Monday Census Media Roundup

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Monday Census Media Roundup

updated Census Watch List - http://datalibre.ca/census-watch/

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Tracey P. Lauriault
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[Jonathan Brun-2]

Hi,

As part of Montréal Ouvert (montreaouvert.net) we are looking for two things:

1. An analysis of the benefits of offering open-data (at any level of government)
2. A comparison of cities that are offering open data (their policies, their datasets, quality of datasets).

If anyone knows of such documents, can you please point us in the right direction. If anyone is interested in helping us on doing #2, please let me know.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

Jonathan;

a good place to start is http://delicious.com/ seach tags civicaccess and coacid.

Perhaps you can do the same when you come across online docs.  There are about 400 some in there right now that have been tagged 3 years or so.

Also, a good reminder for others to do the same when you find useful information.

Cheers
t

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Jonathan Brun <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

As part of Montréal Ouvert (montreaouvert.net) we are looking for two things:

1. An analysis of the benefits of offering open-data (at any level of government)
2. A comparison of cities that are offering open data (their policies, their datasets, quality of datasets).

If anyone knows of such documents, can you please point us in the right direction. If anyone is interested in helping us on doing #2, please let me know.

Thanks,

Jonathan
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[john whelan]

OpenStreetMap is currently importing a lot of data from CANVEC which
is high quality and has reasonable licensing.

City of Ottawa has released some data but under very restrictive
licensing which they are now revisiting, try to get the data out
without the licensing problems.  Google requests its own set of
licensing from providers which is much more liberal than is often
being provided under open data, some transit authorities are now
questioning if they should release the data to Google under the Google
license.

Comment from one of the local developers is here:

http://www.dataott.org/app/need/show/6

Other local resources are here:

http://www.dataott.org/app/

http://ottawa.ca/online_services/opendata/index_fr.html

Much of the data is geographical in nature so lends itself to being
incorporated in maps Ca-talk is a useful place to find people with a
mapping background.  http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Cheerio John


On 13 August 2010 08:40, Jonathan Brun <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As part of Montréal Ouvert (montreaouvert.net) we are looking for two things:
>
> 1. An analysis of the benefits of offering open-data (at any level of government)
> 2. A comparison of cities that are offering open data (their policies, their datasets, quality of datasets).
>
> If anyone knows of such documents, can you please point us in the right direction. If anyone is interested in helping us on doing #2, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
> _______________________________________________
> CivicAccess-discuss mailing list
> [hidden email]
> http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss
>