[Talk-ca] aerial imagery for missing roads

[Kevin Farrugia]

Morning everyone,

I was looking at information on one of the Province's imagery programs
(SWOOP:
https://dr6j45jk9xcmk.cloudfront.net/documents/3609/lio-swoop2015-eng-final-2014-05-13.pdf)
and I had previously assumed that the imagery was paid for by the province
but the rights still owned by the imagery company, which is the case where
I work.  However, it looks like they might purchase the imagery outright
because it says the imagery is owned by the Queen's Printer, which is the
holder of the Crown's copyrights in Ontario.

If that's the case you can try contacting their open data team to see if
they can persuade the Ministry of Natural Resources to release the data
openly under the Open Government Directive as a WMS/TIFFs or you can lodge
a FIPPA request to have it released (I don't know how this affects you or
us being able to use it in OSM, however).

You can check out what their imagery looks like here to see if it's worth
your time contacting them:
http://www.giscoeapp.lrc.gov.on.ca/matm/Index.html?site=Make_A_Topographic_Map&viewer=MATM&locale=en-US
(in Map Layers turn off Topographic Data to see the imagery).

-Kevin (Kevo)


On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Begin Daniel <jfd553 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Missing access=no and access=private tags I understand...
> Daniel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stewart C. Russell [mailto:scruss at gmail.com]
> Sent: June-24-16 22:45
> To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] aerial imagery for missing roads
>
> On 2016-06-23 10:26 PM, Pierre Béland wrote:
> >
> > Going north outside of urban zones, there are many tracks for lumber
> > areas. Hard to assess the accessibility of such roads for cars.
>
> Most logging roads, certainly in BC, are private. While they look large,
> and make tempting additions to the map, accidentally routing traffic along
> them could be fatal. Logging trucks don't (can't!) stop, and unless you
> have authorization and the right radio to call in the checkpoints, the
> controller won't be able to tell you if there's a truck coming that you
> need to get out of the way of.
>
> CanVec also mistakenly digitized a bunch of private wind farm access roads
> in Ontario, such as https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/39334427 .
> While using these might not be life-threatening, it is trespassing to use
> them.
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
>
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