[Talk-ca] Import of Central Okanagan Regional District GIS data?

[Dan Putler]

Hi David,

It looks like this data is being released into the Public Domain. The 
relevant part of their terms of use statement (which is for the download 
site, not the data itself) is:

Geographic data is now available through this download site. This data 
is being made available to you free of any restrictive licences. In 
order to access the Regional District of Central Okanagan geographic 
data download service it is necessary to read, understand, and accept 
the terms of use for this service.

Reading through the entire statement, most of the rest boils down to the 
data is being released as is, where is, and they make no claim of 
accuracy, usability, and so on. In other words, "here it is, and, by the 
way, you can't sue us if it is wrong." I've pulled down the roads and 
address points data. The main issue is that the data only covers areas 
that are not in one of the municipalities in the Central Okanagan 
Regional District (so no data for Kelowna, Peachland, Westbank, etc.), 
or at least for the two layers I downloaded.

Dan

On 11/01/2010 11:00 AM, David Wetzel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the Central Okanagan Regional District seems to have data for download.
> Can that be used? The OSM coverage is not so good in that area.
>
> http://www.regionaldistrict.com/departments/gis/gis.aspx
>
>
> David
>
>
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