[Talk-ca] Hydro Network (inland water) question

[john whelan]

The federal government's open data license has been formally approved by
the legal working group.

Steve in California appears to be volunteering to do some mapping.

I have no doubt the flack from Europe will start up again but it is an
ongoing import that the Canadian local community has been doing for some
years and as John said is still progressing.  It's just as James says there
are the odd million lakes that change shape from time to time and without
Steve's assistance we haven't been progressing as fast as we might have.
In fact to be honest the Geobase data is so far out of date we might be
better off without it.

Quebec mappers certainly are into importing bus stops at the moment.  I
know the Ottawa mappers have done a very nice job in Ottawa with importing
bus stops.

I vote we send Steve out with a GPS device and a canoe and he can do some
tracks round the shorelines then bring them into the map.

Cheerio John

On 27 September 2018 at 20:10, Andrew <andrew.allison at teksavvy.com> wrote:

> Does any body know what the current status / feeling is about doing
> Canvec Imports?
>
>         I had received less then favorable feed back last time I was
> doing imports? (From across the pond mostly)
>
>         Andrew
>         aka Canvec Imports
>
>
> On Thu, 2018-09-27 at 16:55 -0700, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
> > Heck, all kinds of things are fun to map:  bike routes, railways,
> > making sure provincial and TransCanada route relations are all lined
> > up and tagged correctly, bus and public_transport, small details
> > (micro-mapping), like gymnasium/library details and drinking fountain
> > locations in elementary/middle/high schools, it's almost endless.
> >
> > Now, all the bodies of water in Canada, the 2nd largest geographic
> > country on Earth, and with "hundreds" (you can grow it to thousands,
> > I know you can) of dedicated mappers:  wow, that is something I'd
> > call "you've got your work cut out for you!"
> >
> > I mean that to be encouraging rather than discouraging.  OSM, it
> > seems (and I've been at it most of its life) is a longer-term
> > project, it's really only starting to fly after fifteen years or
> > so.  Give it a few more decades (really), and even in a few years, it
> > does, can and will get better.  It takes time, it takes dedication,
> > it takes good communication, it takes people working well
> > together.  Largely speaking (and Canada isn't large, it's HUGE!), so
> > far, so good.
> >
> > Encouragingly,
> > SteveA
> > California
> >
> > > On Sep 27, 2018, at 4:42 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > Besides bus stops are more fun to map.
> >
> >
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