[Talk-ca] Newbie to the Canadian mapping scene looking for examples of well mapped areas

[Tyler Gunn]

> Hi Tyler, 
> Welcome
> Yup, thats alot of houses.  Great work!

Thanks!


> A couple things.
> 1 - You can use Toporama from Natural Resources Canada, and set it up as a WMS layer in JOSM

Awesome!   I've added that in and have been able to trace some roads up in rural MB around Dauphin, the currently un-mapped town where my inlaws live.  I figure I'll take my GPS along and track out the entire town next time I'm out there.  A good excuse for an outing!  But the Toporama gives a REALLY good starting point.

> 
> 2 - The Town of Duncan, BC On Vancouver Island is perhaps the best  mapped place in Canada. 
> Although we did get some help from  (Local Mappers / Landsat / Yahoo imagery / CanVec/Toporama/GeoBaseNRN/ GeoBaseNHN/Cowichan Valley Regional District / Atlas of Canada / NRCan geogratis ).   Great work Kevin Smith! (who is the top contributor)   This is a wonderful example of a combination of efforts from multiple sources.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=48.77478&lon=-123.69681&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF

Excellent, I'll take a peek around there and see what I can garner from what has been done there.  I would ultimately like to map my own subdivision as accurately as possible, and then gradually keep adding more details outwards from there.   I imagine I'll never run out of points to add.

> 
> Yup, and how you already have houses drawn in.  It will make the map look even better.

It definitely does look good on the map I must admit. :)


Thanks!
Tyler


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