[Talk-ca] Importing geobase data, learning from everyone

[Matt Wilkie]

 > The issue here is that OSM is a sandbox, where all points get moved,
 > changed, added, & ommited (in the case of adding roads that exist
 > already).
 > The question is: how to deal with the duplicates? And how to deal with
 > geobase updates?

Feed the corrections back to Geobase so the next release has the changes.

That's another "easy to say harder to do" thing. NRCan has rigourous 
validation procedures so getting the all the i's dotted and t's crossed 
the way they need it can be a bit of a pain when feeding changes back up 
the line. There's also some work in persuading them that the changes you 
are proposing are correct and valid. It does work though; nobody wants 
to knowingly distribute wrong data.

cheers,

matt wilkie
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