[Talk-ca] StatsCan Road Network

Brent Fraser bfraser at geoanalytic.com
Thu Dec 11 22:12:35 GMT 2008


Kevin,

  Good point. I got excited by the "unrestricted-use" claim...

Kevin Farrugia wrote:
> Would the StatsCan Data be available to us though (to input into OSM 
> based on our license)?  After reading the license agreement it sounds a 
> bit iffy because of the acknowledgement required even if it is released 
> under an unrestricted use license a greement, but I don't know what 
> exactly is allowed at OSM. Here's an excerpt from the license agreement 
> for the road network:

	: 

> 4.2 The Licensee shall reproduce, include and maintain the following 
> notice on all reproductions of the Licensor's Data produced pursuant to 
> Section 3 above:
> 
> Reproduced with the permission of Statistics Canada
> 
> 4.3 The Licensee shall incorporate in all reproduction and downstream 
> distribution of the Data all metadata included by the Licensor in the 
> provision of the Data."

Gratis, but not truly libre.  But they may be willing to make an exception for OSM.

Brent
> 
> Too bad there wasn't a common UID across all of the government databases 
> though, because if there was we would be able to merge the address 
> attributes into the GeoBase/CanVec road network, and address location 
> and network routing would be possible in the future.

Hopefully they are working on that, but who knows...

> 
> -Kevin Farrugia
> (Kevo)
> 
> 




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