Teranet is a corporation that is the sole provider to the electronic Ontario land registry data. I doubt you'll get it free from the Region or from Teranet since both make money off of releasing the data. Even the university I go (Waterloo) to has very strict rules to not distribute data for either of these when we use it.
Still try if you'd like, but it's just my "warning" on the likelihood, Kevin ------Original Message------ From: James A. Treacy Sender: talk-ca-boun...@openstreetmap.org To: William Rieck Cc: talk-ca Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] municipal government GIS data Sent: 7 Oct 2009 3:03 PM On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:38:01PM -0400, William Rieck wrote: > I've noticed Waterloo region has extensive GIS data available on their > website with respect to land use, property lines, building locations, etc. I > would guess this would be a common scenario across Canada. > > My question, "What is the status of the availability of this data for use in > OSM, or is this still an open question that needs to be followed?" >From the license on http://maps.region.waterloo.on.ca/locator/locator.htm > Licence Restrictions. > Unless otherwise specified you, the user, may not copy, modify, distribute, > transmit, display, reproduce, publish, licence, create derivative works from , > link to or frame in another web site, use on any other web site, transfer or > sell the site products in whole or in part either voluntarily or by operation > of > law. The foregoing prohibition expressly includes, but is not limited to, the > practice of screen scraping, database scraping or any such practice or > activity; > the purpose of which is to obtain data or portions thereof, portions of > databases from the Locator, in any manner or any quantities not expressly > authorized. > > Parcel (property) information is obtained by the Regional Municipality of > Waterloo from TERANET Incorporated and is subject to copyright (©) > infringement > laws. This obviously precludes us from using the data from the web site. I suspect that the company, TERANET, got the original data from the region and simply put it into a reasonable form for use on the internet. I wouldn't be surprised if the region pays them for accessing their own data (our data really, as our taxes are supporting this). What we need to do is see if we can get the original data so it can be added to Openstreetmap. As an aside: One thing I notice is that school board property is not displayed distinctly. I hope there is a source for this as it would be very useful. -- James Treacy tre...@debian.org _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca -- Kevin Farrugia kevinfarru...@gmail.com Sent with BlackBerry _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
