On Apr 11, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
Absolutely anyone can play and profit: Canada makes mapping data free
for any use
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this is just one data set - the topo maps that are out of date and this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
also important to note that these are national scale framework data maps
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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