Re: [Talk-ca] script for changing existing CA postcodes?

2010-03-26 Thread john whelan
Currently we don't have a working solution for searching on postcodes in Canada. Whilst I realise the interests of many don't include postcodes condensing them down to six characters would give us a working solution today even if the script had to be run say once a month. Once we have a permanent

Re: [Talk-ca] script for changing existing CA postcodes?

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:20 PM, john whelan wrote: > Would it be possible for someone to write a script and execute it that went > through the OSM database and where country=CA change the format for the > existing post codes to remove the space to make them searchable? > > If some one could point

[Talk-ca] script for changing existing CA postcodes?

2010-03-26 Thread john whelan
Would it be possible for someone to write a script and execute it that went through the OSM database and where country=CA change the format for the existing post codes to remove the space to make them searchable? If some one could point me at a bit of sample code I could probably write the script.

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian postcodes

2010-03-26 Thread john whelan
It would seem the pragmatic approach would be to enter postcodes without the space for the moment, and have a script run down them all if ever it gets sorted out. Cheerio John On 26 March 2010 09:16, Emilie Laffray wrote: > > > On 26 March 2010 14:11, john whelan wrote: > >> If I do a search "

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian postcodes

2010-03-26 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 26 March 2010 14:11, john whelan wrote: > If I do a search "en3 6rg,gb" it returns a UK location correctly. > en36rg,gb also returns the same results. > > For Canada k1e3p6,ca returns a lcation but "k1e 3p6,ca" does not. > > Can this be fixed please? > > Would some one like to give some guidel

[Talk-ca] Canadian postcodes

2010-03-26 Thread john whelan
If I do a search "en3 6rg,gb" it returns a UK location correctly. en36rg,gb also returns the same results. For Canada k1e3p6,ca returns a lcation but "k1e 3p6,ca" does not. Can this be fixed please? Would some one like to give some guidelines on entering Canadian addresses please. Many thanks

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] Vancouver campus data

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Gregory wrote: > Please let me know your thoughts. I originally wandered if it's worth it > (it's not a large scale import) but I think it would give me valuable import > experience (including the agreement side) and in the short time I'm still > here it might aid

[Talk-ca] Vancouver campus data

2010-03-26 Thread Gregory
To imports and talk-ca mailing list, As you may know, I'm in Canada until May studying at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver. I'm doing one class in GIS and this week the teacher just introduced us to some data on the geography computers we can use for our project. It is from the

[Talk-ca] Canadian Tagging Guidlines

2010-03-26 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi all, I did some major work on the wiki about this. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines When i was chatting with the mapper in Empress, Alberta he noticed that i changed the tag of the outside rim of the residential area of the town. Because these are often dirt roads,