[Talk-ca] FW: Road Network File license conflict?

[Dan Putler]

Hi Richard,

You will have a lot road names, and also a large number of unnamed
roads. Two agencies actually created this network. StatsCan did the more
urban areas (complete with address ranges and road names), while
Elections Canada did the more rural roads (so they could figure out how
to contact people for Federal elections). While the StatsCan data has
street names and address ranges, it has locational accuracy issues. In
fact, they rubber sheeted their roads in an effort to have them more
closely match the RNF. Having worked with this data a fair amount, it
appears to have been something of a mixed success. As a result, working
with this data is going to involve more good times with RoadMatcher.

Dan

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 10:50 -0500, Richard Weait wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Good news.  We may use the StatCan Road Network File under the
> Unrestricted Use Agreement.  
> 
> So does this get us road names in other provinces?   
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Marie-Josee.Lalonde at statcan.gc.ca
> > To: richard at weait.com
> > Subject: Request #2008398 - FW: Road Network File license conflict?
> > Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:21:27 -0500
> > 
> > Hello Mr. Weait,
> > 
> > Yes, your request is permissible with the Unrestricted Use agreement.
> > I believe the copyright notice pertains to the content of the
> > reference guide and not to the actual product.
> 
> [copy of s3.0 Licence Grant removed for space]
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Weait [mailto:richard at weait.com] 
> > Sent: February 27, 2009 5:12 PM
> > To: infostats at statcan.ca
> > Subject: Road Network File license conflict?
> > 
> > Dear Statcan, 
> > 
> > I'm a contributor to OpenStreetMap, an international project to
> > provide
> > maps and mapping tools to people around the world.  There are over
> > 95,000 contributors around the world.   
> > 
> > The Canadian OpenStreetMap community is interested in including 
> > information from Statistics Canada in OpenStreetMap but we found a 
> > possible contradiction in the permitted use of the Road Network File 
> > that raised questions.  From an abundance of caution, I write to you
> > for clarification.  
> > 
> > The Unrestricted use license agreement[1] appears to permit commercial
> > use of the derivative product while the more information page
> > specifically excludes commercial use[2].  
> 
> > I hope that you can clear this up for us so that we may begin the
> > process of importing the Road Network file and merging the data with 
> > OpenStreetMap.   
> > 
> > Perhaps the information page refers to the Statistics Canada web site
> > while the unrestricted use license agreement refers to the Road
> > Network file?  
> >  
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Richard Weait,
> > 
> > OpenStreetMap data contributor
> > [1]http://geodepot.statcan.ca/2006/Reference/Freepub/92-500-GWE/2008001/agreement-en.htm
> > [2]http://geodepot.statcan.ca/2006/Reference/Freepub/92-500-GWE/2008001/info-en.htm
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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Dan Putler
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia