[Talk-ca] Forests/Land Use, was: Canvec reverts

[Paul Norman]

On 9/1/2016 8:17 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> I'm "glad" to see someone else w/ this issue. It's glancingly related 
> to the canvec import issue, since the land use polygons are a source 
> of some of the issues the reverter is complaining about (malformed 
> multipolygons / boundary overlaps).
>
> In my own work in my old home town of Prince George, I've constantly 
> wanted to just plain delete the "urban area" land use polygon (which 
> doesn't seem to correspond in any way to the actual urban area of the 
> present) and the forest polygons (which have the same problem).

I get frequent complaints about CanVec forest data in OSM from people 
who would like to use OSM data but don't. It is only usable as a low 
resolution landcover layer (z4-z10 or so) and if someone wanted that, 
there are better data sources they can use.