[Talk-ca] Forests/Land Use, was: Canvec reverts
Paul Norman
penorman at mac.com
Fri Sep 2 04:11:30 UTC 2016
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.
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