[Talk-ca] Fwd: GeoBase vs CanVec

Brendan Morley morb.gis at beagle.com.au
Wed Sep 1 13:33:11 BST 2010


On 24/08/2010 1:56 AM, john whelan wrote:
> The CANVEC tiles contain the full street name.  Ottawa has a number of
> streets that were imported from Geobase that did not include a street
> name, contained abbreviation or only part of the name.
>
> This maybe because of the way the import was done but the CANVEC data
> seemed cleaner in this regard.
>
> Cheerio John
>
>    

For a given street segment, does the CanVec and GeoBase versions carry 
the same "nid"?  Or can you only match on the Hausdorff distance?

(I'm talking about the original data sets, not just the way they were 
imported into OSM.)

>    
>> Brendan
>>
>> On 21/08/2010 9:52 AM, Brendan Morley wrote:
>>      
>>> Hello Canadian mappers,
>>>
>>> Sam Vekemans suggested I ask the following here:
>>>
>>> What is the relationship between CanVec data and GeoBase data?
>>>
>>>        




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