On 11/25/08, Herman Versteeg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately at the end of the second paragraph of this news item it > states; "Under this agreement the GeoBase dataset does not include street > names or street range addresses.". For me address ranges would be nice to > have, but street names are a must.
Shrug. Any upgrade in the data is a win as far as I am concerned. Yes, I would love to have a road name and street number information. Still better to see there is a road from point X1,Y1 to point X2,Y2 than not have that data... So, don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Sure this data may not be ideal, but were it gives us data in areas where we don't currently have any that is a good thing... Colin McGregor > Herman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jason Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 14:01 > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Ontario Road Network > To: Herman Versteeg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > >> Herman Versteeg wrote: >> > Hello, I am very interested in getting some free road data for >> the >> > Ottawa area (where I am an instructor in the GIS program at >> Algonquin >> > College). I came across this web page >> > (http://www.brocku.ca/maplibrary/digital/ORN.html) at Brock >> > University, which states that the Ontario Road Network is in >> the >> > public domain. This web page also refers to the Geography >> Network >> > website >> (http://www.geographynetwork.ca/website/orn/viewer.htm) where >> > the ORN can be downloaded for free. I could not find anything >> on this >> > website about a license The ORN contains driving directions >> and >> > address ranges. Before I investigate this data set further I >> would >> > like to know if anybody here has done so already. >> > Herman >> > --------------------------------------------------------------- >> --------- >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Talk-ca mailing list >> > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > >> The ORN dataset is a component of the Geobase Data that we've >> recently >> been given approval to incorporate into OSM. It sounds like the >> latest >> ORN with the address ranges, etc, is/will be soon in Geobase >> (see >> http://geobase.ca/geobase/en/news/2008/nrn-on.html), so we'll be >> able to >> bring it into OSM once we work out exactly how the import >> process is >> going to work. >> >> -Jason Reid _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
