[Talk-ca] Microsoft has released its building outlines for Canada

[John Whelan]

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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