Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

I've found a good resource to use is a business website. Particularly a store with multiple locations, a mall directory, or a BIA. They have several postal codes that are associated with their respective addresses. Unfortunately it does require manual work (or you could pair a scrapper with a

Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

I had long discussions with Canada Post about postcodes years ago.  I was working with Treasury Board standards group at the time looking at addressing standards and I'm very aware of the limitations. Rural post codes are very definitely an issue and not all postcodes used by Stats Canada and

Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

I don't want to rain on the postal code party, and maybe I'm a little jaded from using the data, but I use the Postal Code Conversion File (PCCF) from Statistics Canada (who get it from Canada Post) at work. In general I would say that the postal code points are in mediocre shape. Some things

Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

I seem to recall the case was dropped as well. Having sad that I think the best way forward is " The number one request on open.canada.ca is to open the postal code database.  Feel free to add your vote. https://open.canada.ca/en/suggested-datasets; and also add in a

Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

funny you should mention geocoder.ca The owner of that website was sued by Canada Post because he was crowd sourcing postal codes. Just recently (2 ish years ago?) they dropped the lawsuit because they knew they didnt have a case(He came to the Ottawa meetups a couple of times) On Wed., Oct. 2,

Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

Yeah, Canada Post currently considers postal codes their commercial data. Crowd-sourcing all or a substantial amount of full codes seems infeasible. Crowd-sourcing the forward sortation areas (the first A1A) seems difficult since verifiability is going to be a problem especially around the edges

Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

" The number one request on open.canada.ca is to open the postal code database. Feel free to add your vote. https://open.canada.ca/en/suggested-datasets; Cheerio John On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 13:32, john whelan wrote: > On the import mailing list there is a proposal to import postcodes in the >

[Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

On the import mailing list there is a proposal to import postcodes in the UK one of the reasons given was that many like to input a postcode to get directions on smartphones using things like OSMand. I don't think an Open Data source with the correct licensing is available in Canada but OSMand

Re: [Talk-ca] Local mapathon, BC2020 imports and Climate resiliency challenge

I’ll meet with Kelsey and try to get to an OSM Toronto Meetup to see how Nate and others end up doing it in Toronto. Maybe Kelsey and I can do adapt that experience for Northumberland County. We have a local group interested in bike trails that I can approach. I’m also interested in the HOT

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing building and routing info regionally/locally (Jonathan)

I was under the impression that most buildings in both Port Hope and Cobourg had been manually mapped. Now the outlines have been done it really needs boots on the ground to add detail. There are addresses from Canvec which give an address range so Stats might have something better but I'm not

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing building and routing info regionally/locally (Jonathan)

Ditto Kevin’s post. Erik, I live in Cobourg and have an interest in working with local mappers to map Northumberland County. At the moment we only have one novice (myself) and Kelsey Saunders, a GIS grad. Jonathan We are a local/regional courier and trucking company in southern Ontario >