[Talk-ca] Ontario Road Network

[Herman Versteeg]

Unfortunately at the end of the second paragraph of this news item it states; "Under this agreement the GeoBase dataset does not include street names or street range addresses.". For me address ranges would be nice to have, but street names are a must.

Herman

----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Reid <osm at bowvalleytechnologies.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 14:01
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Ontario Road Network
To: Herman Versteeg <versteh at algonquincollege.com>
Cc: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org

> Herman Versteeg wrote:
> > Hello, I am very interested in getting some free road data for 
> the 
> > Ottawa area (where I am an instructor in the GIS program at 
> Algonquin 
> > College). I came across this web page 
> > (http://www.brocku.ca/maplibrary/digital/ORN.html) at Brock 
> > University, which states that the Ontario Road Network is in 
> the 
> > public domain. This web page also refers to the Geography 
> Network 
> > website 
> (http://www.geographynetwork.ca/website/orn/viewer.htm) where 
> > the ORN can be downloaded for free. I could not find anything 
> on this 
> > website about a license The ORN contains driving directions 
> and 
> > address ranges. Before I investigate this data set further I 
> would 
> > like to know if anybody here has done so already.
> > Herman
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> The ORN dataset is a component of the Geobase Data that we've 
> recently 
> been given approval to incorporate into OSM. It sounds like the 
> latest 
> ORN with the address ranges, etc, is/will be soon in Geobase 
> (see 
> http://geobase.ca/geobase/en/news/2008/nrn-on.html), so we'll be 
> able to 
> bring it into OSM once we work out exactly how the import 
> process is 
> going to work.
> 
> -Jason Reid
> 
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