[Talk-ca] Open addresses from Statistics Canada

James james2432 at gmail.com
Sun May 23 18:41:59 UTC 2021


would it though? as the data obtained from stats can is under one license
to simplify the process, cities give their data so it can be licensed under
it. It's not a dual license type situation.

On Sun., May 23, 2021, 2:39 p.m. Justin Tracey, <j3tracey at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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