Free our Data blog - Talk's of Free Canadian Maps

Posted by Tracey P. Lauriault-2 on Apr 11, 2007; 2:51pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Free-our-Data-blog-Talk-s-of-Free-Canadian-Maps-tp1020.html

Absolutely anyone can play and profit: Canada makes mapping data free
for any use
http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=118

The article does a good review.  It is important for all to know that
this is just one data set - the topo maps that are out of date and this
article happened as a results of a protest in stopping the distribution
of paper topo maps by NRCan (http://www.mapsforcanadians.ca/).  It is
also important to note that these are national scale framework data maps
(Geobase - http://www.geobase.ca/).  The data to fill those shells are
not available - Census, Health, Environment, Transports, Infrastructure,
etc.  The provincial and the municipal data which are very important for
community analysis or cross city comparisons are not at all available
for free.

This NRCan release however sets a nice precedent for the free
distribution of maps.

Cheers
tracey