Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2015-07-24 Thread Adam Martin
Reviewing the types that you suggest here, the result seems reasonable. Major Canadian Highways are generally a blend of the two, I find. Type 1 trunks rely on restricted access and the main highways in cities are generally limited in this manner. Likewise, these restrictions lift, in a sense,

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data Imports

2015-07-24 Thread Andrew MacKinnon
For example Hamilton's open data license (http://www2.hamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/C58984A4-FE11-40B9-A231-8572EB922AAA/0/OpenDataTermsAndConditions_Final.html) at first glance seems OK: Your Use of Data: The City of Hamilton grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to

Re: [Talk-ca] Highway recoding

2015-07-24 Thread Daniel Begin
“… [TCH] is automatically a trunk route given that it is, at its most basic point, the central connection between major settlements …” Interesting… it is type 2 definition proposed by Tristan but without the concept of distance. IMHO, It highlights the fact that, depending on how you

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data Imports

2015-07-24 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 2015-07-23 11:54 PM, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: It might be helpful to look at http://openaddresses.io/ which is an project to aggregate address data from various open data portals. I'm a little confused by http://openaddresses.io's licensing: they claim CC0 but retain individual contributor