Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

2020-06-26 Thread Jason Carlson
There are 3032 roads I've entered so that would take a long time to do it manually. I'm just looking up licensing - it was all created by me, however, I downloaded a shapefile to get the end points for roads I needed to line up with outside our county. It also had parameter fields that they also

Re: [Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

2020-06-26 Thread Jarek PiĆ³rkowski
The limitation is generally licensing. Openstreetmap can accept an import of data that is freely licensed, but the criteria for "freely" are fairly strict - most Canadian cities' "open data" don't meet it. If you're familiar with Creative Commons, the license will likely have to be as free or

[Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

2020-06-26 Thread Jason Carlson
I noticed a number of roads in our county are incorrect in our area (as are most rural areas with next to no population). I recently rebuilt all our GIS road data and submitted it to an organization that then redistributes it to emergency dispatch services and about 25 organizations/companies. I