[Talk-ca] Importing MLI park boundaries

[Samuel Dyck]

Let me clarify, will the so called tainted data still be up for the near 
future, or will I be spending my week preforming hectic Canvec imports 
to save street names I gathered with a pen and paper? It doesn't look 
good for me 
<http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/?zoom=12&lat=49.88177&lon=-97.17517&layers=B0>.

Sam Dyck

On 11-03-25 10:56 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:
> That is upto the OpenStreetMap Foundation to decide on what todo, as
> they will effectivelly 'own' all the rights to the data, including all
> tainted data.
> We (as a community) do not have a say in this matter, unfortunatly.
> cc'd the lists,
> it's up to them to reply back.
>
>
> cheers,
> sam
>
> On 3/25/11, Samuel Dyck<samueldyck at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Thanks Sam, that saves me a lot of work. Is all the "tainted" data
>>    being removed Friday, or just yours?
>>
>> Sam
>> On 11-03-25 10:29 PM, Sam Vekemans wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> The National Parks data will be removed from the osm api next friday,
>>> as it will be considered 'tainted data' since the person who uploaded
>>> the data doesn't agree to the new contributor terms.
>>> This helps, as it makes it easier to add in the Manitoba parks data.
>>>
>>>
>>> Since knowone volunteered, the conversion script for the MLI data will
>>> be availbale on github :)
>>> and the shape files on koordinates.com
>>>
>>> Soon(TM)
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> sam
>>>
>>> On 3/25/11, Samuel Dyck<samueldyck at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>>> Hi Everyone
>>>>
>>>> The Canvec data for MB provincial park boundaries is horribly inaccurate
>>>> and this bothers me greatly. The government of Manitoba offers good
>>>> boundary data and a bunch of other cool stuff though the Manitoba Lands
>>>> Initiative, which I believe we can use, but I've never converted
>>>> Shapefiles to an API 0.6 compatible osm file (or at all really). How
>>>> would I best do this?
>>>>
>>>> Sam Dyck
>>>>
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