[Spam/Pourriel] Re: [RNFdev] FSA's to be released

[Sampson, David]

Well, I'm still in.... I might have some free time coming up for
processing, so I'll keep checking for the CSD's...

I thought the FSA might be too good to be true.

Cheers. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Putler [mailto:putler at sauder.ubc.ca] 
Sent: October 17, 2006 14:26
To: can_rnf at geodata.osgeo.org
Subject: [Spam/Pourriel] Re: [RNFdev] FSA's to be released

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