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

Posted by Hugh McGuire on Apr 11, 2007; 3:08pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Free-our-Data-blog-Talk-s-of-Free-Canadian-Maps-tp1020p1022.html

ahem: let's set up a freeourdata.ca blog and make some of the interesting discussions we have on this list available to the public.  

h.


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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this is just one data set - the topo maps that are out of date and this 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 
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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