<div dir="ltr">The NTv2 GSB[1] for Canada is shared under the "Open Government License - Canada"[2].<div><br></div><div>I made a request some years ago and they did it! So it's definitely a good step forward.<div><br></div><div>I'm not a license guru so not sure if it can be packaged and redistributed with FOSS (ie, QGIS or proj).</div><div><br></div><div>I know for provincial (cause I'm in British Columbia) the Provincial Government has their own GSB for distribution, albeit a different and non-open license (I've asked for it to be switched to open license as well). I tend to use those, so asking with Provincial agencies/ministries would be a good bet too.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/b3534942-31ea-59cf-bcc3-f8dc4875081a">http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/b3534942-31ea-59cf-bcc3-f8dc4875081a</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada">http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Andre Joost <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andre+joost@nurfuerspam.de" target="_blank">andre+joost@nurfuerspam.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Am 01.04.2016 um 09:18 schrieb Neumann, Andreas:<br>
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Maybe it would also be more user friendly, if QGIS would already deliver<br>
the grid shift files for most countries. But that would bloat QGIS quite<br>
a bit. The grid shift file for Switzerland (one of the smallest<br>
countries in the world) is already 3 MB. Maybe a grid shift file manager<br>
and repository would help for downloading, installing and deleting the<br>
files and for setting it up properly for easy usage.<br>
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Grid shift files are not always for free, and free ones might not be allowed to be distributed by others (like on <a href="http://qgis.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">qgis.org</a>).<br>
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See<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/wiki" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/wiki</a><br>
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<a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/wiki/NonFreeGrids" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4/wiki/NonFreeGrids</a><br>
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<a href="http://downloads2.esri.com/support/TechArticles/Grid-based_Transformation_Methods_for_Canada3.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://downloads2.esri.com/support/TechArticles/Grid-based_Transformation_Methods_for_Canada3.pdf</a><br>
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for more details.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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HTH,<br>
André Joost<br>
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