funny you should mention geocoder.ca The owner of that website was sued by Canada Post because he was crowd sourcing postal codes. Just recently (2 ish years ago?) they dropped the lawsuit because they knew they didnt have a case(He came to the Ottawa meetups a couple of times)
On Wed., Oct. 2, 2019, 8:08 p.m. Jarek Piórkowski, <ja...@piorkowski.ca> wrote: > Yeah, Canada Post currently considers postal codes their commercial > data. Crowd-sourcing all or a substantial amount of full codes seems > infeasible. Crowd-sourcing the forward sortation areas (the first A1A) > seems difficult since verifiability is going to be a problem > especially around the edges of the areas. > > The website OpenStreetMap.org returns results for some postal codes > from a third-party database https://geocoder.ca/?terms=1 which is not > ODbL-compatible either. > > Partial mapping is causing some problems with tools like Nominatim > that attach the nearest tagged postcode to search results, often > resulting in improper postal codes for reverse address lookups, > however that is arguably a tooling problem and not an OSM problem per > se. > > This isn't going to be pretty until Canada Post is persuaded to free > the data. Call your MP, everybody. > > --Jarek > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 17:38, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > " The number one request on open.canada.ca is to open the postal code > database. Feel free to add your vote. > https://open.canada.ca/en/suggested-datasets"; > > > > Cheerio John > > > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 13:32, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On the import mailing list there is a proposal to import postcodes in > the UK one of the reasons given was that many like to input a postcode to > get directions on smartphones using things like OSMand. > >> > >> I don't think an Open Data source with the correct licensing is > available in Canada but OSMand appears to be able to use the postcode if it > is entered in the map as part of the address. Is there any Open Data that > might be useful? > >> > >> I don't know if it is possible but could something be used to extract > postcodes in the current map and from there perhaps we could come up with a > list of missing postcodes that need one address with it in mapped? > >> > >> As a minimum if you could add a few in you know from local knowledge > that might help fill in some gaps. > >> > >> Thoughts > >> > >> Thanks John > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-ca mailing list > > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > > https://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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