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Subject: BC2020i - update Sept 2018
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:54:41 +0000
From: Alasia, Alessandro (STATCAN) <alessandro.ala...@canada.ca>
To: many
Dear all,
I hope you had a good and relaxing summer. I imagine this email will
find you all back in the office or at your activity.
I have been in touch with many over the summer and I know that
numerous things are moving and brewing, which is great! At our end we
have continued working on our open database of building (we expect
this to be shared soon). It has now passed the 4.3 million mark for
number of building footprints.
In terms of *updates from our end*, we recently established a
collaborative agreement with the Bing Maps team (Microsoft) in the
hope that, by joining forces and avoiding duplication of efforts, what
they did in the US can be replicated in Canada (see
https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data).
Additionally, we started a dialogue with OpenAddresses to explore
collaborations and, most recently, began work on an Open Business
Repository, which mimics the approach of OpenAddresses but uses open
business records. The preliminary results on these and other open data
explorations are very encouraging.
In various conversations, I learned that a lot of great work has been
done at your end as well! And talking with some of you, *the idea of a
second meeting on the topic of BC2020i has been tossed around*. Since
the initiative has matured, slowly but surely, I think it would be
great to get together again, take a stock of where we are at, and see
what the next steps could be. Like last year, I think we may be able
to offer the venue.
With that said, if a second meeting (say “*BC2020i-2*”) is organized,
I would hope it to be a bit more focused. An ideal outcome coming out
of BC2020i-2 could be the following:
·Stronger buy-in from some of the key federal departments interested
in building data
·Greater involvement (maybe sponsorship J?) from some of the key
players in the private sector who have shown a great interest in
supporting open data platforms, which could help smaller businesses,
NGOs, and students/academics to become more involved.
·More awareness and highlighting of some of the
local-municipal-regional initiatives. I heard of very interesting work
happening in the Niagara region, for instance. And same for the work
that has been done by many academic departments (I just had a chat
with a graduate student from the University of Waterloo who is
researching the BC2020i)
·And of course, it would be great if this could be an opportunity to
solidify the presence of OSM-Canada in the institutional arena (as an
institutional player as well?)
One way to re-think BC2020i is by placing it in the context of a *data
co-op*. And now that this initiative is past its infancy, how can we
solidify this data co-op for the benefit of all?
It would be great if we can share ideas on all of the above. My team
and I remain committed to facilitating this and moving the discussion
forward. Ideally, *we could target a date in January 2019* for a
second meeting. Ottawa is such a lovely place to visit in that
season…we have a frozen canal and beaver tails! – the latter being
essentially a flat doughnut.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Alessandro and the DEIL-Team
*PS.*Over the fall my team and I will present our work on open data as
well as make reference to the ideas of BC2020i in many different
places and we hope to see you in person at some of these events. In
particular we will be at:
·Sept 28 - Open First Day <https://canada-ca.github.io/ofd-joep> – Ottawa
·Oct 26-28 – People, Places, and Public Engagement Conference - St.
John’s, NFL
·Nov 6-9 - StatCan International Methodological Symposium - Ottawa
·Nov 7-9 – CODS18 <https://opendatasummit.ca/> - Niagara Falls (to be
confirmed)
·Nov – GIS Day – probably at McGill- Montreal (to be confirmed)
·A longer list of seminars and workshops with Fed Departments
Alessandro Alasia
Chief | Chef
Data Exploration and Integration Lab (DEIL) | Lab pour l’exploration
et l’intégration de données (LEID)
Center for Special Business Projects | Centre des Projets Spéciaux sur
les entreprises
Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada
alessandro.ala...@canada.ca <mailto:alessandro.ala...@canada.ca> /
(613) 796-6049
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