Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 140, Issue 11

2019-10-03 Thread keith hartley
the official postal address. > > As long as one address contains the postcode then Nominatim will find it > which means it can be used for directions. You might be 30 buildings away > but you are in the right general area so I think adding them as part of a > street address is of v

Re: [Talk-ca] Carte velo CyclOSM et Référence Route Verte

2019-10-03 Thread Alouette955
Bonjour, La modification étant facile à mettre en oeuvre et à renverser le changement de RCN à NCN pour la route verte a été effectuée conformément au “tagging guideline canadien”. L’apparition de la modification sur la carte cyclable pourrait réveiller l’intérêt certains contributeurs et on

Re: [Talk-ca] Pertinence de lcn=yes pour le Québec

2019-10-03 Thread Pierre Béland via Talk-ca
Je trouve sensiblement la même chose- 8 099 chemins -      90 relations  Pour ce qui est de la clé lcn=yes sur les chemins, cela me semble aussi inutile.  On peut distinguer les réseaux plus importants (niveau local ou autre) en créant une relation regroupant divers segments. Sans doute

[Talk-ca] Pertinence de lcn=yes pour le Québec

2019-10-03 Thread Alouette955
Bonjour, J’extrais et isole ici le sujet “lcn=yes” et vous remarquerez le changement d’objet de la conversation. Le message original couvrant les autres sujets se trouve ici: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2019-October/009443.html Afin de bien mesurer l’ampleur j’ai sorti

Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

2019-10-03 Thread john whelan
Canadian Postal Codes in urban areas are blocks of roughly 50 buildings which makes them extremely interesting to use for GIS studies. Average income etc. Both in the UK and Canada many people would rather type in a 6 character code than a street address with city when looking for directions to

Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

2019-10-03 Thread Justin Tracey
In the US, ZIP Codes (the US postal code equivalent) are frequently emphasized to not correspond to geographic locations, but sets of addresses. Of course they frequently cluster according to geography (and the prefixes are indeed assigned to states and regions within the state), and are often

Re: [Talk-ca] Postcodes in Canada

2019-10-03 Thread James
>For example if K4A 1M7 exists in the map then it would be reasonable to assume that K4A 1M6 - 1M1 should also exist so could be looked for. Not necessarily. The first three characters are province, region indicators. The last three are based on Canada Post's routes/delivery zones. They create