[Talk-ca] Provincial Parks Sample

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi all,

I have loaded the 7 .osm files (in a zip file) and some details on the wiki.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase/NRCan_Protected_Areas#Data

I'm mainly working on those parks that cross along the (Across Canada
Trails) route network.   What i'll be doing is contacting the local are
mappers as i go along.  As now i'll be much easier for people to be mapping
more details.

I don't think that this file is available on the Ibycus Topo, so it will be
great to see a more complete map when it's loaded in :)   ... slowly but
surley...  there is no rush. :)

 Anyway,
I loaded the Most northern National Park in Canada
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-79.0394413&minlat=81.1524017&maxlon=-61.0035376&maxlat=83.3456729&box=yes
this area of the world doesnt get rendered as fast .... but perhaps when the
CanVec data is available, this are will get filled in.  ... im sure it'll
get some attention.

I also loaded Fundy National Park (New Brunswick)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.616&lon=-64.939&zoom=11&layers=B000FTF

And Pukaskwa national Park  (south of Marathon, Ontario) before Wawa,  you
can see on the coast the Voyageur trail.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.34&lon=-85.841&zoom=11&layers=B000FTF

And also Cowichan River Provincial Park.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.7597&lon=-123.8091&zoom=14&layers=B000FTFT

Please check the tags. .. im still not sure about the natural=forest;
landuse=wood.   If you see at the Ucluelet are a different shade of green.
and also look at how the Olympic National Forest in the US got mapped.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.071&lon=-123.74&zoom=10&layers=B000FTF

... this is exactly the reason why we map the parks one at a time & use care
where these things can get verified :)

Cheers,
Sam



On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>wrote:

> hi,
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Kevin Smith <haietlik at draconic.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 04/04/2010 8:38 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:
>> > Hi Kevin,
>> > As we were chatting earlier..
>> > (cc:talk-ca list)
>> >
>> > I just want to show you a sample.
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-123.8369687&minlat=48.7525877&maxlon=-123.7812077&maxlat=48.7667345&box=yes
>> > <
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-123.8369687&minlat=48.7525877&maxlon=-123.7812077&maxlat=48.7667345&box=yes
>> >
>> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4329006
>> >
>> > It appears that the National Protected area's file DOES contain
>> > provincial park boundaries.
>> >
>> > I've converted & created 11 .osm files.   and i think it's best to
>> > just copy in 1 at a time, as there is no rush.
>> >
>> > This one is interesting because the Cowichan Vally Regional District
>> > ALSO has the parks file (but i think it's just for regional parks)
>> It has regional, municipal, and provincial parks, though it only has a
>> few of the parks in the other municipalities and it only gives them
>> names,  It doesn't have a field to indicate which parks are at which
>> level.  And it doesn't include the portion of PRNP that overlaps the
>> CVRD.  And actually I was doing the integration for it while you
>> uploaded that test. I'd already started uploading it when checked the
>> map and saw the addition.
>>
>
> Ya, the data appears to have mainly the Provincial & National Parks.
>
>
>>
>> > Anyway... i was thinking creating a new tag
>> > "boundary=provincial_park"  kind of like how we have the proposal for
>> > boundary=aborigional_lands.
>>
>> It bothers me a little as it's something of a Canadian specific term.
>>
> as 'state_park' would be the USA equivalent.
>
>
>> I'd kind of prefer to see national_park replaced with a more generic
>> term, and then use operator or admin_level.  As it is I made the
>> provincial parks in the CVRD data national_park with "operator=BC
>> Parks".
>
> ok, what i did was list it as 'boundary=national_park'  and didn't include
> an operator tag,  As i think it would be on a park by park basis, as to who
> exactly runs it.
>
>
>> The rest are either leisure=park or leisure=nature_reserve (for
>> "Nature Parks") with the the municipality they are in as the operator.
>>
>
> I've also changed the "is_in=*"  tag to "address:province=*"   and for
> french "address:province:fr"=*
> i think that makes more sense, since this helps with name finding much
> better.   (As all of these parks technically have their own mailing address.
> As they have an 'operator'.   Even if the Operator is in another part of the
> country, there is always a phone number to call.
>
> I didn't want to list 'Parks Canada'   as this isn't an 'official list' of
> what exactly are under this jurisdiction.
>
> So ya.  This will be the only sample i load for now.   It will be
> interesting to see if there is a difference from what the CVRD data has.
> Please copy-in that same park over top of what i just loaded.  (so we can
> see a difference).
>
> And only copy-in a few  parks.   Probably Northern Ontario where i'm
> working on the Voyageur Trail.   Im just updating the wiki with the source
> files now.
>
> Note to the rest of the talk-ca list:   We will also see a difference
> between what The province of Ontario has in it's shp files for the parks.
> when compared to the National NRCan data.  (it might be from the same
> source) and if the geometry is 'identical' we will know that it is.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
>
>> --
>>
>> Kevin Smith <haietlik at draconic.ca>
>>
>>
>>
>
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