I've notified the city of Mississauga (Ontario) about Surrey's Open Data policy. So now they are 'looking into it' :)
cheers, Sam On 11/4/10, Paul Norman <[email protected]> wrote: > I talked to someone with their GIS department today and they plan on > releasing their 2010 orthographs in a few days. They also plan on > downsampling the data because each tile is ~1 GB, leading to a total size of > 120 GB or so. I'm also talking with them about getting the data from the > edges which are outside their tile system but photographed. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:talk-ca- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Norman >> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 3:21 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Talk-ca] Surrey Data >> >> The City of Surrey has released their GIS data under the PDDL at >> http://www.surrey.ca/city-services/658.aspx >> >> Included in this is addresses for the entire city, lamp posts, manholes. >> I've glanced at some of the files in ArcGIS Explorer and the level of >> detail in them is excessive if anything. That being said, I wonder if >> there's some stuff worth importing. >> >> What interested me is the orthography data, being PDDL. They have 2008 >> in GeoTiffs at http://www.surrey.ca/city-services/4911.aspx and a 2010 >> slippymap at >> http://cosmos.surrey.ca/ArcGIS/rest/services/ORTHO2010/MapServer >> >> The 2008 are 40cm resolution color, and the 2010 are 10cm resolution >> color. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ca Canadian OSM channel (an open chat room) @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
