[Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries

[James]

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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:31 AM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In purple/black CSD 2016, in gold Gatineau's city limits from their open
> data portal:
> http://i.imgur.com/undefined.png
>
> The CSDs do not match up with actual city bounds
>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Bjenk Ellefsen <bjenk.ellefsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing: Census Divisions
>> are higher level and more regional boundaries. CSDs are municipal
>> boundaries (in OSM, level 8).  http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/s
>> ubjects/standard/sgc/2011/sgc-intro
>>
>> Can you give me an example of city limits that don't match a CSD or is
>> not in the SGC? Usually, the standard for municipal boundaries are the
>> CSDs. At least, as far as I know, this is the standard geography. When
>> referring to actual city limits, which geographical classification is it
>> referring to?
>>
>> Sorry for the questions, I am trying to understand what is the
>> classification used if its not the CSDs.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:11 AM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Bernie, I've also noticed that StatsCan boundaries seem to be a
>>> generalization of an area vs the actual city limits
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Bernie Connors <berniejconnors at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bjenk,
>>>>
>>>>       In NB there are issues with some census boundaries not matching
>>>> with our administrative boundaries. The issue I am aware of was with the
>>>> county boundaries. The census data that is analogous to our county
>>>> boundaries included some significant deviations to prevent a municipality
>>>> from being bisected by a county boundary. Please be careful that there is
>>>> not a similar issue with the CSD boundaries. NB municipal boundaries can be
>>>> downloaded from the GeoNB Data Catalogue For comparison to the CSD data.
>>>>
>>>> Bernie.
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network.
>>>> *From: *Bjenk Ellefsen
>>>> *Sent: *Tuesday, March 7, 2017 9:51 AM
>>>> *To: *talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
>>>> *Subject: *[Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Municipal boundaries correspond to census subdivisions (CSD). I have
>>>> seen that many municipalities do not have a boundary yet. Is it ok if I
>>>> start adding some boundaries based on CSDs? Having the boundaries is
>>>> important to make extractions and analysis at the municipal level.
>>>>
>>>> Bjenk
>>>>
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