[Talk-ca] Railways duplicated in CanVec data

[Bégin, Daniel]

Bonjour Frank,

Thank for the comments. I'll see what can be done. 

I have been assigned to some other projects. I'll try to keep in touch with the community (as NRCan contact) but I'm not in charge of the Canvec conversion process anymore.

I should transfer the process to someone else but he/she has not been identified yet. I will be there to help correcting the process using comments I received by email and the page mentioned by Adam.

Cheers!

Daniel



-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Steggink [mailto:steggink at steggink.org] 
Sent: May 29, 2011 04:18
To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Railways duplicated in CanVec data

@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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