Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post offices

2020-03-29 Thread stevea
On Mar 29, 2020, at 4:13 PM, David E. Nelson via Talk-ca wrote: > Ah, that's much better. Why did I not think to use the "save" feature on > Overpass-turbo? > > Thank you, Steve. :) You and the list are welcome. Also, such links can be pasted into OSM wiki, really useful, especially as wik

Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post offices

2020-03-29 Thread David E. Nelson via Talk-ca
Ah, that's much better.  Why did I not think to use the "save" feature on Overpass-turbo?Thank you, Steve.  :)- David E. Nelsonhttps://www.openstreetmap.org/user/DENelson83On Mar. 29, 2020 15:47, stevea wrote:Maybe copy-paste from David's post works for you, maybe it doesn't.  Overpass Turbo -> em

Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post offices

2020-03-29 Thread stevea
Maybe copy-paste from David's post works for you, maybe it doesn't. Overpass Turbo -> email or talk-post text pasting is notoriously fraught with errors, so the simple technique of OT allowing for the creation of a link to a snippet of Overpass code is an easy thing to do. When publishing (or

Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post offices

2020-03-29 Thread David Nelson via Talk-ca
elson83 Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: David E. Nelson via Talk-ca Sent: March 28, 2020 17:36 To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post offices I have highlighted in the spreadsheets which post offices are tagged with their correct postal codes.  Those posta

Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post offices

2020-03-28 Thread stevea
On Mar 28, 2020, at 6:00 PM, David E. Nelson via Talk-ca wrote: > I have now established a page on the OSM wiki where this effort can be > coordinated. > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada_Post An excellent wiki, too: exemplary as short, sweet, succinct. Nice project,

Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post offices

2020-03-28 Thread David E. Nelson via Talk-ca
I have now established a page on the OSM wiki where this effort can be coordinated.https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada_Post- David E. Nelsonhttps://www.openstreetmap.org/user/DENelson83On Mar. 28, 2020 17:35, denelso...@yahoo.ca wrote:I have highlighted in the spreadsheets which

Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post offices

2020-03-28 Thread David E. Nelson via Talk-ca
I have highlighted in the spreadsheets which post offices are tagged with their correct postal codes.  Those postal codes are now in bold type. - David E. Nelsonhttps://www.openstreetmap.org/user/DENelson83On Mar. 28, 2020 15:39, john whelan wrote:It might be worthwhile highlighting those that do

Re: [Talk-ca] Canada Post offices

2020-03-28 Thread john whelan
It might be worthwhile highlighting those that do not have a postcode or are tagged name=Canada Post. Useful locally as I hadn't checked the ones I know of had been mapped nor that their details were correct. I did note one address was wrong, the post office had moved from one side of the street

[Talk-ca] Canada Post offices

2020-03-28 Thread David E. Nelson via Talk-ca
I have started a project with the objective of adding as many post offices as can be found in Canada to OpenStreetMap.Canada Post's own database yields just over 6000 post offices within the country, and I have used the Overpass API to determine that just over 2000 of those, or only about one in ev