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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi,</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I am now reviewing the
<b>addr</b><b>:city</b> tag. Seems we are not very consistent
how we use it. For example, Toronto:</font></p>
<pre><tt> 110707 City of Toronto
9603 Toronto
4 North York, Toronto
2 Toronto, ON
2 toronto
1 York, Toronto
1 Torontoitalian
1 Toronto;City of Toronto
1 Toronto</tt></pre>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Which is correct? "<b>City
of </b><b>Toronto</b>" or "<b>Toronto</b>"? I would think "Toronto"???
Why do people pick one over the other?<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">There are more than
7000 unique names in Canada. Below are the top 50. Ottawa is
not on the top of the list because there was a local decision to
not include the addr:city tag during address addition as there
there are many different "city" names since almagamation. (The
official Canada Post address still has the old municipality name
prior to amalgamation while the City of Ottawa works through de-duplicating
street names).<br>
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<pre><tt> 110707 City of Toronto
100066 Gatineau
82606 Montréal
79191 Surrey
71932 Edmonton
51096 Québec
45716 City of Hamilton
37232 Mississauga
35763 Laval
32029 Dartmouth
30969 Kamloops
27234 City of London
25393 City of Brampton
22881 Municipality of Chatham-Kent
18534 Saguenay
17921 Lévis
17251 City of Vaughan
16929 City of St. Catharines
16796 Town of Markham
16592 City of Kawartha Lakes
16403 Trois-Rivières
16086 City of Thunder Bay
15788 Oakville
15335 Sherbrooke
14787 City of Niagara Falls
14338 Norfolk County
13966 City of Kingston
13939 Fredericton
12085 City of Oshawa
11966 Saanich
11950 Calgary
11382 Terrebonne
11332 Richmond Hill
11321 City of Barrie
11080 Town of Fort Erie
10986 Cole Harbour
10981 City of Burlington
10641 Town of Whitby
10635 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
10455 Drummondville
10347 City of Guelph
9906 Municipality of Clarington
9666 City of Brantford
9603 Toronto
9487 Shawinigan
9384 City of Sarnia
9380 Red Deer
9102 City of Windsor
9044 City Of Sault Ste. Marie
8466 Sudbury</tt><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">
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Matthew Darwin
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:matthew@mdarwin.ca">matthew@mdarwin.ca</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mdarwin.ca">http://www.mdarwin.ca</a></pre>
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