Stats Canada (StatsCan) Mapping your community through crowdsourcing

StatsCanada has made an interesting announcement regarding a crowdsourcing effort. From a recent announcement, “we have officially launched the crowdsourcing campaign for the pilot project “Mapping your community through crowdsourcing.”

From StatsCan:

Using your knowledge of your neighbourhood in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, along with an online mapping tool called OpenStreetMap, you and other members of the public will be able to input the location, physical attributes and other features of local buildings.

You can

visit the map editor application and start mapping
select buildings and provide information by filling out the form on the map editor application
place a marker if you know about a shop, service or business at a specific location, and fill out as much of the form as you can
map your own business.

Please note that this is a pilot project developed in collaboration with a community of stakeholders. As such, the open source application is in a testing phase and may not fulfill all of the users’ needs with regards to accessibility.

When you are ready, click one of the following to start:

See more at Mapping your community through crowdsourcing

As a project contributor, you can help create a free and open source of information on commercial, industrial, government and other buildings in Canada. We need your support to close this important data gap! Your work will improve your community’s knowledge of its buildings, and in turn inform policies and programs designed to help you.