Talk:Canada

Information Update ?

Most of the sections are out-of-date, updates are required. Instead of duplicating information, the “Importing government data” section should link to appropriate wiki pages (e.g. Potential Datasources, Import/Catalogue, Import/Guidelines), including those described in “Open Data” section. The Import projects should also be moved to appropriate wiki pages and replaced by a link to these pages. I will make the changes if no one complains :-)

Trans Canada Trail

Why is the TCT to be mapped as a regional cycle network (NCN), when it is a national trail? —Michael Z. 2012-08-13 20:20 z

It looks like in practice, the TCT is mapped as an NCN. I will update the page. —Michael Z. 2013-09-28 19:09 z

What page (wiki?) is being spoken of here? Is there a TCT wiki, or only the section in this wiki? As the coordinator of the WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System, speaker at national conferences on the topic and consultant to other international bicycle-oriented OSM volunteers, I have mapped and agree that the TCT should continue to be mapped as province-wide relations tagged route=bicycle + network=ncn, as TCT is a national bicycle route. It is also a "national trail" as Mzajac asserts above, so there should also be a hiking route (perhaps with identical elements as the bicycle route) tagged as route=hiking + network=nwn. Of course, it is possible for member elements to be tagged differently, where (for example) a way might be tagged highway=cycleway + foot=yes (bicycles "preferred," hikers OK) and included in both relations, or it may be highway=footway + bicycle=yes (hikers "preferred," bicycles OK) and again, included in both relations. A useful rendering is here. Stevea (talk) 20:50, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

To complicate this discussion a bit further some sections are route=horse shared equally with route=bicycle and route=hiking (TCT: Cypress Hills: SK: West Block: High-vista Trail is mtb/hiking/horse for example). And some TCT sections are route=canoe mixed with motorboat=yes (SK's Mission Lake and Katepwa Lake regions for example). Yes the TCT is nominally a route=bicycle, but to travel the full length requires a canoe and a bicycle (probably a mtb instead of just a road bicycle) while dodging some motorboats and fresh horse turds. --EGrawlix (talk) 08:35, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

I was updating TCT Saskatchewan and I created route=canoe routes and added them before encountering this wiki page (sorry). The names of the route=canoe segments all begin with name=Trans Canada Trail (Waterways and I gave them the role=canoe in the parent TCT Saskatchewan superrelation so they are easy to identify and remove if they are causing harm. I also gave the land portions role=bicycle and added role=slipway route nodes connecting the role=bicycle and role=canoe. Oh and I also added network=npn and route=canoe to the Sask and full Canada superroutes. Again all this was maybe a mistake, sorry. I was just trying to make the TCT's actual use more well documented. Personally I think route=canoe sections be included somehow otherwise TCT has some massive gaps, but maybe this was the wrong way to go about it.

I also added route symbols that I hope are compatible license wise (or fall under the "logo consisting of text or simple shapes" exception). They can be found at Key:wiki:symbol#Canada and hopefully will remain useful even if my route=canoe changes need to be removed. I'm assuming the superroutes should use the most recent version of the symbol and that smaller routes or ways should ideally be marked with whatever symbol is used along that length. --EGrawlix (talk) 07:13, 30 June 2024 (UTC) Edit: Just noticed network=npn does not have its own wiki page, but it is documented on the route=canoe page --EGrawlix (talk) 07:16, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

TCT Sask (and TCT Cypress Hills AB): I split the TCT Sask routes into smaller, more manageable (both for editing and for travelling) route lengths that usually start and stop at (or near) a named city, town, or park that hopefully has a few amenities available. I also made a TCT Cypress Hills Interprov. Park superroute that bundles the TCT Cypress Hills SK + AB segments together since they join only to each other and don't (currently) connect anywhere near the main TCT route line. Hopefully these are both useful changes, but I can undo them if there was a reason for the long route segments that existed before. --EGrawlix (talk) 07:50, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

Saints in street names in Ontario

Hello,

I have started a discussion about "St." in street names like "St. Clair Avenue" on the talk-ca mailing list. I am suggesting that contrary to current practice in Toronto (at least), it should not be expanded to "Saint Clair" if city documents and other official sources do not expand it. Please see https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2019-March/009179.html for the message including some reasoning and examples, and follow links in https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2019-March/thread.html#9179 for responses. Please feel free to respond on the mailing list or here, I can forward your comments here to mailing list if you wish.

Thanks. --Jarek Piórkowski (talk) 17:32, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Removing "WikiProject" prefix

Hi, I am Daniel, from Spain. I would like to change the name of the wiki pages related to the Canada mapping project to remove the "Wikiproject" prefix following the pages name conventions.

The name of the pages related to the Canada mapping project would be "Canada" (name of place) instead of "Wikiproject Canada", as recommended by the wiki conventions. It is a change that I have already made in United States, Spain, and all Spanish-speaking countries on this Wiki, consulting with their communities beforehand. Hard work but good results.

I could make the necessary changes, no problem, and also add the Country template to the Canada project page, although this change is optional.

Do you like the idea? Thank you! --Dcapillae (talk) 17:29, 20 July 2019 (UTC)

The comments on the mailing list and the OSMCanada Slack group are positive. I will make the necessary changes to remove the prefix "WikiProject" from the pages related to the Canada mapping project next week. Thank you for your comments! --Dcapillae (talk) 12:30, 21 July 2019 (UTC)

Provincial maritime borders

In most of Canada, provincial borders at sea are only slightly offshore. This makes sense since Canadian territorial waters are federal jurisdiction. But there seems to be an exception for Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (8402197 8402197), north of PEI. Quebec's border swoops out to capture it, putting a large portion of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence within Quebec borders (southeast portion of 61549 61549). Was this intentional, or should Quebec's borders be turned into a multi-polygon with the islands as an exclave? --Arctic.gnome (talk) 16:44, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Seeing no comments, I'm going to shrink Quebec's maritime borders to match other provinces. --Arctic.gnome (talk) 16:37, 4 February 2020 (UTC)