[Talk-ca] Industry Canada Spectrum Direct Data: usable?

[Stewart C. Russell]

Spectrum Direct is Industry Canada's database of licensed radio
transmitters/receivers:
<http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/sd-sd.nsf/eng/h_00025.html>. Everything
from tiny cell repeaters through airport surveillance radars to giant
radio masts is listed with operator, call sign, elevation AGL, and
frequency.

Could the data be used in OSM? The pages have Important Notices
attached: <http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ic1.nsf/eng/h_00065.html>.

While the data format is horrid*, and the coordinates are only given to
seconds of arc, it could be useful to add metadata to installations
you've already mapped. That's if the licence would work ...

 Stewart

* there's a decent Perl parser here:
<http://search.cpan.org/~doneill/Parse-SpectrumDirect-RadioFrequency-0.100/lib/Parse/SpectrumDirect/RadioFrequency.pm>