Bonjour,<br><br>I sent your comments to the person (managing the Administrative boundaries) I know on how to contribute their datasets to OSM.<br>After talking to him, I was woundering if a WMS connection of their datasets can be used and integrated directly in <a href="http://openstreetmap.ca">openstreetmap.ca</a> as context layer (if they are agreed to), the same as the one built by Frank : <a href="http://mijndev.openstreetmap.nl/%7Efsteggink/quebec_admin.html">http://mijndev.openstreetmap.nl/~fsteggink/quebec_admin.html</a><br>
or the same context as Yahoo Imagery layer that can be used for data editing ?<br>So both organisation can benefit from each other : OSM could use outsourcing data to improve its own map and data producer can contribute to OSM but still securing their own datasets.<br>
Is there any possibilities for that kind of option or agreement for an outsourcing context layer as WMS to be integrated in OSM ?<br><br>Au plaisir,<br><br>Nicolas<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/2/5 Yves Moisan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yves.moisan@boreal-is.com">yves.moisan@boreal-is.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;">Le jeudi 04 février 2010 à 20:40 -0500, Frank Steggink a écrit :<br>
<div class="im">> Hi Nicolas,<br>
><br>
> Nicolas Gignac wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > The contact I had in the government of Quebec have raised issues on<br>
> > delivering up-to-date datasets in OSM, such as the Administrative<br>
> > boundaries of Québec (BDGA).<br>
> > Could someone help this person to understand quickly the advantage for<br>
> > his organisation to share its data with the OSM community.<br>
> ><br>
> I'm not sure if there will be a direct advantage to his organization,<br>
> but making this data publicly available would be hugely advantageous to<br>
> the people of Quebec and others who have interest in it. In my opinion<br>
> this is actually a public service.<br>
<br>
</div>Just the kind of comment I was waiting to plug this great blog post from<br>
Paul Ramsey : <a href="http://blog.opengeo.org/2010/02/04/why-we-do-what-we-do/" target="_blank">http://blog.opengeo.org/2010/02/04/why-we-do-what-we-do/</a><br>
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It's about the free software tools the organization he's with makes<br>
available to folks in general :<br>
<br>
"These are all folks who have used the tools that our team members build<br>
and maintain, to do good in the world. They don’t have to ask<br>
permission, and they don’t have to pay us, and the world is a little<br>
more understandable after they are finished than it was before. And<br>
that’s the point."<br>
<br>
That should be the spirit of *any* public or para-public service IMHO :<br>
"These are all folks who have used the **data** that our team members<br>
build and maintain ... "<br>
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Yves<br>
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