[Talk-ca] Stats Canada new building outlines Open Data do we wish to import it?

[John Whelan]

I know the City of Kingston are very interested in the project but they 
aren't the ones who can make the decision.

Cheerio John

James wrote on 2018-11-02 4:07 PM:
> From my initial glance at the data...seems pretty good and 
> accurate(again I didn't check all the cities nor do I expect them all 
> to be having same level of accuracy)
>
> The two I've been eye balling are Kingston and Rimouski which seem to 
> be very accurate at first assessment. If we do want to import them, a 
> formal draft up will have to be done though
>
> On Fri., Nov. 2, 2018, 3:53 p.m. john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     This is just a formal post to get a feel.
>
>     In Ottawa the building outlines were of high quality and I feel
>     have enriched the map.
>
>     If we do should we consider it one project across the country or
>     leave it to the local chapters to make the decision?
>
>     I'm thinking that Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver certainly have
>     local groups of mappers. There maybe others.
>
>     The other thing to consider is there are remote locations that may
>     not have a group of local mappers so taking a country wide stance
>     would not leave these locations in limbo.
>
>     Taking the decision across the country would mean only one import
>     plan and approval and after the Ottawa experience with
>     OpenStreetMap import red tape it might be easier than a dozen or
>     so different import plans.
>
>     I'm not thinking of the mechanics of the import yet.  That is a
>     different issue.
>
>     If you could reply saying you think its a good idea or shouldn't
>     be touched with a barge pole also if you could indicate country
>     wide or leave it to the local groups to make the decision I would
>     be grateful.
>
>     Thanks John
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