[RNFdev] FSA's to be released

[Dan Putler]

The FSA boundaries will most likely _not_ be released under the free  
use license. Postal oriented products (such as the Postal Code  
Conversion File) is where StatsCan makes a lot of their cost recovery  
money on the Census. Moreover, the StatsCan FSA boundaries (or at  
least those for the 2001 Census) aren't faithful to the true FSA  
boundaries, they are actually true to DA boundaries, so if a DA  
straddles two different FSAs, the FSA boundaries will be altered to  
place the the DA in a single FSA.

Your lists are still needed. In some sense, what we are really doing  
is trying to provide Canada Post a reason to loosen their grip a bit.

Dan

On 17-Oct-06, at 11:13 AM, Sampson, David wrote:

> Did you notice the FSA files in the third quarter of 2007? That's  
> kinda
> cool.... So much for my lists... :)
>
> But maybe it will help in the mean time anyhow.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Putler [mailto:putler at sauder.ubc.ca]
> Sent: October 17, 2006 14:10
> To: can_rnf at geodata.osgeo.org
> Subject: [RNFdev] Today's StatsCan announcement
>
> Today StatsCan announced their planned release schedule for 2006  
> Census
> digital boundary files. The link to the announcement is:
>
> http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/reference/preview/digital-
> boundary.cfm
>
> Tomorrow seems to be the big day for us.
>
> Dan