[Talk-ca] Bringing canvec to OSM back to life

Chris Davis davis.christopher at gmail.com
Sat Nov 15 06:55:52 UTC 2014


I think it would be great to see newer CanVec data in OSM as well. BC's
vegetation coverage from the last import in 2010 (tagged as
"natural":"wood") is horribly patchy and quite ugly in the OSM basemap and
other maps.

Chris

On 14 November 2014 18:25, Darren Wiebe <darren at aleph-com.net> wrote:

> I can only address point 4.  I'd love to see newer Canvec data.
>
> *Darren Wiebe*
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Andrew <andrew.allison at teksavvy.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello List:
>>
>>         Given Daniel's reply that Canvec will no longer be supplied in OSM
>> format, I'm curious about:
>>
>> 1:      I don't know what I don't know to begin with :-)
>> 2:      Are the scripts / programs available to do the conversion still
>> available?
>> 3:      Was there ever a program written to produce a "diffs" file?
>> 4:      Is there a desire to have newer Canvec data converted to OSM?
>>
>>         Just throwing this out there.
>>
>>         Andrew
>>         aka CanvecImports
>>
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