[Talk-ca] Importing CanVec – Worth it?

[john whelan]

One technique is to bring the data into JOSM on a separate layer.  Run
validation on it and delete anything marked invalid.  Then if there is
anything left import it.

Cheerio John

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 11:59 William Davis via Talk-ca <
talk-ca at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> 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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