That would be fine, I'd figure, as you didn't use Canada Post to acquire
the address. The business website is designed, in principle, to allow the
free use of the information as it wants customers to find them and use
their services.
This is much like adding your own address. Can't be any argument
> So it is perfectly fine to add the street number and name, just not the
postal code from an official source.
I assume if the address has a web site associated with it that has the
postcode on it then that is an acceptable source?
Cheerio John
On 10 August 2016 at 11:03, Kevin Farrugia wrote:
For clarification - Canada Post only owns the postal code, the address
itself (123 Main St.) is created and approved by the municipality, so it's
their data and they can release that data if they wish to.
So it is perfectly fine to add the street number and name, just not the
postal code from an o
Hey Bjenk,
On the Address data, the Talk-CA group has had several discussions about
it. The problem boils down to Canada Post, which treats the information as
proprietary - they provide any individual going to their site the right to
lookup an address in order to utilize their service to mail item
John has the gist of it.
We will use a modified version of iD running off of a StatCan website.
A splash page will invite Canadians to participate with simple instructions and
a link for when they want to start.
We will also link to the OSM Canada and wiki.
I will write back this PM about the
Laura,
This is not related to the project. We considered using it though but our IT
advised against it.
This platform can certainly assist in the effort. We will be using a website
for this though and webpage will provide instructions on what we wish to
accomplish to enrich the buildings infor
Stewart,
Yes, the plan is this: we met with our folks in dissemination working on the
open data initiative. First, we need to host these files ourselves at StatCan.
So they have to go through an approval process to go our open data release
servers. Then, they will be linked to open.canada.ca.
The postal code subject is interesting for many reasons. I read that France has
released a National address database, publically and free.
There must be a way we can follow that example.
I am still catching up, haha!
Bjenk
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