[Talk-ca] Importing CanVec – Worth it?

[John Whelan]

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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>> William Davis
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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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