<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/11 Brent Fraser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bfraser@geoanalytic.com">bfraser@geoanalytic.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Kevin,<br>
<br>
Good point. I got excited by the "unrestricted-use" claim...<br>
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Kevin Farrugia wrote:<br>
> Would the StatsCan Data be available to us though (to input into OSM<br>
> based on our license)? After reading the license agreement it sounds a<br>
> bit iffy because of the acknowledgement required even if it is released<br>
</div>> under an unrestricted use license a greement, but I don't know what<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> exactly is allowed at OSM. Here's an excerpt from the license agreement<br>
> for the road network:<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>The Geobase NRN has better geometry: it is accurate (published accuracy) and homogeneous. I do not think you will find out what are the sources used by Stats Can for their product. Also, Geobase adopted update cycles and provide a Unique National Identifier to track the changes. For now Geobase does not have a full attributive product for street names and adresses but partners are working to create the NRN 2.0 wich includes those attributes. I think Stats Canada is one of the partners for the NRN 2.0.<br>
<br>Michel<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
</div> :<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> 4.2 The Licensee shall reproduce, include and maintain the following<br>
> notice on all reproductions of the Licensor's Data produced pursuant to<br>
> Section 3 above:<br>
><br>
> Reproduced with the permission of Statistics Canada<br>
><br>
> 4.3 The Licensee shall incorporate in all reproduction and downstream<br>
> distribution of the Data all metadata included by the Licensor in the<br>
> provision of the Data."<br>
<br>
</div>Gratis, but not truly libre. But they may be willing to make an exception for OSM.<br>
<br>
Brent<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">><br>
> Too bad there wasn't a common UID across all of the government databases<br>
> though, because if there was we would be able to merge the address<br>
> attributes into the GeoBase/CanVec road network, and address location<br>
> and network routing would be possible in the future.<br>
<br>
</div>Hopefully they are working on that, but who knows...<br>
<br>
><br>
> -Kevin Farrugia<br>
> (Kevo)<br>
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