[Talk-ca] Administrative boundaries of Québec

[Nicolas Gignac]

Bonjour,

I sent your comments to the person (managing the Administrative boundaries)
I know on how to contribute their datasets to OSM.
After talking to him, I was woundering if a WMS connection of their datasets
can be used and integrated directly in openstreetmap.ca as context layer (if
they are agreed to), the same as the one built by Frank :
http://mijndev.openstreetmap.nl/~fsteggink/quebec_admin.html<http://mijndev.openstreetmap.nl/%7Efsteggink/quebec_admin.html>
or the same context as Yahoo Imagery layer that can be used for data editing
?
So both organisation can benefit from each other : OSM could use outsourcing
data to improve its own map and data producer can contribute to OSM but
still securing their own datasets.
Is there any possibilities for that kind of option or agreement for an
outsourcing context layer as WMS to be integrated in OSM ?

Au plaisir,

Nicolas

2010/2/5 Yves Moisan <yves.moisan at boreal-is.com>

> Le jeudi 04 février 2010 à 20:40 -0500, Frank Steggink a écrit :
> > Hi Nicolas,
> >
> > Nicolas Gignac wrote:
> > >
> > > The contact I had in the government of Quebec have raised issues on
> > > delivering up-to-date datasets in OSM, such as the Administrative
> > > boundaries of Québec (BDGA).
> > > Could someone help this person to understand quickly the advantage for
> > > his organisation to share its data with the OSM community.
> > >
> > I'm not sure if there will be a direct advantage to his organization,
> > but making this data publicly available would be hugely advantageous to
> > the people of Quebec and others who have interest in it. In my opinion
> > this is actually a public service.
>
> Just the kind of comment I was waiting to plug this great blog post from
> Paul Ramsey : http://blog.opengeo.org/2010/02/04/why-we-do-what-we-do/
>
> It's about the free software tools the organization he's with makes
> available to folks in general :
>
> "These are all folks who have used the tools that our team members build
> and maintain, to do good in the world. They don’t have to ask
> permission, and they don’t have to pay us, and the world is a little
> more understandable after they are finished than it was before. And
> that’s the point."
>
> That should be the spirit of *any* public or para-public service IMHO :
> "These are all folks who have used the **data** that our team members
> build and maintain ... "
>
> Yves
>
>
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