Postal codes have already been suggested a long time ago http://open.canada.ca/en/suggested-datasets/postal-code-database On Mar 16, 2016 8:22 PM, "john whelan" <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mojgan recently identified that data from the government of Canada’s open > data portal could be imported into OSM. > > I was nattering to Treasury board today and they were aware of the > interest in Post Code data. Some of the Open Data crowd are making a push > to try and get the Post Code data published through the Open Data portal. > > The more requests they have for the data set the easier it is to get it. > So the rent-a-crowd bit is please go here: > http://open.canada.ca/en/forms/suggest-dataset and drop a request in that > post code data be made available. > > We also talked about bus stops and it sounds as if they are aware of the > interest. So perhaps a request for bus stops across Canada be made > available in GTFS format at the same time. This will need to be > coordinated with the municipalities but since most are already supplying > this data to Google I don’t see any technical problem. > > Note I’m not suggesting it is imported wholesale into OSM at this time but > it would at least make it possible. > > Cheerio John > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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