[Talk-ca] Can-Amera border, states and provinces.

[James Ewen]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Lennard<ldp at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> As you guys in the North Americas might will probably already have
> noticed, the main mapnik style now shows state boundaries, and also
> labels them either by ref or name, depending on zoom.

I noticed that yesterday... I'm much happier now, Canada is starting
to look like it has some mapping going on. It's no longer a blank
slate. Of course now that the borders are rendered at a level when you
can see the data, I see that there are multiple borders around
Alberta. Every time we make the data in the database visible, we find
more problems! Oh well, it was an easy fix... I had a look and found
that it was some lunk-head by the user name of VE6SRV that put
imprecise borders in place... Just deleted them from the database, and
now all should render nicely.

Oh yeah, there's only one North America... even if those silly people
to the south of us think they can label themselves as if they are the
only inhabitants of the Americas!

So, while poking around, I notice that again we have these node
remnants... big old green dots along the way that don't describe
anything. We've seen this quite often before, mostly part of mass
imports. The lakewalker script left these behind on shorelines, the
GeoBase road import left them as well. Now again they are here on the
border import.

Do we need to look at fixing the way the automated imports happen, or
fixing the import routines to be able to handle the speed at which the
data is thrown at it, or do we just live with it?

It also looks like Daniel Patterson was importing the continental
divide as well. Lots of nodes, but it doesn't look like a way was
described. Is there a tag for the continental divide? I did a quick
look in the wiki, and didn't see it. They might have a tag in the
watershed project. The continental divide is a feature that is
described on a lot of maps.

Here's where to look:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.7998&lon=-119.977&zoom=13

James
VE6SRV