[Talk-ca] 083g10 crowsnest pass canvec2osm sample area

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi, thanks :)

1 -those roads orginally came from the same source, just geobase NRN
is better :-)

2 -rivers - i see your point, i'll look into it.
-compare the 'accracy tag, and the AQTECH tag (i'll add it in there so
people can see the method that the origional data was recorded)

3 -a minor glitch, for some reason it didnt pick up metric (i'll fix
that). These are just random spot heights, with no particular
significance. A mountain peak would be a POI which canvec doesnt have
(afaik) so maybe its not needed? Is there a better tag for these spot
heights?

4 - sort the OSM Files by size, the smallest ones contain no OSM data.
(should make the list to go through smaller)

thanks for the feedback!
canvec2osm v0.08 should have these points fixed.

Sam

On 3/10/09, simon at mungewell.org <simon at mungewell.org> wrote:
> Hi Sam and all,
> There's a lot (!!!) of data there, of most interest to me I guess are the
> mountains, waterways and road structures. I had a (casual) look through
> those and they seem to make sense.
>
> Mostly the roads match OSM data layer, which is rather spooky - I had to
> check some areas which I know are too recent to be in Geobase to make sure
> you hadn't cheated/merged already. Road names are missing though
>
> Some of the streams appear to be in a different place to what I have
> observed with GPS track but that could be down to GPS positioning errors
> (or not...).
>
> All waterways are tagged with 'waterway=river', even if they are very
> minor. It would be better to tag as the smallest waterway possible and
> then manually upgrade them to larger types later (or even auto-magically
> if they have 'river' in the name).
>
> Despite being in the mountains there seems to be a lack of
> 'elevation_point_imperial' or 'elevation_point', even Crowsnest Mountain
> (the highest peak around at 2785m) is missing. There are only 6 compared
> to the 28 that 'peakfinder' has in the area, they are also missing the
> proper names and elevations.
>
> As to the other layers, more data than my brain can handle...
> Simon.
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