[Talk-ca] uploading municipal ward boundary data

[Jennifer Bell]

I forgot to say: ward boundaries do change from time to time,
particularly just before a municipal election.   Hence, a
crowd-sourced solution is desirable.

JB

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Jennifer Bell
<jennifer at visiblegovernment.ca> wrote:
> 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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