[Talk-ca] CanTopo!

[Tyler Gunn]

> For those of you who have been under a rock about Merkaarator, (like
> me) the editing tool is very good.
> It allows nice viewing of WMS layers, which seems to be better than
JOSM.

So out of curiosity, does Markaator allow direct opening of the TIFF
files?  JOSM doesn't seem to allow this.
What procedure would be involved in aligning these TIFFs to reality?  


> Whats surprising, is that the area which is the Capital Region
> District boundary, as well as the backroads are actually available. 
> This significant for  ALL of Canada, because it means that there is no
> need to approach the cities about data, until these CanTopo &
> CanMatrix PDFs and TIFFs have been fully exhausted.
> So on top of the CanVec data, that were all looking forward to seeing,
> we can further detail the OSM map with this stuff.

Would the CanVec data not include all of this data?  Or is it a completely
separate data set?

I took at look at the TIFF for Portage La Prairie in MB (near me):
ftp://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/cantopo/50k_tif/062/g/cantopo_062g16_tif.zip
I did notice the city boundaries in there.  Hmm, that's always good to
see...  :)  The data is out there, we just need to find it.

Tyler