[Talk-ca] unnamed roads

[john whelan]

CANVEC has some road names in it for some provinces and areas.  However
cities do change street names over time and currently there seems to be a
desire to remove all CANVEC data from OpenStreetMap.

Cheerio John

On 1 September 2016 at 18:31, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My colleagues created a set of MapRoulette challenges for Canada
> recently, based on various topology checks. A lot of them need work
> still, but I was curious about one in particular, the 'Unnamed Roads'.
> Example: http://maproulette.org/map/341/363201
>
> Is it possible to fix these without on-the-ground knowledge? Is there a
> names layer available similar to TIGER in the US? If not, can we help
> create such a layer? (I tried the Geobase Roads WMS layer but that
> doesn't really seem to have roads in it, nor does the Canvec layer)
>
> Thanks for helping me figure out how to make this useful!
> If you have ideas based on your mapping experience what common errors
> are that would impede routing  / navigation let me know.
> --
>   Martijn van Exel
>   m at rtijn.org
>
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