[Talk-ca] canvec and other external sources

[Bégin, Daniel]

Bonjour Richard,

I've modified my scripts to produce .osm files having the appropriate xml tag...
<osm version='0.6' upload='false'>.

I'll introduce it in the Canvec.osm conversion process later today. Eventually, all of Canvec.osm files - Release 10 and later - will be processed that way.

Thanks to Paul

Best regards,
Daniel



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Weait [mailto:richard at weait.com] 
Sent: April 9, 2012 09:20
To: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
Subject: [Talk-ca] canvec and other external sources

Dear all,

Paul Norman pointed this out to me.

If canvec, or other external source data is created as an osm file, with

<osm version='0.6' upload='false'>
instead of the ordinary
<osm version="0.6">

that will protect a mapper who uses that data from a class of embarrassing accidents.  When using a canvec file for reference, a mapper might have several file layers open in JOSM.  Pressing upload with the wrong layer selected may upload data that was not intended or that duplicates existing data.  upload="false" gives the mapper another chance to catch their error.  A dialogue box is presented before uploading a layer based on a file with upload="false".

To be clear, the data can still be uploaded.  Another warning is offered before the upload so that the mapper can double-check the action.

Do we agree that this would be an improvement to the CanVec data?
Daniel, would you consider making this change for future CanVec product?

Best regards,
Richard

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