[Talk-ca] Surrey Data

[Sam Vekemans]

I've notified the city of Mississauga (Ontario) about Surrey's Open Data policy.
So now they are 'looking into it' :)


cheers,
Sam

On 11/4/10, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
> I talked to someone with their GIS department today and they plan on
> releasing their 2010 orthographs in a few days. They also plan on
> downsampling the data because each tile is ~1 GB, leading to a total size of
> 120 GB or so. I'm also talking with them about getting the data from the
> edges which are outside their tile system but photographed.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: talk-ca-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-ca-
>> bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Paul Norman
>> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 3:21 PM
>> To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: [Talk-ca] Surrey Data
>>
>> The City of Surrey has released their GIS data under the PDDL at
>> http://www.surrey.ca/city-services/658.aspx
>>
>> Included in this is addresses for the entire city, lamp posts, manholes.
>> I've glanced at some of the files in ArcGIS Explorer and the level of
>> detail in them is excessive if anything. That being said, I wonder if
>> there's some stuff worth importing.
>>
>> What interested me is the orthography data, being PDDL. They have 2008
>> in GeoTiffs at http://www.surrey.ca/city-services/4911.aspx and a 2010
>> slippymap at
>> http://cosmos.surrey.ca/ArcGIS/rest/services/ORTHO2010/MapServer
>>
>> The 2008 are 40cm resolution color, and the 2010 are 10cm resolution
>> color.
>>
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