I seem to recall the case was dropped as well. Having sad that I think
the best way forward is
" The number one request on open.canada.ca <http://open.canada.ca> is to
open the postal code database. Feel free to add your vote.
https://open.canada.ca/en/suggested-datasets";
and also add in a building that has a missing postcode.
For example I'm not sure a commitment from the "Stop Climate Change
Party " to make them Open Data should mean we all vote for this party.
I think current MPs are too busy with the election at the moment.
Cheerio John
James wrote on 2019-10-02 8:38 PM:
funny you should mention geocoder.ca <http://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 <mailto: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
<mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> " The number one request on open.canada.ca
<http://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
<mailto: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
>
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