Posted by
Robin Millette on
Feb 02, 2007; 9:32pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/elections-canada-tp814p833.html
On 2/2/07, Hugh McGuire <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> If I read this page correctly:
>
http://www.statcan.ca/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=92F0193U>
> it costs $500 to get a list of postal codes sorted by electoral
> ridings (not sure how you can then use that data? ... but surely such
> "data" isn't copyrighted? it's just the formatted data right? I mean
> you can't copyright "the list of Canadian postal codes sorted by
> federal ridings," can you?)
Postal codes are facts, and can't be copyrighted. I don't think there
are DB rights yet here either. What this means is, if we aggregate the
info ourselves, we can do what we want with that information, such as
sharing it as we want.
Should the developpers keep exchanging on this list to get to the
gritty details, or can we setup another list - or just a plain to/cc
chain?
I'm rather busy this week unfortunately, but then again, why the
sudden rush? I can help with a few things on the back end, I probably
already have some code and data I scraped a while ago. You can write
me off-list if you think I can help, I won't be able to keep up with
this list for the next couple of days.
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http://rym.waglo.com/