Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa has changed its Open Data licence.

2016-09-15 Thread john whelan
When I spoke to the head of OC transpo he assured me that OC transpo has full rights to the information as it created the set of where the bus stops are and maintains this information for disabled access reasons. OC is 100% owned by the city of Ottawa. Cheerio John On 15 September 2016 at 14:13,

Re: [Talk-ca] Canvec attributes (roads)

2016-09-15 Thread Begin Daniel
Martjin, You can get current information about how old/accurate the data are using the above link. http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/-/(urn:iso:series)geobase-national-road-network-nrn?sort-field=relevance To get the answer you need to look at the metadata: You select the area

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa has changed its Open Data licence.

2016-09-15 Thread Stewart Russell
On Sep 15, 2016 08:08, "Kevin Farrugia" wrote: > > I think Stewart means make sure that the City has the rights to distribute it if the data is created by some third party. Thanks, Kevin. That's exactly what I meant. As was mentioned on the thread I linked to, a UK open

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa has a new Open Data licence.

2016-09-15 Thread Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN)
John, this is great! So, that means you can use the address file, its online right? I also have another file that is not on the portal and it contains well over 300,000 buildings which most are not on OSM. How shall we proceed with that file? We are still putting those up on the federal portal

[Talk-ca] Kids daycare

2016-09-15 Thread Дмитрий Киселев
Hi, I'have relocated to Canada Halifax recently, and just want to say hello, and maybe find some mappers around. Also, how you guys map daily childcare centers? As kindergatens with some additional tags or any other tags? -- Thank you for your time. Best regards. Dmitry.

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa has changed its Open Data licence.

2016-09-15 Thread Kevin Farrugia
I think Stewart means make sure that the City has the rights to distribute it if the data is created by some third party. For example, some cities get their building footprints from their orthoimagery provider (they're created as part of the orthorectification process) while others digitize them

Re: [Talk-ca] Ottawa has changed its Open Data licence.

2016-09-15 Thread john whelan
I'm fairly certain that the city owns the bus stops and doesn't rent them from a third party. Do you have an example of what to look for for the GTFS data? Thanks John On 14 September 2016 at 22:18, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > On 2016-09-14 05:15 PM, john whelan wrote: > >