[Talk-ca] Geobase import by provinces

[Corey Burger]

Given most of the country has at least a few roads, we face a real
issue. The last thing we should be doing it ripping out a bunch of
mapping that somebody just added. So if we are going to rip out
exisiting stuff (and lets be honest, the effort of merging for some s
tuff just ain't worth it) then we should do a time stamp check to see
if the data was added within the past month or so. This prevents us
from dropping a whole load of data on a potential user that might get
really annoyed, as has happened in more than one case with the TIGER
data. To me, users are far far far more important than geobase data.

Corey

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:21 PM,  <michcasa at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the idea is not to replace existing OSM data. Therefore the import
> should be able to insert only new data. I do not think we should exclude
> areas. We should detect the changes instead. Richard proposed to start where
> osm data is not present. I agree with him.
>
> Michel
>
> On Nov 20, 2008 9:57pm, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Michel Gilbert wrote:
>>
>> > Hi osm users,
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>> >
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>> > Geobase National Road Network (NRN) datasets are available in shape and
>> > GML
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>> > by provinces or Territories. So, I think we should plan the import by
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>> > provinces. Furthermore, we should base, the order of conversion, on the
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>> > dataset content. In fact, there are three levels of NRN content:
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>> >
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>> > Roads with basic attributes : Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New
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>> > Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories and
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>> > Nunavut Territory
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>> >
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>> > Roads with basic attributes + street & place names : British Columbia
>>
>>
>>
>> Both BC and NS have significant areas that have been mapped,
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>> specifically around Victoria, Vancouver and Halifax. Is the data going
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>> to be cut with a bounding box to exclude those areas? Are we just
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>> going to wipe out existing mapping?
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>>
>>
>> Corey
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