[Talk-ca] CFB Borden and Meaford

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Fri Aug 3 18:45:32 BST 2012


On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Harald Kliems <kliems at gmail.com> wrote:
>> While browsing the map I noticed that the CFBs Borden and Meaford show
>> up on the standard Mapnik mak in very low zoom levels (z=6).
>>
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.28&lon=-80.06&zoom=6&layers=M
>>
>> The reason appears to be that they're tagged as place=city.
>
> That sounds wrong.
>
> landuse=military
> name="Canadian Forces Base Borden"
>
> or similar would be correct and should provide no surprises for data
> consumers. :-)
>
> adding those to a perimeter, even if it is an imperfect perimeter,
> would be a good start.

I see that both of those have military areas already.  I've deleted
the errant city nodes and I'll send a note to the mapper who created
them.



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