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Nathalie Leclerc on
Jan 17, 2006; 8:27pm
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Hi
The Social Planning Council of Ottawa has purchased through the Social
Planning Network of Ontario 2001 Census Consortium the shapefile of the
6-digit postal codes point file for Canada. Unfortunately, we don't have the
polygons so we can't create thematic (choropleth) maps but we can still do
decent things with the data.
As for presentation I am program coordinator at the Social Planning Council.
We use GIS to map mostly census variables and service data. We make data
available to community-based organizations and we also have some data
available on our website www.spcottawa.on.ca where we have lots of maps for
the 1996 census or on the bank of knowledge www.spcottawa.on.ca/bok for the
2001 census.
Nathalie Leclerc
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Subject: CivicAccess-discuss Digest, Vol 3, Issue 12
Today's Topics:
1. introduction + municipal FOI (Daniel Haran)
2. Re: introduction + municipal FOI (Tracey P. Lauriault)
3. Re: introduction + municipal FOI (Michael Lenczner)
4. Re: introduction + municipal FOI (Daniel Haran)
5. Re: Postal Code Data, Geomatics and Access (Daniel Haran)
6. Re: Postal Code Data, Geomatics and Access (Tracey P. Lauriault)
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Great work Daniel!
I love all the requests you are making.
The StatCan FSA files are .shp as are the 3 and 6 digit point files. I
had purchased the 1996 and 2001 Census for the Social Planning Council
of Ottawa from DMTI when I worked there. Nathalie (she is on the list!)
any updates on this? We however purchased MapInfo files and not .shp
files since we were not a ESRI GIS shop and did not have the capacity to
do web mapping, mostly we had no programmers and the web technology at
the time was suitable for viewing map and not analysis. And yes there
were many very particular licenses associated with these datasets.
It would be superb to get the Canada Post files on Geobase
(
http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/data/index.html) or on as part of
GeoGratis (
http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/clf/en).
It would be great to get StatCan and the Crown Corporation to release
that data! We did already pay for it. As for recreating it, well, as a
one off is would be sorta easy but maintaining and updating that data is
a big job.
Tracey
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