Last May the City of Vancouver passed a motion endorsing open data, open standards, and leveling the playing field for open source software procurement.
In January the City of Edmonton opened Edmonton’s open data catalogue, which makes city data including geospatial data openly available. All data on data.edmonton.ca is available under a world-wide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license. You are not even required to credit the City (attribution) for using or reproducing the datasets. But you may not use any official emblem or logo of the City or claim any affiliation with the City, without the City’s prior written consent.
In November of last year the City of Toronto launched Toronto.ca/open, the City of Toronto’s official beta data set catalogue, which provides open access to City data. The terms are a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, modify, and distribute the datasets in all current and future media and formats. Attribution is not required. But you cannot use an emblem or logo of the City or claim an association with the City without prior consent.
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