That should screw up a few search engines when people try to look up the postal addresses from Canada post which are different.
Thanks John On 4 December 2017 at 09:22, Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca> wrote: > Here's the info I have: > > From: "Young, Erin" <erin.yo...@ottawa.ca> <erin.yo...@ottawa.ca> > To: Addressing And Signs <addressingandsi...@ottawa.ca> > <addressingandsi...@ottawa.ca> > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:35:00 +0000 > > *City of Ottawa - Notice of Street Name Corrections – Effective > immediately* > > > > The Director of Building Code Services, under delegated authority granted > by By-law 2014-78, approved corrections to the spelling of five street > names. These names were missing accents, articles or hyphens or had > incorrect capitalization. These changes are part of the City’s Street Name > Verification Project, one of the post-amalgamation initiatives to resolve > street name anomalies. > > > > Please make the necessary changes to your records to reflect the corrected > street names as they appear in the table below, in accordance with the > language format used. > > > > *City of Ottawa Official Format* > > *English* > > *French* > > avenue des Épinettes Avenue > > Épinettes Avenue > > avenue des Épinettes > > promenade des Mésanges Drive > > Mésanges Drive > > promenade des Mésanges > > chemin de Montréal Road > > Montréal Road > > chemin de Montréal > > boulevard d’Orléans Boulevard > > Orléans Boulevard > > boulevard d’Orléans > > promenade de la Place-d’Orléans Drive > > Place-d’Orléans Drive > > promenade de la Place-d’Orléans > > Matthew Darwinmatthew@mdarwin.cahttp://www.mdarwin.ca > > On 2017-12-04 06:57 AM, James wrote: > > DES EPINETTES AVE > is english. Des Epinettes Avenue. French is avenue Des Epinettes. > > Dont look hard for an Explaination why they keep the french article, we > are talking about a city that has Forest instead of Fôrest. There's also > Des Aubépines that keeps the é..... > > On Dec 4, 2017 6:49 AM, "john whelan" <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> There seems to be some confusion over the English version and French >> versions of the street names. >> >> Canada Post recognises 375 DES EPINETTES AVE ORLEANS ON K1E 3E6 as an >> English address. >> >> Until very recently this would also be the address in OpenStreetMap and >> used by the city. >> >> There is a by-law that says what the differences are. >> >> Has something changed recently? >> >> Many thanks John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing > listTalk-ca@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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