<div dir="ltr">I read through the license and it clearly gives permission to redistribute. I have a mirror as well in case anything happens.<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Darren Wiebe<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Peuc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peuc@wanadoo.fr" target="_blank">peuc@wanadoo.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Hi guys,<br>
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I already have a mirror of the Canvec data, I will make public
if/when government data disappear.<br>
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However, feel free to make some other backups, just in case.<br>
<pre cols="72">Pierre</pre>
Le 15/11/2014 17:33, Daniel Begin a écrit :<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Well,
since we do not have received any response/insurance from
NRCan that the ftp site will keep running, I would like to
have a backup location, just in case the official ftp site
stops to provide data. I would be very sad if the data
eventually ends up being no longer available.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">However,
since I used to be the NRCan contact (now retired), I wish
to make clear that my answer is from an OSM user’s point of
view, not an NRCan answer (official or not !-)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Best<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Daniel<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> Darren Wiebe [<a href="mailto:darren@aleph-com.net" target="_blank">mailto:darren@aleph-com.net</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> November-15-14 16:21<br>
<b>To:</b> Daniel Begin<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:davis.christopher@gmail.com" target="_blank">davis.christopher@gmail.com</a>; Talk-CA
OpenStreetMap<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-ca] Bringing canvec to OSM back to
life<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would it be acceptable to mirror the
Canvec data in the FTP site? I'd gladly put up the
resources to serve up the data.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Darren Wiebe<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">First,
a short clarification – I do not know if
Canvec will no longer (never again) be
supplied in OSM format, I just know there
are currently no resources allocated to work
with the OSM community.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Second,
about the Canvec conversion scripts …</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">-</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1f497d">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">They
are owned by the crown – I would be
surprised they could/would be released to
the public;</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">-</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1f497d">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">They
were all developed with FME – a powerful
tool – but you usually need to pay to get
the appropriate licences…</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Third,
concerning potential “diffs” files …</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">-</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1f497d">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">There
are some references to diffs files in
talk-ca archives (some were even available
for few NTS through ftp site)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">-</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1f497d">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Maybe
diffs files are available for Canvec? I do
not know. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Forth,
my main concern is more about the sustained
availability of the data in the ftp site </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">L</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Best,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Daniel</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> Chris Davis [mailto:<a href="mailto:davis.christopher@gmail.com" target="_blank">davis.christopher@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> November-15-14 01:56<br>
<b>To:</b> Darren Wiebe<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Talk-CA OpenStreetMap<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-ca] Bringing
canvec to OSM back to life</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I
think it would be great to see newer
CanVec data in OSM as well. BC's
vegetation coverage from the last import
in 2010 (tagged as "natural":"wood") is
horribly patchy and quite ugly in the
OSM basemap and other maps.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chris<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On
14 November 2014 18:25, Darren Wiebe
<<a href="mailto:darren@aleph-com.net" target="_blank">darren@aleph-com.net</a>>
wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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can only address point 4. I'd love
to see newer Canvec data. <u></u><u></u></p>
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Wiebe</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On
Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:18
PM, Andrew <<a href="mailto:andrew.allison@teksavvy.com" target="_blank">andrew.allison@teksavvy.com</a>>
wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hello
List:<br>
<br>
Given Daniel's reply
that Canvec will no longer
be supplied in OSM<br>
format, I'm curious about:<br>
<br>
1: I don't know what I
don't know to begin with :-)<br>
2: Are the scripts /
programs available to do the
conversion still<br>
available?<br>
3: Was there ever a
program written to produce a
"diffs" file?<br>
4: Is there a desire to
have newer Canvec data
converted to OSM?<br>
<br>
Just throwing this
out there.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
aka CanvecImports<br>
<br>
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