[Talk-ca] Canadian postcodes

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 26 16:37:13 GMT 2010


It would seem the pragmatic approach would be to enter postcodes without the
space for the moment, and have a script run down them all if ever it gets
sorted out.

Cheerio John

On 26 March 2010 09:16, Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 26 March 2010 14:11, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If I do a search "en3 6rg,gb" it returns a UK location correctly.
>> en36rg,gb also returns the same results.
>>
>> For Canada k1e3p6,ca returns a lcation but "k1e 3p6,ca" does not.
>>
>> Can this be fixed please?
>>
>> Would some one like to give some guidelines on entering Canadian addresses
>> please.
>>
>
> I suspect you might want to talk to Brian Quinion if you want the system to
> be modified to accept postcode as you want. He is the developper for
> Nominatim. What he has is pretty brilliant but there is clearly ways of
> localizing the program, which he hasn't done much since it is not easy!
>
> Emilie Laffray
>
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