and Electoral boundaries and postal codes come to mind. Any others?
> we discussed this previously, and i can't remember where we got ...
> but here is an idea:
>
> a simple, straight-forward form letter to government agencies,
> requesting info on:
> 1. whether their data is available to the public
> 2. what the costs are
> 3. what the license is
> 4. what the format is
>
> then a simple statement: "we believe all levels of Canadian
> governments should make civic information and data accessible at no
> cost in open formats to their citizens."
>
> then send this to all relevant agencies (we would need to make a
> list), and cc to the relevant minister (also in the list).
>
> i have done this in a very ad-hoc manner, by email on various issues,
> but have not really recorded or processed the responses...and actually
> there are a number of agencies who DO give data away in nice formats
> for free - and these are important in our efforts to convince other
> government groups.
>
> thoughts?
>
>
> On Jun 27, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Gabe Sawhney wrote:
>
>> For the record, I've transferred all the pages from the civicaccess
>> wiki to a new wiki at civicaccess.pwd.ca... hopefully this will
>> eliminate the spam issue. The full switchover will happen as soon as
>> we can ensure that the mailing list will survive the domain
>> transition safely.
>>
>> Feel free to begin adding/modifying pages on
>>
http://civicaccess.pwd.ca -- these will be preserved when the domain
>> change happens. *Don't* make any changes to the "old" wiki at
>>
http://civicaccess.ca for the moment, because any new changes will
>> not be reflected on the new wiki.
>>
>> The new wiki software is DokuWiki -- the formatting is a little
>> different than MoinMoin, and I apologize that there's a bit of a
>> learning curve. DokuWiki is a great, light-weight wiki which I use
>> for several projects, and with which I haven't (yet?) had a problem
>> with spam. If ever anyone does see spam on the new wiki, please let
>> me know so that it can be dealt with before it becomes a problem.
>>
>> Gabe
>>
>>
>> On 6/26/07, *Hugh McGuire* <
[hidden email]
>> <mailto:
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>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Mike Lenczner suggests that it's not clear whether datalibre.ca
>> <
http://datalibre.ca> is
>> *my* project or a group project.
>>
>> datalibre.ca <
http://datalibre.ca> came about because it seemed
>> that people did not wish to
>> have blog.civicaccess.ca <
http://blog.civicaccess.ca>, but rather
>> something parallel, but open to
>> anyone who wishes to participate. the first idea was to just have a
>> place to put discussions/info from this list out in the public,
>> as it
>> seems a shame to have it all stuck behind the walls of this
>> discussion group.
>>
>> anyway, datalibre.ca <
http://datalibre.ca> is meant to be a place
>> to put that info to the
>> public ... and whatever else people wish to do with it.
>>
>> In any case, I do hope others interested in this data will consider
>> posting at datalibre.ca <
http://datalibre.ca>. Let me know if you
>> are interested, and I'll
>> give you a login and add you to the about page etc.
>>
>> And for the record, whatever happens on there is up to those who wish
>> to participate.
>>
>> so please let me know if you do have interest in contributing,
>> however you might want to do so. As mentioned, I wanted to catch and
>> post some info pages with stuff from civicaccess.ca
>> <
http://civicaccess.ca>, but most of the
>> good stuff seems to be gone now.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Hugh.
>>
>>
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