[Talk-ca] Suivi OSM / OSM Monitoring

[James Ewen]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Pierre Béland <infosbelas-gps at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Geobase provides various administrative boundaries. See
> http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/admin/index.html
>
> The municipal boundaries (admin_level=8) are provided by each province.
> Admin_level 6 is also available for Ontario. The Shape files have to be
> converted to OSM.

Are there instructions on how to do that?

> Looking at the history of your Lamont county way, I see that is also part of
> Strathcona county relation. This polygon is also broken. See
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/50382
> A good mess! Many new mappers don't know about relations and don't care when
> asked if they want to delete even if the way is part of a relation.

That's the actual county definition that I was talking about... I only
found part of the way, and not the whole relation.

I still don't know enough about relations and the rest to be able to
get things straightened around properly.

-- 
James
VE6SRV