[Talk-ca] Building Import

[John Whelan]

Are you talking about the older CANVEC data or the data that Stats has 
released which is really municipal data?

Thanks John

Begin Daniel wrote on 2019-03-28 8:31 AM:
> Someone has compared Bing and Canvec data in rural areas?
>
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> *From:* OSM Volunteer stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 27, 2019 11:52:02 PM
> *To:* Talk-ca
> *Cc:* keith hartley
> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import
> Ah, good dialog ensues.  Municipality by municipality, in conjunction 
> with BOTH the StatsCan and Bing data, the right things are getting 
> noticed, the right things are getting human-realized at what the next 
> steps are to do.  It gets better.
>
> Yay.  Stitch it together.  One municipality at a time.  One province 
> at a time.  Pretty soon, after a few revisions of data and 
> back-and-forths between municipalities and province-wide data 
> checking, you've got something.  There, you go.
>
> SteveA
>
> > On Mar 27, 2019, at 8:23 PM, keith hartley <keith.a.hartley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > The patchwork of municipalities is at least useful, before we didn't have a framework for adding this data, but at least we do now 
> thanks to the umbrella license @ Stats Canada. We're a big country 
> with very few, but very skilled OSM mappers (IE gecho111 mapped all of 
> regina's building footprints! ).
> > 
> > I like the concept of the Bing data, but they may have to do another few tries, or maybe retain their Neural network. - Is there 
> anywhere where the Bing data looks nice? I found burbs in Winnipeg not 
> bad, but there's some really weird elements when the source data is 
> too simple (buildings in the middle of fields) or too complex (urban 
> cores)
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 6:29 AM John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The Stats Canada data comes from the municipalities.  Unfortunately there are over 3,000 in Canada so yes ideally each would be treated 
> separately in reality each municipality doesn't have a group of 
> skilled OSM mappers who are capable of setting up an import plan and 
> doing the work although there is nothing to stop them doing so.
> > 
> > Cheerio John
>
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