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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>HI <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>From NRCan web site https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/free-data-geogratis/whats-new/21747<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>“Natural Resources Canada is pleased to announce its new data layer on </span><a href="https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/7a5cda52-c7df-427f-9ced-26f19a8a64d6"><span lang=EN-CA>OpenMaps</span></a><span lang=EN-CA>. The richness of this new data layer comes from information on height and elevation of the buildings that will help support Canadian governments priorities such as emergency management, particularly for flood and earthquake risk analysis. This release contains close to 1 million building footprints. We will expand this coverage as more LiDAR data becomes available over Canada.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>See the Lidar coverage (in green) <a href="https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/free-data-geogratis/whats-new/21742">https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geography/topographic-information/free-data-geogratis/whats-new/21742</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>NRCan will continu to add new building<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Thank you <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>François Paquette </span><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De :</span></b><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> keith hartley [mailto:keith.a.hartley@gmail.com] <br><b>Envoyé :</b> samedi 27 avril 2019 10:54<br><b>À :</b> John Whelan<br><b>Cc :</b> Alessandro (STATCAN); Talk-CA OpenStreetMap<br><b>Objet :</b> Re: [Talk-ca] NRC building footprints - from lidar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I think its where there's good lidar data and imagry for extraction in selected parts of Canada. The extents are here <a href="https://open.canada.ca/data/en/fgpv_vpgf/7a5cda52-c7df-427f-9ced-26f19a8a64d6">https://open.canada.ca/data/en/fgpv_vpgf/7a5cda52-c7df-427f-9ced-26f19a8a64d6</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>MB, Nova Scotia, Alberta and BC <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>May want to update the building import project as this is a really good source! <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 9:42 AM John Whelan <<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Is it just Manitoba or all of Canada?<br><br>In which case do we want to revise the building import project.<br><br>Thanks John<br><br>keith hartley wrote on 4/27/2019 9:56 AM:<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all, <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Canadian Geomatics posted this data set a few months back from Natural Resource Canada. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>It's Building footprints from Lidar or high res imagery. <br><a href="https://canadiangis.com/automatically-extracted-buildings-canadian-open-data.php?fbclid=IwAR22SaWwz7--LarDksVfcQuZ9RDgkVc421n9saJ_Lv8r6xq1qPSrouEF0Ww" target="_blank">https://canadiangis.com/automatically-extracted-buildings-canadian-open-data.php?fbclid=IwAR22SaWwz7--LarDksVfcQuZ9RDgkVc421n9saJ_Lv8r6xq1qPSrouEF0Ww</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/7a5cda52-c7df-427f-9ced-26f19a8a64d6" target="_blank">https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/7a5cda52-c7df-427f-9ced-26f19a8a64d6</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>From what I can tell when placing the data over imagery it's very bang on. Highly accurate, good shapes (unlike the bing files) and well placed. As far as I can tell no one else has uploaded these to OSM. The areas in manitoba are mainly where there's little to no other building info. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I can write an upload plan on Manitoba wiki as the data is complaint license wise. Anything else I should be looking for? The local mappers here are pretty excited about it.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Keith <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Talk-ca mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://www.postbox-inc.com" target="_blank"><span style='color:#009DF7'>Postbox</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>