[OTT_OSGEO] Open Source Geocaoding in Canada

[Sampson, David]

Dave ,

Right now there are a few key people involved right now, Only two of us
on the mailing list... And a special local mention in fact (sorry Frank)

Dan and I are working closely on this right now with Walter supporting
code development. I would love to get more people involved from Ottawa.
I have already used PAGC to produce some of the following sSHP files for
Ottawa:
* police Stations
* fire Stations
* Parks (with civic addresses)
* Hospitals
* Walk in Clinics
* Swimming Pools

I have a list of lists to geocode for Ottawa. But there is a lot of
manual intervention with the datsets as they stand. So they are on hold
until we have a test augmented dataset to work with. 

I have a list of murders in ottawa (for those crime junkies), and the
Ottawa police give out weekly reports on their activity but those use
intersections or street blocks. The code is there for PAGC to use this
info but we need the augmented RNF data for the code to work. PAGC
apparently just flies with the US Tiger Data because all that info is
public domain and included in tiger. CANADA has some limitations.


Who's who?

Source: http://www.pagcgeo.org/project.html

Walter Sinclair: 
Walter wrote the C command line program and authored the program's
documentation. For his day job, Walter is the co-owner of two
independent books stores in Vancouver, British Columbia

Dan Putler: Dan is primarily responsible for developing test cases and
testing PAGC. In his day job, Dan is an Associate Professor of Marketing
at the Sauder School of Business, the University of British Columbia, in
Vancouver

Frank Warmerdam:
PAGC would not be possible without Frank's ShapeLib library.

And then there is me. 

At the last meeting Frank and I discussed PAGC a bit with others quite
interested and offering ideas...  Those ideas are currently being
explored right now... We are in a two steps forward one step back
process.

I can try to do a 5 minute lightning presentation at the next meeting if
people want. I'll ask how long Mike's presentation will be and see if it
might work if we have time at the end.



-----Original Message-----
From: Dave McIlhagga [mailto:dmcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca] 
Sent: September 22, 2006 10:08
To: users at ottawa.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OTT_OSGEO] Open Source Geocaoding in Canada

Dave,

Anyone from this group in Ottawa? Maybe they would like to join us at
the next meeting -- would be good to get some face to face discussions
going on this.

Dave
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Sampson, David wrote:
> Hey OSGEO Ottawa crew,
> 
> A new mailing list has started to support data agmentation of the 
> Statistic Canada Road Network File (RNF). The need is to create a 
> dataset that is open and free for geocoding addresses in Canada. The 
> main project page can be found here (for now):
> 
> _http://www.pagcgeo.org/_
> 
> 
> "We have been working on creating an FSA (or Forward Sortation Area, 
> the first three characters of a Canadian postal code) polygon layer.
> 
> To do this, we are using the 2005 RNF and 2001 Census Division file 
> both from Statistics Canada, along with information from Canada Post 
> on the names of roads that serve as FSA boundaries. We have made some 
> progress at this point, but ultimately there is a fair amount of hand 
> work involved, and we need hands to help.
> 
> Dan
> "
> 
> To join in the discussion or lend a hand please visit our mailing
list:
> can_rnf at geodata.osgeo.org
> 
> Signup on the lists page:
> _https://geodata.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList_
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 

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