OpenStreetMap
Brampton Address Import & Conflation
Posted by GridRecce_Import on 11 November 2025 in English. Last updated on 26 November 2025.The goal of this project is to improve address coverage in the City of Brampton on OpenStreetMap by verifying and adding missing address information using open data provided through the Brampton GeoHub. The DATASET includes authoritative municipal address points, which serve as a reliable source for accurate street names, house numbers, and related attributes.
Data Source: - Dataset: Municipal Address Points - License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) - Attribution: “Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Brampton.”
Scope: - City of Brampton only - Single-family dwellings and clearly matched building polygons
26 Nov 2025, Edit: Project paused until a suitable dataset with a compatible usage license can be obtained. Thank you to users pointing out the Brampton license may not cover OSM usage.
Discussion
Comment from Glassman on 12 November 2025 at 17:08
It would be great to see an import of addresses (and buildings, if possible) for Brampton. But please make sure to comply with the requirements to use CC By 4.0 in OSM
Comment from Johnwhelan on 23 November 2025 at 14:01
There is a process for imports.
Have you checked to see if the information is available through Stats Canada and the federal government open data portal. Often the same data is available but under a different license which is acceptable.
If it is then use that source as it does comply with OSM import rules.
John
Comment from skfd on 24 November 2025 at 16:33
same thing can be done for whole toronto too. city has great dataset. what’s your process?
Comment from Johnwhelan on 24 November 2025 at 17:26
osm.wiki/Potential_datasources/Local_data look for Canada.
Toronto is fine and has been approved by LWG but many other municipalities license does not work.
Cheerio John
Comment from Johnwhelan on 24 November 2025 at 18:12
It appears that Brampton open data is not licensed for inclusion in OSM but the same data is available through stats can.
You can request the Legal Working Group review the license, this normally takes a couple of years or I suggest you use the Stats Canada source for the data.
Cheerio John
“The addresses are in the StatsCan data, as when I ran Peel’s open data they informed me they were pulling out addresses from our site for their program.
If they pulled Peel’s I don’t see why they’d pull Brampton’s separately since Peel covers Brampton.
So they can use the SC addresses as a source but not Brampton’s since OSM LWG considers the city’s name changing in the license to be a new license.
Kevin”