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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">De :</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> john whelan <<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>À :</b> "Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)" <<a href="mailto:bjenk.ellefsen@canada.ca">bjenk.ellefsen@canada.ca</a>>
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<b>Cc :</b> Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <<a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>
<b>Envoyé le :</b> lundi 18 juillet 2016 12h07<br>
<b>Objet :</b> Re: [Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">On 18 July 2016 at 11:27, Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <<a href="mailto:bjenk.ellefsen@canada.ca" target="_blank">bjenk.ellefsen@canada.ca</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">My name is Bjenk Ellefsen. I am working for the Data Exploration and Integration Lab at Statistics Canada.
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 (footprints, addresses and simple building attributes). The pilot project will focus on the Ottawa-Gatineau region.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">In November of last year, my chief, Alessandro Alasia, spoke with Paul Norman. At that time, we were exploring the idea of crowdsourcing.
 We have done quite a lot of background research and planning since then (although much learning remains to be done). The preliminary idea has evolved in a proof of concept proposal and, from there, into the current project.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Earlier this month we held a first meeting/conference call with the local (Canada/Ottawa) OSM community. We hope to strengthen these
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 is a reality but, as far as I know, there has been no other attempt to assess its potential from the perspective of a national statistical office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">I am copying my colleague Bjenk Ellefsen, who is part of our team and who will follow-up on most of the communication with the OSM
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