[Talk-ca] [Imports] Importing CanVec better?

[Andrew Allison]

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 14:03 -0700, Clifford Snow wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 :-)
>         
For me personally, it's all by hand. download an area and start joining

>         As this data is automatically imported, is this the right
>         place to discuss this?

I wouldn't say any import I'm doing is automated.
1 Load canvec data
2 delete roads from canvec
3 download map and merge
4 Wait for a message from someone when I mess up :-)
5 and repeat
> 
> 
> Roads I can understand. Breaking roads into manageable segments makes
> sense. But lakes? Can you give a link to the three part lake?  
> 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.23&lon=-79.638&zoom=11&layers=M

Next to North Bay is multi part lake, I'm afraid to touch it see point 4


Andrew

aka PurpleMustang, CanvecImports

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