[Talk-ca] importing geobase data for the Canadian boarder

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi james,
Why not just try an admin level higher than whats there for
alberta/sask. I dont think it needs to be a polygon to show up, or
does it?
Then we can use that as a benchmark for how to make the USA state
boarders show up.
In the 'nutral zone' (slightly lower can be the 'county' borders)

A logical solution IMO

cheers,
Sam


On 8/15/09, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Ben Konrath<ben at bagu.org> wrote:
>
>>>> Ok, I did some more poking around and it seems that the land border
>>>> with the US is really borked. For BC and Alberta, there are 3 - 4
>>>> different border lines with the US. I'm willing to do the work
>>>> required to clean this up by deleting the lines that don't make sense.
>>>> I just need to know if the Geobase information is the best one to use
>>>> for the border?
>
> I noticed the other day that the multipolygon relationship that you
> created to define the Canada US border has a gap in it. Not sure if
> was just missed, or if Paul Shipley made the hole. Paul last touched
> it in July, after you created it in May.
>
> The gap happens from the SE corner of Alberta to just south of Shaunavon,
> SK.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.17&lon=-108.49&zoom=8&layers=B000FTF
>
> I think you created this in multiple parts, as I tried to revert back,
> but that didn't bring back the missing section. I don't want to muck
> things up, so I thought it best to contact you again. The section to
> the east of the missing piece has also been poked at by "jaded". It
> may have been due to that, or possibly another user that deleted the
> multipolygon definition that defined this section of the border.
>
> I did an undelete in the area, and come up with 3 different deleted
> versions of one border or another, but nothing defining the
> multipolygon similar to the ones that exist on either side.
>
> Did we ever come up with a solution for having provincial and state
> borders show up at a reasonable zoom level for the North American
> Continent without "tagging for the renderers"? Canada and the USA are
> massive blank spots on the map. Defining the provincial borders is
> nearly useless as they can never be seen until you're zoomed in so
> close that you have to go into editing mode to figure out what the
> line on the screen is supposed to be.
>
> James
> VE6SRV
>
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