[Talk-alps] This list looks like a good idea...

[Simone Cortesi]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 22:59, sylvain letuffe<liste at letuffe.org> wrote:

> This list looks really new and I just subscribed "accidentally" (scouting
> through mailinglist lists)

The list is brand new, created today. After a short chat between me an
Mike Collinson, we decided to give it a try and create the first
multilingual/multinational mailinglist. Speaking one of the languages
of those spoken in the alps, is strongly encouraged. I feel myself
European.

> A quick intro: I'm french from chambéry and like mountains in all aspects
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Sletuffe

I'm Simone Cortesi, Italian, team member at the OpenStreetMap
Foundation. Living in Italy near Milano.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Simone
And by the way, I'm running for election at the upcoming elections for
the OSMF Board this week.

> This is about the france/italy border. Do you have any clue of the precision
> of your nationnal administartive border (entered a few month/year ago) ?
>
> We now have access to new data from france cadastre wich is roughly a 5m to
> 50m precision admin boundary. But I feel a bit worried as to remove a part of
> your import wich might well be as good or even better.

The border which exists now, if its tagged with the "ISTAT" word in it
is the one I did the conversion for about one year ago. At the time
was the only source I could get my hands on. The provider, our
national institute for statistics, which works on statistics and not
maps, did not care to use any standard/measurable precision while
retracing old maps, so they dont give any warranty on that.

So, if you have anything better...feel free to remove my borders and
put in yours. Please pay attention to the fact that we have complete
relations (level 2,4,6,8) and removing the FR-IT border will break it.

-S