<div dir="auto">Statistics Canada has been releasing municipal data under the federal government open data licence. It did a pilot in Ottawa to import buildings etc which was successful. It then hoped to extend the pilot to the rest of the country.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Much of the provincial government's and municipal government's open data is under a different licence which might not have been approved by the LWG.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The City of Ottawa's Open Data licence does align with OSM and if you examine Ottawa I think you'll find most buildings are correctly numbered etc.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Some years ago I seem to recall someone reporting 500,000 buildings to the DWG on the grounds they had been imported too quickly as part of the Stats Canada initiative.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This sort of took the wind out of the sails. One mapper involved decided other hobbies were more suited to his life style. I'm not sure what has been happening more recently.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 4, 2023, 17:17 Stephen Bosch <<a href="mailto:posting@vodacomm.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">posting@vodacomm.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi everybody, bonjour -<br>
<br>
I live in Germany and I use OSM on a daily basis for address look-ups <br>
and navigation. I've got the OSM+ app on my phone and it works very <br>
well. In fact, the OSM maps are often better than Google Maps.<br>
<br>
When I'm back in Canada (Calgary, mostly), it is practically unusable. <br>
The most obvious weakness is that buildings are often unnumbered or <br>
missing entirely, so simple address look-ups fail. For a dramatic <br>
example of this, have a look at the Capitol Hill neighbourhood in Calgary:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/106980291#map=17/51.07172/-114.10028" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/106980291#map=17/51.07172/-114.10028</a><br>
<br>
While it's true that there is a large community of contributors in <br>
Germany, the main reason the OSM maps are so good there is that states <br>
and municipalities share rich geodata freely, with some even actively <br>
contributing to OSM. Many public services rely on OSM data, so it's in <br>
their interest that it be of high quality.<br>
<br>
The City of Calgary seems to have an open data policy:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m32hxV8md4c" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m32hxV8md4c</a><br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.calgary.ca/service-lines/2023-2026-city-services/data-analytics-information-access.html" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.calgary.ca/service-lines/2023-2026-city-services/data-analytics-information-access.html</a><br>
<br>
<a href="https://data.calgary.ca/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://data.calgary.ca/</a><br>
<br>
so I would expect the same to apply there. For example, there is a 2D <br>
buildings map for Calgary that seems to be complete:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://data.calgary.ca/Base-Maps/2D-Buildings-Map/h98y-bpv6" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://data.calgary.ca/Base-Maps/2D-Buildings-Map/h98y-bpv6</a><br>
<br>
Here's a 3D LIDAR-derived map:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://mapgallery.calgary.ca/apps/bcd22e7089a440e792628ac61f35f4c1/explore" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mapgallery.calgary.ca/apps/bcd22e7089a440e792628ac61f35f4c1/explore</a><br>
<br>
In short, the public data appear to be available. Why aren't they in <br>
OSM? Is this a licence problem?<br>
<br>
Kind regards<br>
<br>
Stephen Bosch<br>
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