<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">It might be worthwhile highlighting those that do not have a postcode or are tagged name=Canada Post.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">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 to the other a year or so ago.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 16:04, David E. Nelson via Talk-ca <<a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">I have started a project with the objective of adding as many post offices as can be found in Canada to OpenStreetMap.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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 every three such outlets, have already been added to OSM's database.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I would like to enlist the help of mappers across Canada to add as many more of the missing post offices as they can find. To that end, I have produced these spreadsheets detailing which post offices have already been added to OSM and which have not.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Atlantic (A, B, C, E): <<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13O2oY4te6EvOPSqpaCOtWbUZ2UkO-ahq9CeODruvcDA/" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13O2oY4te6EvOPSqpaCOtWbUZ2UkO-ahq9CeODruvcDA/</a>></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Quebec (G, H, J):</div><div dir="auto"><<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IOrbwQsEgSM8PvzWzBDHNPvM0d3HsiW_XLXYnK7utm8/" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IOrbwQsEgSM8PvzWzBDHNPvM0d3HsiW_XLXYnK7utm8/</a>></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ontario (K, L, M, N, P):</div><div dir="auto"><<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k_mOmiL15L6ObCeJJ8DntVBXb21JSZwOsJTbfb1FOI0/" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k_mOmiL15L6ObCeJJ8DntVBXb21JSZwOsJTbfb1FOI0/</a>></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Western and Northern (R, S, T, V, X, Y):</div><div dir="auto"><<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lcOL5ISS9aML6oaUOcgyngw4bio_gRmbxzLn-4GCjXQ/" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lcOL5ISS9aML6oaUOcgyngw4bio_gRmbxzLn-4GCjXQ/</a>></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Each spreadsheet has a "master list" of post offices, and each of those entries has been colour-coded according to their disposition:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Green = Already added to OSM; node/way ID given, with dash before ID indicating a way, no dash indicating a node</div><div dir="auto">Red = Not yet added to OSM</div><div dir="auto">Yellow = Location listed on <a href="http://waymarking.com" target="_blank">waymarking.com</a> (although I am not sure <a href="http://waymarking.com" target="_blank">waymarking.com</a> data is licence-compatible with OSM) <<a href="https://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=610386da-84d0-4983-bdf1-7eb34a03e64b" target="_blank">https://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=610386da-84d0-4983-bdf1-7eb34a03e64b</a>></div><div dir="auto">Blue = Added to OSM, but since moved to a new location or simply needs to have its address re-verified</div><div dir="auto">Lilac = Postal code needs to be corrected—the correct postal code is in the spreadsheet; postal codes for Canada Post facilities *always* end with a zero</div><div dir="auto">Violet = A letter has been sent to that post office asking for its precise geographical location</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Each spreadsheet also has a second sheet titled "extraneous data", detailing which post offices found in the OSM data have been determined to have closed; which OSM post office data is redundant and needs to be merged, i.e., if a single post office location has both a way and a disconnected node describing it, in which case the tags from the node should be moved to the way; and which locations have been erroneously tagged as post offices. Only locations branded as Canada Post where postage stamps can be purchased should have the "amenity=post_office" tag, while outlets branded as "FedEx", "UPS", or any other private courier should instead be tagged as "office=logistics".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I would also like to see a harmonized tagging schema for Canada Post outlets, consisting as follows:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">addr:housenumber (Use ground survey or local knowledge wherever and whenever possible)</div><div dir="auto">addr:postcode (Use from spreadsheets)</div><div dir="auto">addr:street (Use ground survey or local knowledge wherever and whenever possible)</div><div dir="auto">amenity=post_office</div><div dir="auto">brand=Canada Post</div><div dir="auto">brand:wikipedia=en:Canada Post</div><div dir="auto">brand:wikidata=Q1032001</div><div dir="auto">name (Use from spreadsheets)</div><div dir="auto">operator (Either "Canada Post", for an outlet run directly by Canada Post, or for an independently-run franchise, the name of the business that the postal outlet can be found in)</div><div dir="auto">phone (Optional)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I would prefer that no two or more post office locations share a postal code. If this is not the case, only the outlet listed in the above spreadsheets should get tagged with "addr:postcode", while the others not use the "addr:postcode" tag at all. As well, no two post office locations within the same province or territory should be permitted to have identical name values, and I have made sure of that in the spreadsheets.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- David E. Nelson</div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/DENelson83" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/DENelson83</a><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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