There is some information on the wiki here. https://wiki.openstreetmap. org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia:Vancouver#GIS_sources_by_city. Special permission was obtained from the city for certain datasets only.
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:09 AM, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand Paul Norman arranged for something for the city of Vancouver > Open Data so the data might be imported into OSM. This is independent of > the normal licensing route. > > Cheerio John > > On 2 October 2017 at 14:15, keith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello Canada list, >> >> I am interested in using some of the data provided by the City of >> Vancouver under the "Open Government Licence – Vancouver" ( >> http://vancouver.ca/your-government/open-data-catalogue.aspx#tab19099). >> According to the OSM wiki this is compatible with OSM's licence ( >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Vancouver), is this >> accurate? >> >> I want to do small imports of building traces, manually checking the >> imagery against the Imagery. I guess this should still be considered to >> finish off the section of Vancouver that does not have the buildings >> traced. The quality of the data from the City of Vancouver is OK, not >> amazing, in fact slightly lower than the average for Vancouver building >> traces, but not outside the range. It would be trivial to improve the >> traces to be better than average, and I would do so for what I import. It's >> for a relatively small area, about 2km by 4.5km, and I would be doing lots >> of manual fixes and inspection. So many that I'm not really sure that it's >> exactly an import. >> >> If the building traces goes smoothly, and has general acceptance, I might >> use other data from the listed datasets. >> >> What do the folks on this list say? Am I good to go ahead with this? >> >> Thanks for any input. >> >> Keith >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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