Quebec's Open Data portal just points to the city portals which each have their own license....(usually CC-BY)
https://www.donneesquebec.ca/fr/ On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:42 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > We also have to think if we are going with "good enough".... when we want > better the work that will be doubled to make the boundaries better. > > On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Paul Ramsey <pram...@cleverelephant.ca> > wrote: > >> Municipalities are creatures of the provinces, the most likely source of >> complete, correct municipal boundaries will be the provincial government, >> though each municipality will generally know theirs (and sometimes disagree >> with neighbours, hence the utility of using a provincial file if available). >> >> Matching of CSDs with municipal boundaries is something StatsCan will >> attempt to achieve, but it's by no means a guarantee. If the goal is "good >> enough", CSDs are good enough. If the goal is to reflect reality, >> provincial data will always be preferable. >> >> e.g. https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/municipalities >> -legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc >> >> P >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 6:31 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> In purple/black CSD 2016, in gold Gatineau's city limits from their open >>> data portal: >>> http://i.imgur.com/undefined.png >>> >>> The CSDs do not match up with actual city bounds >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Bjenk Ellefsen <bjenk.ellef...@gmail.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing: Census Divisions >>>> are higher level and more regional boundaries. CSDs are municipal >>>> boundaries (in OSM, level 8). http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/s >>>> ubjects/standard/sgc/2011/sgc-intro >>>> >>>> Can you give me an example of city limits that don't match a CSD or is >>>> not in the SGC? Usually, the standard for municipal boundaries are the >>>> CSDs. At least, as far as I know, this is the standard geography. When >>>> referring to actual city limits, which geographical classification is it >>>> referring to? >>>> >>>> Sorry for the questions, I am trying to understand what is the >>>> classification used if its not the CSDs. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:11 AM, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Bernie, I've also noticed that StatsCan boundaries seem to be a >>>>> generalization of an area vs the actual city limits >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Bernie Connors < >>>>> berniejconn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Bjenk, >>>>>> >>>>>> In NB there are issues with some census boundaries not matching >>>>>> with our administrative boundaries. The issue I am aware of was with the >>>>>> county boundaries. The census data that is analogous to our county >>>>>> boundaries included some significant deviations to prevent a municipality >>>>>> from being bisected by a county boundary. Please be careful that there is >>>>>> not a similar issue with the CSD boundaries. NB municipal boundaries can >>>>>> be >>>>>> downloaded from the GeoNB Data Catalogue For comparison to the CSD data. >>>>>> >>>>>> Bernie. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network. >>>>>> *From: *Bjenk Ellefsen >>>>>> *Sent: *Tuesday, March 7, 2017 9:51 AM >>>>>> *To: *talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >>>>>> *Subject: *[Talk-ca] Municipal boundaries >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello, >>>>>> >>>>>> Municipal boundaries correspond to census subdivisions (CSD). I have >>>>>> seen that many municipalities do not have a boundary yet. Is it ok if I >>>>>> start adding some boundaries based on CSDs? Having the boundaries is >>>>>> important to make extractions and analysis at the municipal level. >>>>>> >>>>>> Bjenk >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Talk-ca mailing list >>>>>> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >>>>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 外に遊びに行こう！ >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 外に遊びに行こう！ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-ca mailing list >>> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >>> >>> >> > > > -- > 外に遊びに行こう！ > -- 外に遊びに行こう！
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