[Talk-ca] Canadian imports: good or bad?

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Mon Apr 16 02:36:29 BST 2012


On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Steve Singer <steve at ssinger.info> wrote:

> I think the question posed in the subject 'good or bad' is the wrong one. Is
> there a way we can have our cake and eat it too?  [ ... ]

I hope so.  I like cake. :-)

> When I was doing license replacement for roads I found it easier/faster to
> just trace over the GeoBase WMS layer(I don't consider that 'importing').

Neither do I.  More like "referring to an external resource".  Even if
we include the tracing you describe as importing, it would be very
hard to describe it as a "bulk" import.

The combination of geoBase WMS and nice aerial imagery is wonderful.

> When I had to replace some lakes I found copy/pasting the features from the
> Canvec .OSM files produced a much better result (importing?).

Perhaps "importing" but not the "bulk importing" I intended in my
original question.

Steve listed these:

We have tried 95% automated bulk imports (ie the road imports I did in
Alberta and Ontario)

We have had mappers import an entire Canvec tile at once via JOSM

We have had mappers import a feature at a time in a single canvec (or
and other sources) tile

I think each of those is a "bulk import" operation.

Let's carry on with the discussion.  :-)



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