[I guess Bernie's original subject of ‘G8 leaders sign open data charter of principles’ might've made this important announcement sink without trace.]
Bernie Connors wrote: > > Is there an official OSM opinion on the compatibility of the Open > Government Licence and OpenStreetMap? Here is a link to the licence > on the data.gc.ca website – > > http://www.data.gc.ca/eng/open-government-licence-canada It would be very helpful if it were deemed acceptable. The somewhat damp few who made it out to the Toronto Mappy Hour last night discussed it, but couldn't come up with anything official. I've found several potentially interesting data sets already, including the TAFL/LTAF licensed transmitter table, so we could improve Canadian man_made=tower for comms towers. These data are also available on the unnecessarily-difficult-to-use Spectrum Direct site, and appear to be provincewide dumps of the same database. TAFL/LTAF data here: http://data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset?keywords=TAFL&page=1 Note that, where these data include locations, they are only to integer [D]DD° MM' SS' values (and coded as fixed length strings, alas). Locations would need truing up and checking for duplicates against existing towers. The file format is still a bit unpleasant, but at least you don't have to fight with the Spectrum Direct server timing out on big queries. (why yes, you do note some frustration in my tone there…) cheers Stewart _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
