Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post addresses that do not match municipality name
OK I've figured it out. In the City of Toronto, there are numerous duplicate street names caused by amalgamation. See http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ontroads/message/9826. If there is a duplicate street name, you must use the name of the former municipality in the address e.g. York, East York, Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York. If it is not a duplicate, either Toronto or the name of the former municipality are acceptable. Various other city names like Downsview, Don Mills and Weston are acceptable for certain areas of these former municipalities, these are generally just aliases for the old municipality name (though Downsview for instance is only accepted for the portion of North York near the community of Downsview, using Downsview for an address at Yonge/Sheppard is incorrect). In Markham, there is the weird situation of Main Street Unionville and Main Street Markham. In other parts of the GTA, sometimes the city name used by the post office doesn't match the actual city's name, but I can't find any other examples of duplicate street names other than the one in Markham. If an address is Woodbridge or Concord we can pretend it is in Vaughan. Since the Canada Post database is proprietary I have had to figure this out from sources like receipts from coffee shops and fast food restaurants. Fortunately these are easy to get. Is a free source available for the boundaries of Old Toronto, North York, York and East York as they existed before 1998? I have added the boundaries of Scarborough and Etobicoke as boundary=administrative, admin_level=10 which seems to make nominatim work propertly (though it says that the addresses are in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada instead of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada which is not the correct format). ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post addresses that do not match municipality name
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: OK I've figured it out. Is a free source available for the boundaries of Old Toronto, North York, York and East York as they existed before 1998? I have added the boundaries of Scarborough and Etobicoke as boundary=administrative, admin_level=10 which seems to make nominatim work propertly (though it says that the addresses are in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada instead of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada which is not the correct format). The Toronto Open Data Catalogue apparently has the old bounaries listed http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/open_data/open_data_item_details?vgnextoid=31f0b940f1f49310VgnVCM103dd60f89RCRDvgnextchannel=6e886aa8cc819210VgnVCM1067d60f89RCRD I recall someone determining the the 2.0 license was compatible with OSM. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post addresses that do not match municipality name
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Steve Singer st...@ssinger.info wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: OK I've figured it out. Is a free source available for the boundaries of Old Toronto, North York, York and East York as they existed before 1998? I have added the boundaries of Scarborough and Etobicoke as boundary=administrative, admin_level=10 which seems to make nominatim work propertly (though it says that the addresses are in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada instead of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada which is not the correct format). The Toronto Open Data Catalogue apparently has the old bounaries listed http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/open_data/open_data_item_details?vgnextoid=31f0b940f1f49310VgnVCM103dd60f89RCRDvgnextchannel=6e886aa8cc819210VgnVCM1067d60f89RCRD I recall someone determining the the 2.0 license was compatible with OSM. Are you 100% sure that the Open Data website is compatible with the new OSM contributor terms? ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
