and just to add to the confusion Canada Post has its own set of rules. For example my official Canada Post address is Orleans yet no such municipality or town has ever existed. There are other examples of Canada Post giving areas names.
Cheerio John On 9 March 2017 at 08:55, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kevin - > > > CSDs are legal boundaries - I.e. the legal boundary of a lower tier > > municipality. > > I was a bit confused by terminology - I thought that Bjenk was referring > to LCTs. The one I live in looks like this: > > https://gist.github.com/scruss/e4778dfc3a0ea5261581e688c4332c93 > > It's bounded by Eglinton Ave East, the Stouffville rail line, Corvette > Ave, Kennedy Rd, St Clair Ave East, the old GECO rail spur, and finally > Kennedy Rd again. > > There's nothing to say that you're in this area (ward?), and as it's > designated by boundary ways, any import relation would have to map on to > the existing ways in OSM, and not StatCan's data. Even though many of > our ways are based on earlier imports of Federal data, there isn't a > perfect match. To StatCan, Eglinton Ave East is just a line. To us, it's > multiple separated ways. > > I don't believe that these divisions belong in OSM, even although they > have legal definition for census use. > > Stewart > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
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