Re: [Talk-ca] Some feedback on import quality in Toronto

2019-02-16 Thread Tim Elrick
Thanks for the heads up. As I said, we are not in a rush here, and will first transfer the discussion to the Montreal list, then start a page on the import wiki and take it from there. On top, the pre-processing will be a bit of work as well. There is lots of data for the City of Montreal

Re: [Talk-ca] Some feedback on import quality in Toronto

2019-02-16 Thread John Whelan
If CC-BY 4.0 works great.  I'd go for any addresses etc and any bus stops you can get hold of as well. Just be aware that we had a fairly large number of questions asked about the license etc when we did Ottawa and one of the people questioning referred the license to the LWG.  Even the basis

Re: [Talk-ca] Some feedback on import quality in Toronto

2019-02-16 Thread Tim Elrick
Hi John, Thanks for pointing me to the license website. The open data of the City of Montreal is licensed CC-BY 4.0 and the City has explicitly granted OSM the right to use the data on top of that. See: http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/portail/licence/ StatsCan's Open Building Database

Re: [Talk-ca] Some feedback on import quality in Toronto

2019-02-16 Thread john whelan
When you look at importing Montreal you might like to look at the following first. https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/OGL_Canada_and_local_variants Note if the Montreal data in available through Stats Can and the federal government open data license it might be better to use that data source