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.
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: [email protected] > 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 > > [email protected] > > 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 > > > -- >
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