http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Show-your-support-for-open-gov-data-at-ibelieveinopen-ca-tp1231p1259.html
Um, it's ibelieveinopen.ca. Open. :-)
And yes, I will be sharing the postal codes that the site legally collects. Although, as people have pointed out, it will inevitably be an incomplete set.
> From: Robin Millette <
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> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] Guerilla Open Access
> To:
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> Received: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 4:09 PM
> Le Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:54:11 -0400,
> "Tracey P. Lauriault" <
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> a écrit :
>
> > Hey Heather!
> >
> > ibelieveincanada.ca initiative is partially inspired
> by civicaccess.ca and
> > many other initiatives primarily in the US, so keep
> the button! The person
> > who developed the initiative is a list member of
> civicaccess.ca but it is
> > not a civicaccess.ca led project.
>
> Why is
http://ibelieveincanada.ca/ showing its head in this
> discussion? Aside from encouraging people to show what they
> believe in (Openness), they're also building a database
> of postal codes to district relationships without infringing
> any copyright and they're going to share this data.
>
> Daniel's project is also something I understand fully,
> having done the same thing last year.
>
> Finally, if you have 3000$ you can have unlimited access to
> the
http://www.makethechange.ca/ web service to provide the
> same postal code to district relationship.
>
> Of course, we (on this list, I would assume) all want this
> data (and so much more!) to be equally accessible. At least
> this multiprong approach has the advantage of putting
> pressure on many sides of the equation.
>
> P.S.: I'll be adding links (or data, when it becomes
> available) from
http://cancan.waglo.com/ to
>
http://ibelieveincanada.ca/ and as many sources as I can
> find in the short term. Let me know if you have any
> suggestions.
>
> --
> Robin Millette
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