[Talk-ca] Canvec.osm Product -Completed!

[steggink at steggink.org]

Salut Daniel,

Thanks for the great work. Yes, I'm still following the Canvec  
progress. Maybe I'll upload some of the Quebec City area sheets :)

Regarding toponyms, for the Dutch landuse import we had a similar  
issue. It wasn't that natural=land is hiding other features, because  
it's painted on top (that should be logged in trac, b.t.w.). The old  
landuse data (part of the AND import, which mostly contained the road  
network) has some information, like names, which we would like to keep.

For this we used a toponym tag, like toponym=forest, toponym=park,  
toponym=cemetery. There isn't a concrete proposal for it, although  
I've considered writing it for quite a while now. (There is no really  
good alternative, but there are tags like mountain, valley, region,  
and many more to assign names to non-administrative areas.) We just  
use the toponym tag as a way to keep the name in place. The name  
applies to an entire area, so IMHO it isn't correct to replace it by a  
point feature. In addition to it, since all features are considered  
linear features by default in OSM, we put the tag area=yes on it, so  
the name gets rendered in the middle. The name already gets rendered,  
as long as it doesn't collide with other labels.

Cheers,

Frank

Quoting "Bégin, Daniel" <Daniel.Begin at RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca>:

> Bonjour OSMers!
>
> Canvec.osm Product conversion is completed - except for 31 files   
> that should be reprocessed in the following weeks - see the list at   
> the end of this email.
>
> What's new ...
> - The vegetation has been updated for some areas in eastern Canada.
> - Quebec road network now includes addressing;
> - Manitoba road network now includes street name;
>
> Schema upgrade ...
> - landform=beach replaced by natural=beach - for rendering
> - aeroway=runway replaced by aeroway=apron - more realistic
> - natural=land area converted to point - unhide features and keeps toponyms
> - Some fixme comments were clarified
>
> Identified problems ...
> - Tagging error on school/prison that will be fixed on next release.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
> Files not processed
> 002E13
> 011D12
> 012A07
> 012P08
> 023G16
> 023J09
> 031M08
> 042J15
> 042O01
> 042P12
> 043B02
> 043F09
> 043G03
> 043G04
> 043G15
> 043K06
> 043L08
> 043L13
> 043M01
> 043N02
> 043N04
> 052L15
> 053J04
> 053P13
> 053P14
> 062F14
> 063C03
> 063N07
> 082G01
> 083G02
> 095C14
>
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