[Talk-ca] Importing CanVec – Worth it?

John Whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 16:14:07 UTC 2022


I'd tend to just import and ignore the errors.  An area can be both 
wetland and wood.  Errors do get sorted out over time.

Cheerio John

William Davis via Talk-ca wrote on 8/31/2022 11:56 AM:
> On 2022-08-31 03:02, William Davis via Talk-ca wrote:
>> I've been looking at the osm homepage a lot recently and the big 
>> blocks of white space next to the green CanVec imports look really 
>> ugly, especially when compared to New Brunswick. I've tried importing 
>> CanVec data in the past (about 2 years ago), which did not end well 
>> since I had barely used JOSM before then. People also seemed to 
>> always be complaining about how hard and annoying it was to import 
>> CanVec data, even in completely blank areas, such as up north.
>>
>> So I guess my question is whether it is worth trying to import CanVec 
>> data over improving my local area, especially since it seems the OSM 
>> Canada community as a whole has given up on that idea.
>>
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> I've tried importing some data, but I'm just not experienced enough to 
> know what to do with all the different errors that the CanVec data 
> contains, especially when I try and do something outside of the north.
> Does anyone here have experience importing canvec? The error I get 
> most often that I don't know how to solve is when there are duplicate 
> ways with different tags (e.g. natural=wood and natural=wetland).
>
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