[Talk-ca] Microsoft has released its building outlines for Canada
John Whelan
jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 3 00:31:06 UTC 2019
I would concur in general but any import needs the agreement of local
mappers and I think we have to define who they are first.
Cheerio John
Danny McDonald wrote on 2019-03-02 7:23 PM:
> Just looking at the data for some random areas, it looks like the
> quality is comparable to hand-drawn buildings (but not as good as most
> municipal data). There are some weirdly rotated and sized buildings,
> as well as some missing buildings, there may be other problems in
> areas I haven't examined.
> A few comments:
> - The StatsCan data is of better quality, it should be used instead of
> the Microsoft data when possible.
> - Existing hand-drawn/imported buildings should not be replaced by the
> Microsoft data (except for CanVec buildings, maybe).
> - In any import, the bigger provinces should be split into smaller
> areas (counties or regions)
> DannyMcD
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