Alberta AMDSP Open Data

Recently I’ve been doing some digging to figure out what license the various rural municipalites in Alberta use for their GIS data, and I stumbled upon the AMDSP (Alberta Municipal Data Sharing Partnership), which provides municipal-level data for over half of Alberta’s municipalities. I also discovered that the data is governed by an Open Government License which is identical to other Canadian OGL’s already approved for use in OSM (this license can be viewed here, at the data download portal: https://amos.amdsp.ca/Views/publicdownload.html)

The AMDSP data provides roads, addresses, and “landmarks” (names of neighborhoods/parks), and includes 263 partner municipalities. These include several major Alberta cities including Red Deer, Medicine Hat, Brooks, Camrose, and a plethora of rural municipalities, small towns, and first nations.

I’ve reached out to the LWG to get the data license “officially” approved, but thought I’d also post it on here, so that more people are aware that this data source can be used. Once the LWG affirms it’s approval I can add the full list of the municipalities covered by AMDSP onto the OSM Canada Wiki.

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Yeah, looks identical to the Alberta OGL. I am going to guess right now that the County of Wetaskiwin is not among those in AMDSP, unfortunately.

County of Wetaskiwin is actually on the list of AMDSP members! One of the tricky parts about this service is that even if a certain municipality is an AMDSP member, that doesn’t mean you can use the data from the municipality’s own website/GIS service (because it could be under a different license). Only the data made available through AMDSP itself is permissible for use.

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