[Talk-ca] uploading municipal ward boundary data

[Jennifer Bell]

Hi there,  thanks for your response.  Looking at the list of sources
on the geobase site, I don't think it includes ward-level boundaries.

The best of those data sets for my purposes, AFAIK, are the statscan
ones, which contain city boundaries as census sub-divisions.  It's no
good for anything smaller, as statscan arbitrarily divides cities into
smaller regions specifically for use by census data collectors.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

To answer your question: I was going to try to get written permission
for the PEI and ON ward boundaries for cities listed so far on
fixmystreet.ca - Ottawa, Charlottetown, Summerside, Cornwall, and
Stratford:

http://fixmystreet.ca/cities/

My idea was that it would be easier to maintain correct ward
boundaries for fixmystreet.ca (and other sites like it) if they were
available on a site where they could be edited publicly.

Jennifer

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM,  <simon at mungewell.org> wrote:
> Hello Jenifer,
> You don't mention which cities/areas the maps you have cover, is this
> information included within the GeoBase data?
>
> http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/cgb/index.html
>
> If so then we probably already have permisson to use and an easier path to
> include it into OSM.
>
> Regarding the coding, are the boundaries fixed (such as MD boundaries) or
> more succeptable to change (ie. voting wards, which may be adjusted from
> time to time)?
>
> There is some discussion of 'boundary=voting' here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:boundary#Elections..
>
> Simon
>
>
>



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