Re: [Talk-ca] Postal Code cleanup

Canapost uses A#A #A# Seeing as they were trying to copyright it's usage (see lawsuit vs geocode.ca) I think thats the format we should use On Feb 7, 2018 8:02 PM, "Matthew Darwin" wrote: Hi all, Below are the 10 top postal code formats in Canada as seen in

Re: [Talk-ca] Postal Code cleanup

This is partly the reason why I don't add postal codes when I put new business listings into OSM.- David E. NelsonOn Feb 7, 2018 5:05 PM, James wrote:Canapost usesA#A #A#Seeing as they were trying to copyright it's usage (see lawsuit vs geocode.ca) I think thats the format we

Re: [Talk-ca] Preferred phone number format

A further update on this work: * I found more yet bizarre phone-related tags "phone:1", "telephone" and the like.  These have all been tidied.  My osmfilter now looks like this:    --keep="contact:*=* or phone*=* or Phone*=* or alt_phone=* or fax*=* or tty*=*"  Additional suggestions

[Talk-ca] Postal Code cleanup

Hi all, Below are the 10 top postal code formats in Canada as seen in *addr:postcode*. When I get bored of tidying up phone numbers, I'll tackle some postal codes. I hope we can all agree that "A#A #A#", which is the most popular, is the correct format that should be used.  The ones that

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i - Solving the licensing issues

James, Good point about the quality and attributes of the data will definitely not be consistent between municipalities. As long as the source is identifiable, then the face it is one "file" or many, would be an implementation detail.  IMO. On 2018-02-07 09:46 AM, James wrote: why does it

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i - Solving the licensing issues

Hi John, I think this approach has merit. Probably it would work if we take a similar approach to what BikeOttawa is doing with OSM data, they wanted a "Level Of Traffic Stress" map.  To that they defined the set of interesting tags, started collecting data, then draw a map.  Now people are