> > > In Canada Postal Codes are not open data so the only way they can be used > is on an individual address. > I don't understand. What does it make that they are not open data ? One could know that all of their village has the same postcode, so they could simply add a addr:postcode=xxx to their village boundary ?
It's to do with where you get the information from. If you knock on the door of every address and ask every one their postcode then it is acceptable to map it. If you look it up on the Canada Post web site then you got taken too court. Cheerio John On 11 August 2016 at 09:46, Frank Villaro-Dixon <fr...@villaro-dixon.eu> wrote: > On 16-08-11 15:04:20, Martin Koppenhoefer, wrote 0.7K characters saying: > >> I agree it isn't clean and it does clutter up the database to have >>> multiple addressess containing the same information on nodes within a >>> building but that is what we currently have. >>> >> it is a very stable way of doing things though, and a good way to operate >> when you work incrementally (as osm generally does). Even if the nodes are >> not perfectly positioned you get reliable addressing information for POIs >> this way. I am not convinced that simplifying these structures by moving >> address information from POIs to a container (like a plot or a building) is >> is beneficial for the project. >> > Duplicates are in general always bad and not neat. That's a thing that > will/could bite us in the ass in the future (a city changing its name, its > postcode, or merging a postcode with another city). An address by area can > simply avoid easy spelling mistakes. > > In Canada Postal Codes are not open data so the only way they can be used >> is on an individual address. >> > I don't understand. What does it make that they are not open data ? One > could know that all of their village has the same postcode, so they could > simply add a addr:postcode=xxx to their village boundary ? > > Cheers, > > > -- > frank.villaro-dixon.eu - PGP: 6F36914A > Envie d'électricité 100% verte ? Enercoop.fr > What is a Velomobile ? www.sans-essence.eu >
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