[Talk-ca] Canada Post addresses that do not match municipality name

[Andrew MacKinnon]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Steve Singer <steve at ssinger.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Andrew MacKinnon wrote:
>
>> OK I've figured it out.
>>
>> Is a free source available for the boundaries of Old Toronto, North
>> York, York and East York as they existed before 1998? I have added the
>> boundaries of Scarborough and Etobicoke as boundary=administrative,
>> admin_level=10 which seems to make nominatim work propertly (though it
>> says that the addresses are in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
>> instead of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada which is not the correct
>> format).
>
>
> The Toronto Open Data Catalogue apparently has the old bounaries listed
> http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/open_data/open_data_item_details?vgnextoid=31f0b940f1f49310VgnVCM1000003dd60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=6e886aa8cc819210VgnVCM10000067d60f89RCRD
>
> I recall someone determining the the 2.0 license was compatible with OSM.

Are you 100% sure that the Open Data website is compatible with the
new OSM contributor terms?