[Talk-ca] Nanaimo street address data

[john whelan]

The data is given to stats which means stats can release it under their
license.  Stats went into this and it took a couple of months before it was
cleared internally.  It was done as stats wanted the building data in OSM
so it could be enriched then sold when combined with other sources to their
clients.  The license they release the data under is the federal
government's open data version two which has been formally approved by LWG.

Many municipalities give their GTFS data to Google, when I asked them about
the license it was released under I was told it was given without
restriction.

Data can be given or licenced in some cases it can be released generally
under an open data license but the same data can be given without
restriction.

Cheerio John

On Sat, Apr 20, 2024, 00:56 David E. Nelson via Talk-ca, <
talk-ca at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> The problem here is that StatCan may have gotten that data from sources
> that are not licence-compatible with OSM, and I am not sure if that would
> jeopardize the use of StatCan's data in OSM.  Did the LWG ever weigh in on
> this concern?
>
> - David E. Nelson
> DENelson83 on OpenStreetMap
>
> On Apr. 19, 2024 19:26, Kevin Farrugia <kevinfarrugia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey David,
>
> I'm on my phone so it's a bit hard to check what cities are included in
> the BC data, but check out the StatsCan LODE address dataset. They
> aggregate and standardize data from local and provincial open data sites
> and their license is approved for OSM.
>
> https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/lode/databases/oda
>
> -Kevin
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2024, 8:38 p.m. David E. Nelson via Talk-ca <
> talk-ca at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
> I would like to see all of the street addresses in Nanaimo in
> OpenStreetMap.  However, it is unfeasible for me to gather this address
> data myself in a ground survey for two reasons: Nanaimo is very sprawled,
> and I live too far away in Courtenay.  So if I am to be able to do this, I
> need to find a third-party database that is as up-to-date as possible, and
> more crucially, is licence-compatible with OSM.  I would then proceed to
> add this data manually, starting with determining using the Overpass API
> which street addresses in Nanaimo are already in OSM, so I do not duplicate
> them.  Do you have any ideas for how I might be able to proceed with this?
>
> - David E. Nelson
> DENelson83 on OpenStreetMap
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