<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>It is a license problem. OSM legal working group wants to validate each license separately. Canadian open data licenses are generally named "Open Government License - <government body>" and according to OSM, each <government body> is a separate license that need to be separately approved. As you might imagine this is very effort-intensive and thus hasn't been done.<br></div><div><br></div><div>More recently, some or much of the municipal and provincial data has been collated by the federal government and reissued under the federal license which I believe is already approved. However, I don't know if this includes Calgary address data, and no one has done the legwork of organizing an import yet. You could be the hero OSM needs :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jarek</div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, Jul 4, 2023, at 17:13, Stephen Bosch wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>Hi everybody, bonjour -<br></div><div><br></div><div>I live in Germany and I use OSM on a daily basis for address look-ups <br></div><div>and navigation. I've got the OSM+ app on my phone and it works very <br></div><div>well. In fact, the OSM maps are often better than Google Maps.<br></div><div><br></div><div>When I'm back in Canada (Calgary, mostly), it is practically unusable. <br></div><div>The most obvious weakness is that buildings are often unnumbered or <br></div><div>missing entirely, so simple address look-ups fail. For a dramatic <br></div><div>example of this, have a look at the Capitol Hill neighbourhood in Calgary:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/106980291#map=17/51.07172/-114.10028">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/106980291#map=17/51.07172/-114.10028</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>While it's true that there is a large community of contributors in <br></div><div>Germany, the main reason the OSM maps are so good there is that states <br></div><div>and municipalities share rich geodata freely, with some even actively <br></div><div>contributing to OSM. Many public services rely on OSM data, so it's in <br></div><div>their interest that it be of high quality.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The City of Calgary seems to have an open data policy:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m32hxV8md4c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m32hxV8md4c</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.calgary.ca/service-lines/2023-2026-city-services/data-analytics-information-access.html">https://www.calgary.ca/service-lines/2023-2026-city-services/data-analytics-information-access.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://data.calgary.ca/">https://data.calgary.ca/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>so I would expect the same to apply there. For example, there is a 2D <br></div><div>buildings map for Calgary that seems to be complete:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://data.calgary.ca/Base-Maps/2D-Buildings-Map/h98y-bpv6">https://data.calgary.ca/Base-Maps/2D-Buildings-Map/h98y-bpv6</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here's a 3D LIDAR-derived map:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://mapgallery.calgary.ca/apps/bcd22e7089a440e792628ac61f35f4c1/explore">https://mapgallery.calgary.ca/apps/bcd22e7089a440e792628ac61f35f4c1/explore</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>In short, the public data appear to be available. Why aren't they in <br></div><div>OSM? Is this a licence problem?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards<br></div><div><br></div><div>Stephen Bosch<br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>Talk-ca mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Attachments:</b><br></div><ul><li>OpenPGP_0x81DBF71CE1ACDD02.asc<br></li><li>OpenPGP_signature<br></li></ul></blockquote></body></html>