Re: [Talk-ca] script for changing existing CA postcodes?

2010-03-26 Thread john whelan
Currently we don't have a working solution for searching on postcodes in Canada. Whilst I realise the interests of many don't include postcodes condensing them down to six characters would give us a working solution today even if the script had to be run say once a month. Once we have a permanent

Re: [Talk-ca] script for changing existing CA postcodes?

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:20 PM, john whelan wrote: > Would it be possible for someone to write a script and execute it that went > through the OSM database and where country=CA change the format for the > existing post codes to remove the space to make them searchable? > > If some one could point

[Talk-ca] script for changing existing CA postcodes?

2010-03-26 Thread john whelan
Would it be possible for someone to write a script and execute it that went through the OSM database and where country=CA change the format for the existing post codes to remove the space to make them searchable? If some one could point me at a bit of sample code I could probably write the script.