<div dir="ltr">Quebec's Open Data portal just points to the city portals which each have their own license....(usually CC-BY)<br><br><a href="https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/">https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:42 AM, James <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james2432@gmail.com" target="_blank">james2432@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We also have to think if we are going with "good enough".... when we want better the work that will be doubled to make the boundaries better.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Paul Ramsey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pramsey@cleverelephant.ca" target="_blank">pramsey@cleverelephant.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Municipalities are creatures of the provinces, the most likely source of complete, correct municipal boundaries will be the provincial government, though each municipality will generally know theirs (and sometimes disagree with neighbours, hence the utility of using a provincial file if available).<div><br></div><div>Matching of CSDs with municipal boundaries is something StatsCan will attempt to achieve, but it's by no means a guarantee. If the goal is "good enough", CSDs are good enough. If the goal is to reflect reality, provincial data will always be preferable.</div><div><br></div><div>e.g. <a href="https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/municipalities-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc" target="_blank">https://catalogue.data.go<wbr>v.bc.ca/dataset/municipalities<wbr>-legally-defined-<wbr>administrative-areas-of-bc</a></div><span class="m_-4890559893184052860HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>P</div><div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="m_-4890559893184052860HOEnZb"><div class="m_-4890559893184052860h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:31 AM, James <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james2432@gmail.com" target="_blank">james2432@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>In purple/black CSD 2016, in gold Gatineau's city limits from their open data portal:<br><a href="http://i.imgur.com/undefined.png" target="_blank">http://i.imgur.com/undefined.p<wbr>ng</a><br><br></div>The CSDs do not match up with actual city bounds<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Bjenk Ellefsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjenk.ellefsen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bjenk.ellefsen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing: Census Divisions are higher level and more regional boundaries. CSDs are municipal boundaries (in OSM, level 8).  <a href="http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/subjects/standard/sgc/2011/sgc-intro" target="_blank">http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/s<wbr>ubjects/standard/sgc/2011/sgc-<wbr>intro</a><br><br></div>Can you give me an example of city limits that don't match a CSD or is not in the SGC? Usually, the standard for municipal boundaries are the CSDs. At least, as far as I know, this is the standard geography. When referring to actual city limits, which geographical classification is it referring to?<br><br></div>Sorry for the questions, I am trying to understand what is the classification used if its not the CSDs.<br></div><div class="m_-4890559893184052860m_8095952233658005601m_3577798114253466095HOEnZb"><div class="m_-4890559893184052860m_8095952233658005601m_3577798114253466095h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:11 AM, James <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james2432@gmail.com" target="_blank">james2432@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Bernie, I've also noticed that StatsCan boundaries seem to be a generalization of an area vs the actual city limits<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-4890559893184052860m_8095952233658005601m_3577798114253466095m_-528133671642053418h5">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Bernie Connors <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:berniejconnors@gmail.com" target="_blank">berniejconnors@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-4890559893184052860m_8095952233658005601m_3577798114253466095m_-528133671642053418h5"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);line-height:initial" lang="en-US">                                                                                      <div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Bjenk,</div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">      In NB there are issues with some census boundaries not matching with our administrative boundaries. The issue I am aware of was with the county boundaries. The census data that is analogous to our county boundaries included some significant deviations to prevent a municipality from being bisected by a county boundary. Please be careful that there is not a similar issue with the CSD boundaries. NB municipal boundaries can be downloaded from the GeoNB Data Catalogue For comparison to the CSD data. </div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Bernie. </div>                                                                                                                                     <div style="width:100%;font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="display:initial"></div>                                                                                                                                                                                                   <div style="font-size:initial;font-family:Calibri,'Slate Pro',sans-serif,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 sma<wbr>rtphone on the Bell network.</div>                                                                                                                                                                                  <table style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">                           <div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0in 0in;font-family:Tahoma,'BB Alpha Sans','Slate Pro';font-size:10pt">  <div><b>From: </b>Bjenk Ellefsen</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, March 7, 2017 9:51 AM</div><div><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a></div><div><b>Subject: </b>[Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(186,188,209);border-top-width:1pt;font-size:initial;text-align:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></div><br><div id="m_-4890559893184052860m_8095952233658005601m_3577798114253466095m_-528133671642053418m_3739736276235969147m_-8199366067872245391_originalContent"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello, <br><br></div>Municipal boundaries correspond to census subdivisions (CSD). I have seen that many municipalities do not have a boundary yet. Is it ok if I start adding some boundaries based on CSDs? Having the boundaries is important to make extractions and analysis at the municipal level.<br><br></div>Bjenk<br></div>
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