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Forgot to mention this....
Daniel Faivre is giving a paper at the Open Source GIS conference (http://www.omsug.ca/osgis2004/) titled "Public Geodata License: Open source license initiative for geographical data". I am going, and can submit an update on Slashdot if he says anything interesting.
Re:Canada?
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· Score: 2, Informative
Geobase has been a great source for my work (http://www.geobase.ca/) in Canada but it does not have detailed vector maps. Great source of data for Landsat and DEM's where available.
If you need maps in BC, they have opened up a lot of data. Check out http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/MapPlace/. The site is a little convoluted but there are some really good data there for free.
Word on the street is that Canada is opening up more and more data. The tax payers paid for the data so we should have rightful access to it.
You can also check out http://www.cits.rncan.gc.ca/, you have to pay for this data. But my understanding is that more and more of this data will be moving over to geobase. I could be wrong though...
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Forgot to mention this.... Daniel Faivre is giving a paper at the Open Source GIS conference (http://www.omsug.ca/osgis2004/) titled "Public Geodata License: Open source license initiative for geographical data". I am going, and can submit an update on Slashdot if he says anything interesting.
Geobase has been a great source for my work (http://www.geobase.ca/) in Canada but it does not have detailed vector maps. Great source of data for Landsat and DEM's where available. If you need maps in BC, they have opened up a lot of data. Check out http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/MapPlace/. The site is a little convoluted but there are some really good data there for free.
Word on the street is that Canada is opening up more and more data. The tax payers paid for the data so we should have rightful access to it.
You can also check out http://www.cits.rncan.gc.ca/, you have to pay for this data. But my understanding is that more and more of this data will be moving over to geobase. I could be wrong though...