[Talk-ca] Railways duplicated in CanVec data

[Frank Steggink]

@Daniel:

I finally got around to add a few more issues to the page mentioned by 
Adam last week. I'm not sure if you or anyone else also encountered 
them, but here they are:

    * Some roads are tagged as "highway=unclasified" (with one 's').
      These are mostly linking roads, and usually have the name "Voie"
      (in Quebec)
    * Most, if not all, road names (in highways and address nodes) have
      multiple consecutive spaces.
    * Some buildings are tagged as "highway=services" (with an 's' in
      the end), usually service stations near motorways.
    * (and another thing: the JOSM validator is complaning that many
      water areas should be reversed)

Another thing I'm missing is names on large rivers, which are added as 
natural=water (multi)polygons. Is there a way to get those names, or 
perhaps would it be possible to generate centerlines (which can be 
tagged with waterway=river; name=*)? I've attempted to draw a few 
centerlines myself, but it's very time-consuming.

I also wonder if there is any sight on an improved release of the Canvec 
OSM product, which has improved many of the known issues of the current 
release. I'm also still thinking about how to deal with road names, and 
Canvec vs. Geobase roads in general in Quebec. It's not clear how to 
proceed with that, especially since the "boots on the ground" option is 
nearly impossible.

Other than that I'm still very glad with the offerings given by the NRCan :)

Frank

On 11-05-29 03:10 AM, Adam Dunn wrote:
> Indeed. In fact, this issue has already been listed on the wiki page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CanVec#CanVec_7
> :)
>
> Adam
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Samuel Longiaru<longiaru at shaw.ca>  wrote:
>> I've been importing in south central BC and have noticed that there is a
>> consistent duplication of railway = rail ways in the CanVec data.  No big
>> deal as if I forget, it is caught by the validator, but there must be a
>> glitch somewhere in converting to OSM?
>>
>> Thanks
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