The issue is the "quality" of the data. In Ottawa the local mappers felt it was acceptable so that works for Ottawa.
Does anyone on the mailing list object to a local community of one importing the buildings that are local to them? Thanks John On Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 12:41 PM Joshua Kenney, <kenney...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for that update on the current status of the building import! I've > checked the Stats Canada site, and they do indeed have the up-to-date > building data from Airdrie (although stripped of the height and elevation > tags). I seem to be the only active mapper in Airdrie, is it possible for > me to move ahead with importing that part of the data? I'd certainly look > for more mappers to discuss with if I decide to move on to more of Alberta. > > --Joshua > > On 2019-04-22 15:15, john whelan wrote: > > 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 check with James and ask him if your city's data is in > the Stat Can data set. > > The next step having sorted out a source of open data that has an approved > licence is to work out a process to include the data. > > There is a single import of the Stat Can buildings in progress. However a > Toronto mapper took exception to a million buildings being added mainly in > the West of Canada and asked the DWG to remove them. > > A group of three mappers are looking at ways to "cleanse" the data using > open source software. Once they have arrived at an agreed acceptable > solution then I assume the Canada wide building import will continue in > some way. > > So you can hang on or you can submit your own import plan. To do this the > local mappers have to be in agreement. In Ottawa this meant we met over > coffee. > > Then you need to formally write up an import plan in the wiki. Submit it > to the import mailing list and answer any queries they may have. In this > case Nate will probably say it is already covered in the current Canada > wide import plan so why introduce yet another plan. It also has to be > listed somewhere or other as an import. > > It also has to be discussed in this mailing group. > > The City of Ottawa was kind enough to adopt the municipal version of the > federal government's open data licence. It took about five years from > start to finish to get them to be nice and adopt it. It has been formally > approved by the legal working group. If you can get your city to adopt the > same licence great. In Ottawa it meant we could bring in bus stops etc. > > Any other licence should either be approved by the Legal Working Group or > you can put your own interpretation on it. If challenged at a later date > your imported data could be removed so I don't recommend this route. > > In short if you have a couple of local mappers in agreement that they > would like to import the data, and if it is available via Stat Can and they > find the data quality acceptable then ask to be permitted to import it on > this mailing list. James maybe able to assist. Only if this route is not > available should you think about doing something else. > > Cheerio John > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 3:42 PM Joshua Kenney, <kenney...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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: >> >> http://data-airdrie.opendata.arcgis.com/pages/our-open-licence >> The licence terms look straight forward enough, are there any additional >> steps I need to take to confirm compatibility with OSM? >> >> One of the datasets includes building footprints. Would importing that >> get in the way of the import of the national data? Where can I access the >> national data to compare the quality? >> >> --Joshua >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> > >
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