[Talk-ca] Coastlines on OSM

[James Ewen]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:

> If the NHN would be
> imported as nodes with reference back to the source, and the users could
> connect-the-dots, that might possably work better.

I sure hope this doesn't happen. With the world's longest coastline,
and a very limited number of users, it could take a very long time to
try and import Canada's coastline by hand.

Also, it's pretty difficult to figure out which node connects to the
next in the proper order on an irregular way such as a coastline.
Without the numbers, connect the dots is not a fun game.

This concept of importing GeoBase data as a viewable layer, and then
have a user manually import the information one node at a time is an
extremely labour intensive operation. I'm not going to be contributing
to a make work project like that when a full import can be done just
as easily, and only the odd node here or there might need a manual
intervention.

I would rather have to do the manual intervention on every node and
way that I have created in Sherwood Park and Strathcona County, to fix
a duplicate layer issue, than not have to manually deal with Sherwood
Park, and have to manually enter every other node across the province.

There are only a couple thousand nodes that would need to be dealt
with in Strathcona County in an automated import, but there will be a
hundred thousand that would need to be dealt with in a manual import.

James
VE6SRV