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] 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 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: > >

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

2016-09-14 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 2016-09-14 05:15 PM, john whelan wrote: > http://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/open-data-licence-version-20 This is very neat! I noticed it yesterday, but was too jetlagged from XOXO to say anything. > It should now be aligned with the Federal Government one so that should > mean we

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

2016-09-14 Thread Denis Carriere
That's great news! For anyone interested in adding this data to Ottawa, please send me a private message and I can explain our current workflow. *~~* *Denis Carriere* *GIS Software & Systems Specialist* *Twitter: @DenisCarriere * *OSM: DenisCarriere

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

2016-09-14 Thread john whelan
Robert has just added the water fountains as well. http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/public-drinking-water-fountains Cheerio John On 14 September 2016 at 18:30, john whelan wrote: > I thought it was quite quick as well. Still it gave me something to do in > my retirement

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

2016-09-14 Thread john whelan
I thought it was quite quick as well. Still it gave me something to do in my retirement lobbying for it for the last few years. Cheerio John On 14 September 2016 at 17:19, James wrote: > Only took 3 years.*hurray*! > > On Sep 14, 2016 5:16 PM, "john whelan"

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

2016-09-14 Thread James
Only took 3 years.*hurray*! On Sep 14, 2016 5:16 PM, "john whelan" wrote: > http://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/open-data-licence-version-20 > > It should now be aligned with the Federal Government one so that should > mean we can import the GTFS bus stop

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

2016-09-14 Thread john whelan
http://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/open-data-licence-version-20 It should now be aligned with the Federal Government one so that should mean we can import the GTFS bus stop file. In Ottawa unlike some GTFS files the bus stops are very accurate, they carefully recalibrated each one as