Hi David,
The coverage area of the shapefile sets is much more limited. In terms
of tools to look at the data, there are some nice (multi-platform) open
source ones available. In particular, you might want to check out QGIS
(www.qgis.org). It is considered the easiest of the open source desktop
GIS tools to learn, and there documentation is really extensive.
Dan
On 11/01/2010 02:29 PM, David Wetzel wrote:
Hi,
I have no tools to view that data, but as I understand the coverage is like you
see on here:
http://www.regionaldistrict.com/rdco_main/
So if we could import that data into OSM it would be a big step forward.
My street is not even on OSM.
David
Am 01.11.2010 um 13:59 schrieb Dan Putler:
Hi David,
It looks like this data is being released into the Public Domain. The relevant
part of their terms of use statement (which is for the download site, not the
data itself) is:
Geographic data is now available through this download site. This data is being
made available to you free of any restrictive licences. In order to access the
Regional District of Central Okanagan geographic data download service it is
necessary to read, understand, and accept the terms of use for this service.
Reading through the entire statement, most of the rest boils down to the data is being
released as is, where is, and they make no claim of accuracy, usability, and so on. In
other words, "here it is, and, by the way, you can't sue us if it is wrong."
I've pulled down the roads and address points data. The main issue is that the data only
covers areas that are not in one of the municipalities in the Central Okanagan Regional
District (so no data for Kelowna, Peachland, Westbank, etc.), or at least for the two
layers I downloaded.
Dan
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