[Talk-ca] StatsCan Road Network
Michel Gilbert
michcasa at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 01:10:21 GMT 2008
2008/12/11 Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
> 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:
>
The Geobase NRN has better geometry: it is accurate (published accuracy) and
homogeneous. I do not think you will find out what are the sources used by
Stats Can for their product. Also, Geobase adopted update cycles and provide
a Unique National Identifier to track the changes. For now Geobase does not
have a full attributive product for street names and adresses but partners
are working to create the NRN 2.0 wich includes those attributes. I think
Stats Canada is one of the partners for the NRN 2.0.
Michel
>
> :
>
> > 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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