[Talk-ca] Fixme Files

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Bégin, Daniel
<Daniel.Begin at rncan-nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
> Bonjour Osmers
>
> First, a few personal news...
> I am currently transferring my files to François and Nicolas who will take over with the Openstreetmap community. François is already an Osm contributor and Nicolas might soon be a contributor as well.
>
> This is not bad news for me as I will soon retire from NRCan and move to St-John's to start a PhD. As someone said ... "Go East Old Man!" - or something like this !-)

Dear Daniel,

Congratulations!  Thank you for acting as our interface with NRCan.
It has been a pleasure to meet you and discuss data over the last few
years.

We look forward to your changesets in the St. Johns area.  :-)

merci beaucoup!
Richard

> Now, about fixme files...
> - As pointed out by Pnorman, some of the fixme files aren't zipped with related .osm : It will be fixed
> - The comparison isn't picking up on "highway=unclassified" : I'll see what can be done to make it run properly.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Unclassified

I keep having to remind myself that, in OpenStreetMap,
highway=unclassified has a special meaning.  Ordinarily, I would
expect "unclassified" to mean "we don't know enough abut this object."
 But in OSM, highway=unclassified means "this is a low importance road
and it is not exclusively residential".

> Nicolas should work on it next week. Then, If the community agree, available fixme files will then be included with the corresponding Canvec.osm zip files.
>
> Finally, the entire Canvec content will eventually be processed the same way. I think it will be very helpful to the community and to NRCan!

Wonderful.  We look forward to hearing more from François and Nicolas.

Best regards,
Richard