Hi all,
A quick update for you all for whats going on on the talk-ca list.

The Canadian Geopolitical boundaries database has been imported, it was done just before new years. ... this covers for the provincial boundaries. :)

Samples for test areas is going great, using a Roadmatcher program were it only shows roads which are not present in OSM, so then work would be needed to manually merge in the data.

We have had more discussion with the Source of the Data (Natural Resources Canada), trying to figure out how they can help, and to answer all questions and keep discussion going.

I'm working on the chart of the OSM Map Features list
osm.wiki/CanVec_OSM_Map_Features
so far there are 311 different map features, in the set of 11 distribution themes of CanVec. These themes match up with the GeoBase data.

For most of these map features, we already have an OSM tag standard. But for some of it, we will need to make up some new tags... tag:extentions.

Right now, the listing is rather mixed... so dont bother trying to fix it. I still need to add in there all of the feature descriptions.

Thats all for now,
Cheers,
Sam Vekemans
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