[Talk-ca] Stats Canada building project

James james2432 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 27 22:27:38 UTC 2017


other then have them change their license from say ogl-ca v1 to ogl-cav2

theres not much we can do from a legal stand point. ogl-ca v1 puts too many
restrictions

On Sep 27, 2017 6:21 PM, "Matthew Darwin" <matthew at mdarwin.ca> wrote:

> How do we want to move this discussion forward?  Do we need to set up a
> time to talk on the phone? I am willing to help coordinate logistics.
>
> On 2017-09-17 10:55 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
>
>> On 2017-09-17 10:40 AM, john whelan wrote:
>>
>>> They'd like to extend it across Canada so now might be the time to think
>>> about the project.
>>>
>> That sounds good. Despite some prodding, the Licence Working Group (LWG)
>> hasn't got back to me with any updates on how they want to handle the
>> Toronto or Ontario licences. I first contacted them in March, so if it
>> takes them six months or more to look at the licence, then this import
>> is a multi year (if not multi-decade) project. Remember, LWG has decided
>> that *every* Canadian licence variant needs their sign-off.
>>
>> Denis Carr (open data lead) from Toronto has been on board since the
>> spring, and I hope hasn't forgotten us.
>>
>> Toronto has nice building outlines (embedded in the 3D Massing data set,
>> so we can pull out base elevation and height). We also have address
>> points already in the middle of buildings.
>>
>> It also is of great help that the Esri Community Imagery includes some
>> very nice municipal air photos for verification.
>>
>>   Stewart
>>
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