There's a history of the events involving the lawsuit Canada Post filed against geocoder.ca, which may provide some perspective on this issue [1]. The most recent entry, in May of this year indicates the four year legal battle has been settled.
[1]http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1 > On Aug 18, 2016, at 4:42 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Unfortunately there is a lot of GIS work done with postcodes. Where is the > best place to put a new coffee shop? Which areas have the most break-ins? > Etc. > > Thus being able to sell postcodes has become a source of income for post > offices and since it cost them money to create them they'd like to recover > that and a bit more as well. > > Canada Post will let you look up a postcode but I seem to recall a disclaimer > saying it is Canada Post's copyright or some such. > > So yes they want you to use them for mail but for any other purpose they'd > like some money please. > > Cheerio John > >> On 18 Aug 2016 4:04 pm, "John F. Eldredge" <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote: >> I know I am replying to a two-month-old message, but the idea of >> restrictions on entering postal codes is baffling. At least in the USA, the >> Post Office encourages the use of postal codes (called Zip codes) on mail, >> to expedite the delivery of mail, and used to publish large reference books >> listing the postal codes for every address in a particular area. Nowadays, >> they have a web site where you can enter an address, and look up the postal >> code for that address. What would be the purpose of postal codes that >> aren't told to the general public? Or, is it that the postal code >> boundaries are restricted, but the postal code for a given address is not >> restricted? >> >> >>> On 06/21/2016 05:14 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>>> On 06/21/2016 11:07 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: >>>> Perish the thought that people might add their local knowledge to OSM. I >>>> thought it was all imports, armchairing and tagwanking these days. >>> Only Canadians are allowed to enter their own post codes. The other >>> countries haven't had their lawsuits resolved yet. >>> >>> Bye >>> Frederik >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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