[Talk-ca] Fwd: GeoBase vs CanVec

[john whelan]

The CANVEC tiles contain the full street name.  Ottawa has a number of
streets that were imported from Geobase that did not include a street
name, contained abbreviation or only part of the name.

This maybe because of the way the import was done but the CANVEC data
seemed cleaner in this regard.

Cheerio John

On 23 August 2010 09:14, Bégin, Daniel <Daniel.Begin at rncan-nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
> Hi Brendan,
>
> "John" described the difference between Canvec and GeoBase pretty well!
>
> Daniel
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> To: Brendan Morley; talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: GeoBase vs CanVec
>
> G'Day Australian Mapper
>
> Perhaps someone from Natural Resources Canada (the Federal mapping agency)
> could give a better answer, but my understanding is:
>
> - CanVec originated from the NTDB (National Topographic Database) which is
> essentially the same data as is used for the (sometimes quite out of date)
> 1:50 000 scale National Topographic Series maps. That is all Federal data.
>
> - GeoBase is an initiative which aims to reduce duplication of work / costs
> by having Provinces (equivalent to Aus. states) or other entities supply
> "best" data to the Feds.
>
> Thus GeoBase would actually be an example of the left hand working in
> partnership with the right hand.
>
> I believe CanVec is being updated with any better sources as they become
> available, e.g. National Roads Network (NRN) gets migrated into new editions
> of CanVec.
>
> I believe there are many data themes that are in CanVec which are not in
> GeoBase, and presumably never will be in GeoBase unless the initiative is
> extended to include agreements for those themes.
>
> If I have misunderstood anything I'd be delighted to be corrected.
>
> Now, what is "CommonMap"? I had never heard of that until now. A quick web
> search gets me here:
> http://commonmap.info/w/index.php/Main_Page
>
> It looks to me like it is a very similar concept to OSM, apart from
> licensing perhaps. So it makes me wonder if we have a "left hand - right
> hand" situation there?
>
> John
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Brendan Morley <morb.gis at beagle.com.au>
> To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> Sent: Fri, August 20, 2010 9:11:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: GeoBase vs CanVec
>
> Also, I assume if I were to import GeoBase data into CommonMap, I should
> follow closely the rules implemented in
> http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/geobase2osm/geobase2osm.py
> ?
>
>
> Brendan
>
> On 21/08/2010 9:52 AM, Brendan Morley wrote:
>> Hello Canadian mappers,
>>
>> Sam Vekemans suggested I ask the following here:
>>
>> What is the relationship between CanVec data and GeoBase data?
>>
>> To this layperson they seem to be two initiatives hosted by the same
>> government that seem to have similar objectives.  Almost like the left hand
>> not talking to the right hand.
>>
>> Can anyone explain briefly the differences?  For example, it seems to me
>> that GeoBase is "closer" to the data authors, and CanVec feeds from that,
>> and CanVec concentrates on having complete coverage at particular scales
>> (like 1:50k).
>> Am I on the right track?
>> Is there a government document that goes into detail?
>>
>> My interest is to pick out the best bits to seed CommonMap with.  I'm
>> looking for accuracy and timeliness.
>>
>>
>> Brendan
>>
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