[Talk-ca] Open addresses from Statistics Canada

Justin Tracey j3tracey at gmail.com
Sun May 23 18:37:04 UTC 2021


The individual licenses for each municipality have to be approved 
individually (they do sometimes make changes incompatible with the 
ODbL), but this dataset is re-licensed under OGL Canada, which has been 
approved:

https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/OGL_Canada_and_local_variants

  - Justin

On 2021-05-23 10:12 a.m., James wrote:
> Yes it has, but we agreed in the past each city would have to apply via 
> the import process and not a blanket.
> 
> We did Ottawa via the ODB.
> 
> On Sun., May 23, 2021, 10:10 a.m. Jarek Piórkowski, <jarek at piorkowski.ca 
> <mailto:jarek at piorkowski.ca>> wrote:
> 
>     Has its licence, "Open Government Licence – Canada", been cleared by
>     OSM legal with that specific name?
> 
>     Here is the link: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/lode/databases/oda
>     <https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/lode/databases/oda>
>     (the ZIPs aren't downloading right now, might be everyone trying to
>     download them?)
> 
>     It claims to include postal code which could be pretty useful for OSM
>     as I don't think there's any other open datasets with Canadian postal
>     codes
> 
>     On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 10:00, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >
>      > According to weeklyosm these are now available.
>      >
>      > Cheerio John
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