[Talk-ca] Open Data for Airdrie AB

[john whelan]

For building footprints there are two sources of open data that are
correctly licensed.  One is Microsoft's building footprints and the other
is the Stat Can released data.  The Stats Canada data is basically the
municipal data released under the federal government's licence.

I suggest you first check with James and ask him if your city's data is in
the Stat Can data set.

The next step having sorted out a source of open data that has an approved
licence is to work out a process to include the data.

There is a single import of the Stat Can buildings in progress.  However a
Toronto mapper took exception to a million buildings being added mainly in
the West of Canada and asked the DWG to remove them.

A group of three mappers are looking at ways to "cleanse" the data using
open source software.  Once they have arrived at an agreed acceptable
solution then I assume the Canada wide building import will continue in
some way.

So you can hang on or you can submit your own import plan.  To do this the
local mappers have to be in agreement.  In Ottawa this meant we met over
coffee.

Then you need to formally write up an import plan in the wiki.  Submit it
to the import mailing list and answer any queries they may have.  In this
case Nate will probably say it is already covered in the current Canada
wide import plan so why introduce yet another plan.  It also has to be
listed somewhere or other as an import.

It also has to be discussed in this mailing group.

The City of Ottawa was kind enough to adopt the municipal version of the
federal government's open data licence.  It took about five years from
start to finish to get them to be nice and adopt it.  It has been formally
approved by the legal working group.  If you can get your city to adopt the
same licence great.  In Ottawa it meant we could bring in bus stops etc.

Any other licence should either be approved by the Legal Working Group or
you can put your own interpretation on it.  If challenged at a later date
your imported data could be removed so I don't recommend this route.

In short if you have a couple of local mappers in agreement that they would
like to import the data, and if it is available via Stat Can and they find
the data quality acceptable then ask to be permitted to import it on this
mailing list.  James maybe able to assist.  Only if this route is not
available should you think about doing something else.

Cheerio John

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 3:42 PM Joshua Kenney, <kenney_45 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody!
> Relatively new mapper here.  I've been working on mapping my home town,
> and a couple of other places I've been, for the past 3 or 4 months.
>
> I have found that my city of Airdrie, AB has a number of datasets
> available under an Open Data Licence:
>
> http://data-airdrie.opendata.arcgis.com/pages/our-open-licence
> The licence terms look straight forward enough, are there any additional
> steps I need to take to confirm compatibility with OSM?
>
> One of the datasets includes building footprints.  Would importing that
> get in the way of the import of the national data? Where can I access the
> national data to compare the quality?
>
> --Joshua
>
>
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