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

Posted by Tracey P. Lauriault-2 on Apr 12, 2007; 3:15am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Free-our-Data-blog-Talk-s-of-Free-Canadian-Maps-tp1020p1023.html

well! Can a bunch of us commit to some good content on a regular basis!  
I can do some and would be willing to do so if others join in!

I have been lovin' the tool making part and the actions and the policy
stuff on the list and some of it is pretty darn fine material i would say!

Hugh McGuire wrote:

> 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.  
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> On Apr 11, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
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>> Absolutely anyone can play and profit: Canada makes mapping data free
>> for any use
>> http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=118
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>> 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 this is just one data set - the topo maps that are out of date and this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.
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>> This NRCan release however sets a nice precedent for the free
>> distribution of maps.
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>> Cheers
>> tracey
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