[OSM-talk] Canada road data available?

[Steve Chilton]

Would someone care to investigate this note that appears on the Ogle
Earth blog today:
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Canada roads, for free: Peter Rukavina notes that Canada's National Road
Network is now available as free download as KML, ESRI Shapefile, and
GML. Peter adds:
For anyone interested in GIS, map-hacking and similar pursuits, the NRN
is an amazing dataset. That it's made freely available for any use is a
dramatic departure from usual practice with government data in Canada,
where we usually have to pay for data that is, by all rights, already
"ours."
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Original link at :
http://www.ogleearth.com/index.html

Cheers
STEVE

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