[Talk-ca] NTS progress status chart

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi all,
I have edited the GoogleDocs Chart to state that the purpose of the
chart is really just a 'general overview' where it list who are the
main top mappers in each region.

Since its actually not possible to keep track, since this is a crowd
sourced project.
We can have thousands of people working all the time :)  ... just like
for regular mapping.    I map around my house, you map around your
house, and thousands of others maps around their house... and
eventually we end up with a great map,
This is the reason that canvec is available with quad-tree tiles.   So
it's tiny tiles for each area.   So the in the local areas, people can
get together to work on it.
... and, if we want... we can further split the .osm file into smaller areas.

So the things that are possible are:
-keeping a list of what tile areas are available from CanVec
-what Garmin Maps are available
-what combined maps are available
--listing what areas have all of the converted data (for the other datasets)

The origional purpose of the chart was to keep track of who is
converting what data,   but now since the CanVec data is being made
available.   It's free for hundreds of people to work on the all the
time.  (with only 1 person in charge of converting the data).
(1:many ration instead of few:many ratio) for making .osm files  which
i think is better.  And having people submit solutions to fix the
'final product', before it becomes available

And to the other big datasets, it's really just the few of us who are
working on it. Where it is actually just 1 person who is 'in charge'
of converting that particular dataset, and reporting back to the
community for review (then that 1 person re-converts when needed) or
in some cases, someone else does the 'final product' of that dataset.

So it's still good for doing the rest of  automatch and we know that
there are features missing from canvec, so this is a way to keep track
of that stuff. if people want to.

We do have WMS layers for tracing, so this also helps with locally mapping.

Cheers,
Sam

P.S.  This Canada Import method was derived from the experiences of
TIGER / AND / CORAINE and a bunch of others :) So we have many many
many people to thank for making this happen :)   Thanks everyone! :)

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