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

[Ben Konrath]

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?

Thanks, Ben

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Ben Konrath <ben at bagu.org> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>>
>> Ben Konrath wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm interested in creating a map that contains all of Canada's territory
>> > up to the border with our neighbouring countries or the ocean border.
>> > The first problem that I found is that the Canadian border isn't defined
>> > well in the OSM data. As an example, the border running to the South of
>> > New Brunswick can't be correct:
>> >
>> > http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.277&lon=-65.323&zoom=9&layers=B000FTF
>> > <http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.277&lon=-65.323&zoom=9&layers=B000FTF>
>>
>> Wow, and looking at the tags, it appears Geobase has ceded Halifax to
>> State of Maine.
>
> So is it ok to manually fix this? I also noticed that there is a
> conflict between the Geobase data and the old border data in BC. Do
> you know which data is more accurate so that I can manually fix it?:
>
> http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.9899&lon=-123.2273&zoom=13&layers=B000FTF
>
> (Oh and I noticed that I can't spell ;)
>
> Thanks, Ben
>