there are also trees inside buildings, it is a rare situation, but I
> could recall several instances where I've seen it (both, buildings built
> around trees/leaving gaps/holes, and trees being planted inside buildings).
>
> Problems like these are obvious, but there's no indication that the rest
> of the trees are more correct, it might be just harder to spot the issues
> when the data seems fine on first glance.
>
> Are you local to the area? I'd look for some trees you know that fell in
> the past years and see whether these events are reflected.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
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