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<div style="font-size: 12pt;font-family: Verdana;">Following on from the
Stats Canada supported building outline import for Ottawa they have
made building outlines available under the Canadian Government Open Data
License for other municipalities. This Open Data license has been
formally approved by the OSM legal working group.<br><br>Sampling it
shows it is accurate data as was the City of Ottawa data.<br><br>A wiki
page is being created following the experience of the Ottawa import.<br><br>The
Ottawa import wiki page is here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Plan">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Plan</a><br><br>We
strongly suspect that some of this data has already been imported. It
has the same license as the CANVEC data and the preference would be to
set up a formal plan and formalise the process rather than have small ad
hoc imports made.<br><br>The City of Ottawa now has 320,000 buildings
of which 48,000 are tagged building=yes. The others have been enriched
by the local community with an average of three or four tags per
building. Stats Canada's involvement has introduced a number of new
mappers to the community and we would expect this enrichment process to
happen with the rest of the data.<br><br>The Canadian mapping community
has raised the issue of buildings being mapped possibly with iD that are
not of high quality and this import would avoid future work in cleaning
these up.<br><br>Your thoughts are invited.<br><br>Thanks John<br><br><br><br><br><br>
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