Re: [Talk-ca] Orleans entering and finding addresses
Geonames postcode doesn't seem to recognise Canadian post codes or at least the ones I put in which I have entered some time ago. http://www.geonames.org/postalcode-search.html?q=K4A+1M7country=CA However merkley, ontario, ca us found but merkley, orleans, ca is not in OpenStreetMap Nominatim http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ going further K1E3P6,ca points to Merkley Drive on the map with an address of 1675 however this post code is one that should be on tenth line, a street some 500 meters away, which has a number 1675, the numbers on Merkley are all below 1,000. There is no entry I can see in Josm for where the map points to. Could some one please give me the correct way to enter an address. Should the postcode be entered K4A1M7 or K$A 1M7 for example. Does http://openstreetmap.ca/ contain any advice on how to enter addresses so they can be found? Is there a way to find out where K1E3P6,ca gets its information to point to the wrong place so this can be corrected? Thanks John On 25 March 2010 08:31, Adam Glauser adamglau...@gmail.com wrote: john whelan wrote: So whose definition of a City do we use? Perhaps 'place=suburb'(1) would work? This is how the neighbourhoods (Kensington Market, Chinatown, Church-Wellesley Village, etc.) of Toronto have been put on the map.(2) This seems like it would be appropriate for areas like The Glebe too, though I don't think anyone writes The Glebe or Kensington Market on their mail. If I wish to do a search for an address on the map what does GeoNames http://www.geonames.org/ and OpenStreetMap Nominatim http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ use? I haven't been able to find the correct way of searching for places in my area using those services. I think it might have to do with the 'is_in' tag not being set for most objects. (1) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dsuburb (2) http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.6549lon=-79.3829zoom=13layers=B000FTF ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Orleans entering and finding addresses
Just to add complexity K1E3P6,ca has now returned the correct location on the map. Looking in JOSM the postcode on that address is entered K1E3P6 and not as K1E 3P6. Thoughts? Thanks Cheerio John On 25 March 2010 09:26, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: Geonames postcode doesn't seem to recognise Canadian post codes or at least the ones I put in which I have entered some time ago. http://www.geonames.org/postalcode-search.html?q=K4A+1M7country=CA However merkley, ontario, ca us found but merkley, orleans, ca is not in OpenStreetMap Nominatim http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ going further K1E3P6,ca points to Merkley Drive on the map with an address of 1675 however this post code is one that should be on tenth line, a street some 500 meters away, which has a number 1675, the numbers on Merkley are all below 1,000. There is no entry I can see in Josm for where the map points to. Could some one please give me the correct way to enter an address. Should the postcode be entered K4A1M7 or K$A 1M7 for example. Does http://openstreetmap.ca/ contain any advice on how to enter addresses so they can be found? Is there a way to find out where K1E3P6,ca gets its information to point to the wrong place so this can be corrected? Thanks John On 25 March 2010 08:31, Adam Glauser adamglau...@gmail.com wrote: john whelan wrote: So whose definition of a City do we use? Perhaps 'place=suburb'(1) would work? This is how the neighbourhoods (Kensington Market, Chinatown, Church-Wellesley Village, etc.) of Toronto have been put on the map.(2) This seems like it would be appropriate for areas like The Glebe too, though I don't think anyone writes The Glebe or Kensington Market on their mail. If I wish to do a search for an address on the map what does GeoNames http://www.geonames.org/ and OpenStreetMap Nominatim http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ use? I haven't been able to find the correct way of searching for places in my area using those services. I think it might have to do with the 'is_in' tag not being set for most objects. (1) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dsuburb (2) http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.6549lon=-79.3829zoom=13layers=B000FTF ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
[Talk-ca] Orleans
To the east of Ottawa exists the district of Orleans. All roads are actually within the city of Ottawa. Orleans has never existed as a municipal entity, only for Canada Post, essentially it is a collection of postcodes. The correct Postal address for streets and roads is Orleans. Should the city be entered as Orleans as per Canada Post's address or as Ottawa? Thanks John ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Orleans
Hi, I'd use address:city=Orleans on the node or area of the building But only If thats what local people write as their address. The actual 6 character code is what is known. -same thing as 'Etobicoke' where the people who live there dont write 'Toronto'. imo, Sam On 3/24/10, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: To the east of Ottawa exists the district of Orleans. All roads are actually within the city of Ottawa. Orleans has never existed as a municipal entity, only for Canada Post, essentially it is a collection of postcodes. The correct Postal address for streets and roads is Orleans. Should the city be entered as Orleans as per Canada Post's address or as Ottawa? Thanks John -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blogs: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
