Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data for Airdrie AB

2019-04-22 Thread john whelan
I believe Toronto has been waiting a couple of years for approval from the LWG to give you some idea of time frames. Cheerio John On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 at 18:05, Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > Hi Joshua, > > Welcome to OSM, and thank you for your contributions! > > To answer your first question: the

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data for Airdrie AB

2019-04-22 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
Hi Joshua, Welcome to OSM, and thank you for your contributions! To answer your first question: the non-building data sets (parks, address points, bus stops, etc) are not currently importable without further effort: we would have to get that exact licence (with text including "City of Airdrie")

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data for Airdrie AB

2019-04-22 Thread OSM Volunteer stevea
John, that was an outstanding overview of and answer to today's quite workable process.  I can only dream that this be written up in whatever now guides this effort in OSM (BC2020 wiki, whatever).  Congratulations on developing what looks like it now does allow and will eventually better allow

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data for Airdrie AB

2019-04-22 Thread john whelan
For building footprints there are two sources of open data that are correctly licensed. One is Microsoft's building footprints and the other is the Stat Can released data. The Stats Canada data is basically the municipal data released under the federal government's licence. I suggest you first

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data for Airdrie AB

2019-04-22 Thread James
While I don't see anything in the license that wouldn't be compatible with OSM except maybe the attribution placement: as osm maintains licenses on the wiki and not in the data it's kind of "not the same project" and you'd have to ask city if attribution in the wiki would be sufficient then go

Re: [Talk-ca] Open Data for Airdrie AB

2019-04-22 Thread Kevin Farrugia
Hi Joshua, The national data that gets mentioned here is actually municipal data rolled up into one federated Federal dataset to avoid licensing issues since the federal license has been approved by OSM. As for the national import, that's for others to update you on  --- Kevin (Kevo) On

[Talk-ca] Open Data for Airdrie AB

2019-04-22 Thread Joshua Kenney
Hello everybody! Relatively new mapper here. I've been working on mapping my home town, and a couple of other places I've been, for the past 3 or 4 months. I have found that my city of Airdrie, AB has a number of datasets available under an Open Data Licence: