[Talk-ca] Fwd: BC2020i - update Sept 2018

[Matthew Darwin]

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Subject:BC2020i - update Sept 2018
Date:   Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:54:41 +
From:   Alasia, Alessandro (STATCAN) 
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  – 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  - 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  / 
(613) 796-6049


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[Talk-ca] weeklyOSM #425 2018-09-04-2018-09-10

[weeklyteam]

The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 425,
is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things 
happening in the openstreetmap world:

http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/10709/

Enjoy!

weeklyOSM? 
who: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages 
where?: 
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/weeklyosm-is-currently-produced-in_56718#2/8.6/108.3
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