[Talk-ca] Converting stats can boundaries....

[Tyler Gunn]

I'm working on converting the StatsCan census boundaries to OSM format.

Here are a few smaller cities/towns in Manitoba to give you an idea of
what they look like imported:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/66090425
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/66090418
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/66091364

Please comment on the tagging I've added to these; I followed the
boundaries of some locales in the US.  I have set the admin_level to 8
(cities towns (see
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level#10_admin_level_values_for_specific_countries))
since I think the big thing we're after is the city and town boundaries,
right?   I have no way of knowing from the boundaries data what kind of
area (city, RM or otherwise) I'm dealing with.

You'd also have to change the place=city to whatever is appropriate; be it
city, village, etc.  I did this for the examples above.

My big question is: 
Should we be bringing in JUST the cities/towns/village boundaries?  My
person thought is that y

If you'd like to take a look at the converted OSM file for MB, it's
available at the following URL:
www.egunn.com/dl/statcan_boundaries_mb.zip

Tyler