[Talk-ca] Winnipeg Transit addresses

[Samuel Dyck]

Hi everyone

I was browsing through Winnipeg Transit's new PDDL API and experimenting 
with the possibility of getting data from it. I discovered a way to use 
a wildcard search to generate and XML file with all addresses on a 
street that start with the same number. I found a small street and 
manually created an OSM XML file for all address which I double checked 
against Bing and found it accurate. I did not import it. Is it worth 
creating a script to attempt to do this on a larger scale, especially if 
the servers are throttled at 100 requests per IP per key per minute? One 
advantage is it only has actual address, the reality of nonexistent 
houses (where the house numbers skip several on a street, e.g. my house 
is 725, my neighbour is 729, I have looked hard for 727 but can't find 
it) is one of the biggest problems with interpolation. If you want to 
play around with the API you can use my key. 
<http://api.winnipegtransit.com/locations:414+osb?api-key=gFUVjeJObwFawLhOK75q>

Sam
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