[Talk-ca] PEI is the next coolest province (delayed reaction)

[Robert Shand]

On 2010-02-11, at 11:18 AM, Richard Weait wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Robert Shand <bob at shand.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 2010-02-11, at 10:26 AM, Sam Vekemans wrote:
>>> I also like Franks idea of hosting tiles rendered, so an example can be shown.
>>> (and Daniel just mentioned that the address range data will be available)
>> 
>> Richard is removing the data as I speak. I won't have time to look at things more until the weekend.  However I do like the idea of doing a different set of rendered tiles to highlight what their data can add to OSM.
> 
> The small sample of data that I saw was pretty low-quality.  Address
> nodes were in the water and in intersections.  Yuck.  If you want an
> example of address data that might be nice to add to OSM, have a look
> at the Toronto data example on my site.  Once properly rectified
> (thank you, Emilie) the addresses line up very nicely with OSM road
> vectors.  Sadly, their data license does not permit use in OSM; my
> sample image did not import the data to OSM.


The data I was looking at was perfect for Charlottetown and that comes from the same source.  Perhaps there is something else going on too

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