[Talk-ca] Converted Stats Can Boundaries files.

[Michael Barabanov]

Answering my own question.. no, doesn't seem like GeoBase contains
boundaries for cities (
http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/admin/index.html).
So StatsCan seems to be the only source of vector data for this?

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Michael Barabanov <
michael.barabanov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> Are you saying that GeoBase actually contains (let's say) city
> boundaries/names, and those are probably geometrically more accurate?
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Bégin, Daniel <
> Daniel.Begin at rncan-nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
>
>> I agree with Richard,
>>
>> Here is more information...
>>
>> The first Osm Canadian/Provinces/Territories boundaries were imported from
>> GeoBase in 2008 - actually the original contributor just confirmed me.
>>  These imported GeoBase boundaries were, and still being used, for GeoBase
>> products definition - NRN, NHN, ...
>>
>> I understand that one of the primary objective for StatCan, creating
>> similar boundaries, is to make census field work easier - not necessarily
>> geometrically accurate!  So, their boundaries might be different from
>> GeoBase boundaries - and Osm - because it serves another purpose.
>>
>> The same applies to many georeferenced StatCan products, like Road Network
>> ...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: talk-ca-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:
>> talk-ca-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Richard Weait
>> Sent: 23 juillet 2010 12:37
>> To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
>> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Converted Stats Can Boundaries files.
>>
>> 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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