Posted by
Daniel Haran on
Apr 11, 2007; 3:02pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Free-our-Data-blog-Talk-s-of-Free-Canadian-Maps-tp1020p1021.html
Some interesting quotables in there...
"Ms Martin told me that the previous licensing system was complex: "it
almost cost more to administer than it brought in," she said."
Something our MPs should be reading!
On 4/11/07, Tracey P. Lauriault <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> 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 this is just one data set - the topo maps that are out of date and this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
>
>
>
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