[Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries

[Kevin Farrugia]

Canada Post can be ignored, luckily, when it comes to municipal boundaries.
statscan's municipal boundaries are handy because it's country-wide and we
have a license agreement with them.

I don't think the boundaries with be an import in the true sense, more of a
guide that allows us to more easily create the boundaries.

In Ontario anyways boundaries usually follow roads and rivers so it's a
case of adding these to a boundary relation with the assistance of StatsCan
data.

On Mar 9, 2017 9:14 AM, "john whelan" <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> and just to add to the confusion Canada Post has its own set of rules.
> For example my official Canada Post address is Orleans yet no such
> municipality or town has ever existed.  There are other examples of Canada
> Post giving areas names.
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 9 March 2017 at 08:55, Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kevin -
>>
>> > CSDs are legal boundaries - I.e. the legal boundary of a lower tier
>> > municipality.
>>
>> I was a bit confused by terminology - I thought that Bjenk was referring
>> to LCTs. The one I live in looks like this:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/scruss/e4778dfc3a0ea5261581e688c4332c93
>>
>> It's bounded by Eglinton Ave East, the Stouffville rail line, Corvette
>> Ave, Kennedy Rd, St Clair Ave East, the old GECO rail spur, and finally
>> Kennedy Rd again.
>>
>> There's nothing to say that you're in this area (ward?), and as it's
>> designated by boundary ways, any import relation would have to map on to
>> the existing ways in OSM, and not StatCan's data. Even though many of
>> our ways are based on earlier imports of Federal data, there isn't a
>> perfect match. To StatCan, Eglinton Ave East is just a line. To us, it's
>> multiple separated ways.
>>
>> I don't believe that these divisions belong in OSM, even although they
>> have legal definition for census use.
>>
>>  Stewart
>>
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