[Talk-ca] Forests and water multipolygons in Canvec

[nicholas ingalls]

That's typically what I do as well. I've noticed the same problem
throughout much of the canvec data I've worked with.

Cheers,
ingalls


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Sam Dyck <samueldyck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm currently working on importing Canvec tile 063I05. I noticed that the
> islands in the Nelson River (of which there are many) have the forest area
> offset significantly from the inner way for water. This means that the area
> boundaries are offset, even though the geometry is almost identical, This
> creates forests that stretch several metres into the Nelson.
>
> I've been deleting the forest areas and adding forest tagging into the
> water areas, which is probably better than the two identical ways sharing
> nodes approach usually seen in Canvec data. The offset appears consistent,
> so I thought it should be noted in case it can be fixed.
>
>
> Sam
>
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