Posted by
Russell McOrmond-2 on
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Copyright-Consultation-tp1740p1748.html
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, Sandy Ward wrote:
> With all the copyright stuff going on it is fitting to talk about Postal
> Codes and the control Canada Post has over them.
I'm wondering if anyone has got anywhere with discussing this with
Canada Post.
With my own investigations for a database to translate postal codes to
electoral districts I started with Elections Canada who said that they
would not compete with Statistics Canada who sold the data. Statistics
Canada said the data is part of their data liberation for Schools/etc, but
that NGO/etc would have to pay large fees.
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/search/node/PCFRF We could derive the same data by taking electoral district maps which
are already publicly available
http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/option/select.do?id=1169 , and
correlate them with postal code maps if they were made available. I could
immagine the PostGIS query to do this (New things to learn), but don't
have the postal code vector file.
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