[Talk-ca] Importing CanVec – Worth it?

[James]

the issue with Canvec is the "hole" in the forest relation needs to be
merged down with the water features, be it wetlands/marshes/lakes etc.

OSM/JOSM considers it an error to have overlapping polygons, so you need to
delete the "forest hole" and add the lake/wetland to the forest relation as
an inner polygon.

Super annoying and tedious, wish there was a more automated way to merge
them down

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 12:17 PM John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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