Sweet! Nothing like a little peer pressure to speed up the process. Across the country there is CERTAINLY some friendly rivelry going on.
Current Score: Toronto is in the lead with local detail, followed closely by Montreal. Although Calgary has some great detail & Origional material. I think Edmonton is James' area. Would be great to see if WMS is available for easy tracing? Would be The article didnt mention Nanaimo, as that was available before Vancouver. :) Sam On 1/15/10, Frank Steggink <[email protected]> wrote: > Speaking about opening up: the City of Edmonton also is opening up its > geodata: http://data.edmonton.ca/ > This was posted here: > http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2010/01/edmonton-opens-up-city-data.html > > All the more reason for other cities and provinces in Canada to follow > suit :) > > Frank > > Sam Vekemans wrote: >> So Quebec (province) has not opened up their dataset yet? >> Good to know. >> Maybe after the NRCan data all gets imported, they might change their mind >> :) >> >> Does anyone have contact with the GIS department directly? >> >> Sam >> >> On 1/15/10, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 22:18 -0500, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote: >>> >>>> We should get in touch with them so we can exchange datasets such as >>>> Municipalités régionales de comté, City boundaries, counties and >>>> administrative regions (at least). >>>> >>> They do have the data (1/20 000) in vector format available for sale for >>> 100$ + conversion rates of 7$ on http://geoboutique.mrnf.gouv.qc.ca . >>> Past that, it's only a question of licences. >>> >>> Pierre-Luc >>> >>> >> >> >> > > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
