[Talk-ca] [Imports] Importing CanVec better?
Clifford Snow
clifford at snowandsnow.us
Mon Oct 15 21:03:42 GMT 2012
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Maury Markowitz
<maury.markowitz at gmail.com>wrote:
> Newb here, so I hope this is the right place to ask. I also posted on one
> of the wiki talk pages, but I didn't know if anyone goes there.
>
> I have noticed that vectors imported from the CanVec database are split at
> grid boundaries. This means that large objects like roads or lakes are
> split into multiple parts in OSM.
>
> I strongly suspect that there is a way to re-integrate these into single
> objects, which would greatly improve things (case in point, the cottage
> would no longer be on a three-part lake :-)
>
> As this data is automatically imported, is this the right place to discuss
> this?
>
Roads I can understand. Breaking roads into manageable segments makes
sense. But lakes? Can you give a link to the three part lake?
Clifford
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