Would the StatsCan Data be available to us though (to input into OSM based on our license)? After reading the license agreement it sounds a bit iffy because of the acknowledgement required even if it is released under an unrestricted use license agreement, but I don't know what exactly is allowed at OSM. Here's an excerpt from the license agreement for the road network:<br>
<br>"<b>3.0 Licence grant</b>
<p style="margin-left: 3%;"> 3.1
Subject to this Agreement, the Licensor hereby grants to the Licensee a
non-exclusive,
world-wide, non-assignable, royalty-free right and licence to exercise
such of the Licensor's Licensed Rights and such of the Licensor's
Intellectual Property Rights in the Data as is necessary to use,
reproduce, extract, modify, translate, further develop, distribute the
Data, manufacture or cause to be manufactured and sell or license or
cause to be sold or licensed Derived Products, and to sub-licence any
or all of such rights, PROVIDED: </p><p style="margin-left: 6%;"> (i) all
reproductions of the Data shall carry the notices and metadata
information set out in section 4 hereof and the provisions contained in
sections 5, to be amended in such circumstances by replacing the term
"Licensor" as found in the aforementioned provisions with the
Licensor's applied title or any such designation as the Licensor may
indicate; and <br> (ii) all distribution of the Data or
licensing by the Licensee of Derived Products containing the Data, and
any sub-licence by the Licensee of its rights hereunder, shall be
evidenced in writing, shall be on the same terms and conditions as
contained herein and shall specifically include the provisions
contained in sections 4, 5 and 6.2 hereof, to be amended in the
circumstances by replacing in such agreements the term "Licensor" as
found in the aforementioned provisions with the Licensor's applied
title or any such designation as the Licensor may indicate. </p>
3.2 The Intellectual Property Rights arising from any Modifications or
from the manufacture of Derived Products, effected by or for the
Licensee, shall vest in the Licensee or in such person as the Licensee
shall decide. <br><b><br>4.0 Acknowledgement of source and incorporation of metadata</b>
<p style="margin-left: 3%;">
4.1 The Licensee shall include the following notice where any of the Data is contained within Derived Products,
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 6%;"> <em>
Source: Geography Division, Statistics Canada, 2008 Road Network File, 92-500-XWE, 92-500-XWF
<br>
The incorporation of data sourced from Statistics Canada within this
product shall not be construed as constituting an endorsement by
Statistics Canada of such product </em></p>
<p style="margin-left: 3%;">or any other notice deemed appropriate by the Licensor.
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 3%;">
4.2 The Licensee shall reproduce, include and maintain the following
notice on all reproductions of the Licensor's Data produced pursuant to
Section 3 above: <br></p>
<p style="margin-left: 6%;">
Reproduced with the permission of Statistics Canada<br>
</p>
4.3
The Licensee shall incorporate in all reproduction and downstream
distribution of the Data all metadata included by the Licensor in the
provision of the Data."<br><br>Too bad there wasn't a common UID across all of the government databases though, because if there was we would be able to merge the address attributes into the GeoBase/CanVec road network, and address location and network routing would be possible in the future.<br>
<br>-Kevin Farrugia<br>(Kevo)<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Brent Fraser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bfraser@geoanalytic.com">bfraser@geoanalytic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
StatsCan has road network data available too:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=92-500-X&lang=eng" target="_blank">http://www.statcan.gc.ca/bsolc/olc-cel/olc-cel?catno=92-500-X&lang=eng</a><br>
<br>
Not as much geometric detail, and less positional accuracy than CanVec, but it does have address ranges.<br>
<br>
E.G. Attributes for a road (4th ave SW)in Calgary:<br>
<br>
RB_UID=135363<br>
NAME=4<br>
TYPE=AVE<br>
DIRECTION=SW<br>
ADDR_FM_LE=707<br>
ADDR_TO_LE=707<br>
ADDR_FM_RG=700<br>
ADDR_TO_RG=744<br>
<br>
<br>
Brent Fraser<br>
GeoAnalytic Inc.<br>
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