[Talk-ca] Open addresses from Statistics Canada

[John Whelan]

Interesting question, you obviously haven't met the guys at Statistics 
Canada.  Basically in order for Stats to release the data as part of any 
survey etc they need it to be licensed to them in a form they can use.  
Once that is done then Stats can do with it as they please.  They make a 
lot of money out of producing surveys by combining data that show where 
the best location for a new coffee shop etc. is and that is often the 
driving force behind their geo data side.

Cheerio John

Justin Tracey wrote on 5/23/2021 9:23 PM:
>
> What is not clear is *how* they got this permission.
>
> On 2021-05-23 2:41 p.m., James wrote:
>> 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 
>> <mailto: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
>> <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>
>>      > <mailto: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>
>>      >     <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>
>>      >     <mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>      >      >
>>      >      > According to weeklyosm these are now available.
>>      >      >
>>      >      > Cheerio John
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