[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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