[Talk-ca] Searching for addresses...

2010-08-13 Thread G. Michael Carter
With the new canvec address data searches like 258 Broadway, Orangeville, Ontario now return the exact spot for that address. However, 258 Broadway, Orangeville, ON returns nothing. Is this a case that we're missing data somewhere or OpenStreetMap.org search is not handling abbreviations?

Re: [Talk-ca] Searching for addresses...

2010-08-13 Thread john whelan
Address searching is done by different software. Nominatim http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim is the usual one. Maperitive has its own find for local maps. It now looks as if Canadian postcodes are supported via Geocoder.CA which is a big improvement, they were only supported before if