[Talk-ca] Converted Stats Can Boundaries files.

[Michael Barabanov]

For my area, I've asked one of the previous boundary mappers of the source
of info, it was cantopo (plus I got an OK to replace the data).  It should
be good to ask other people who added boundaries.

Overall, I think boundaries are very different from other mapping, as those
are not "on-the-ground".  If there's a consistent source of data, it should
be used preferentially to one-offs. We just don't have enough local people
to cover all the vast spaces in Canada.

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Sam Vekemans
> <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi talk-ca,
> > because it is an entire complex web of relations, were 1 way has 2 or
> > more relations attached to it, i'd recomment the solution on the wiki,
> > if we want to preserve the rule that all bountaries need to be
> > relations.
> >
> > then the 1st task is the look at the povince file, and remove the
> > existing boundary data that will cause duplicate ways.
>
> I presume you mean "keep the existing data and don't use the duplicate
> data from the file."
>
> > then once each province is all clear, then 1 person can upload it all at
> once.
>
> Come on now, you aren't really suggesting removing existing boundary
> data just to add it back in, are you?  That doesn't sound very
> considerate of the previous mappers.
>
> Have you looked at the relative technical merits of the existing
> boundary data and the StatsCan data Tyler just converted?  Are they
> from the same source, or is one of provably lower quality?
>
> How about starting with a smaller test than a complete province?
> Would anyone care to take a look at their neigbourhood and the related
> and adjacent boundaries?
>
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