[Talk-ca] New project with OSM at Statistics Canada

[john whelan]

Until Stats Canada decide what tags they're after I don't think we can do
much.  They are aware of the Happy Goat by the way, but not when you meet.

Postcodes will be interesting.  There are three types, conventional ones,
rural ones and Federal Government department ones.  The first two are
attached to a physical building, the last one is not.  If the department
moves offices it retains the same postcode.  Also Federal Government
offices in Gatineau have a postcode that resembles an Ottawa postcode all
their mail goes through Ottawa sorting office rather than Montreal which is
the case for everyone else in Gatineau.  One reason is most of it is
interdepartmental.

So will Stats Canada want the physical building postcode or the
departmental one?

So far for everything I’ve seen that they would like there is an existing
example in OSM.  They would like to add more data using either OSM mappers
or volunteers, something like the HOT system.  So no problems there from
our point of view.

I’ve seen a suggestion that they may wish to import some data to OSM and
they are aware of the rules to follow.

At the moment I think their biggest problem maybe the number of different
ways that we tag data to show the same thing.  For example in Gatineau
every address is there, but has the address been associated with the
amenity=café that is also there.

Another issue is the data quality is uneven, in some parts of Ottawa every
store in a mall has been mapped.  In other areas either no one has mapped
them yet or they were mapped but not recently so the names maybe out of
date.

As Heather mentioned it will be interesting to see what unfolds.

Cheerio John

On 19 July 2016 at 07:38, John Marshall <rps333 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a local OSM mapper in Ottawa, how can I help?
>
> John Marshall
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 7:16 AM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Stewart that lawsuit was dropped, mostly because canada post knew they
>> couldnt copyright a postal code and also they would have to sue every
>> online retailer as they have to collect postal code data of their clients
>> to be able to ship their products
>>
>> On Jul 18, 2016 10:11 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2016-07-18 04:08 PM, john whelan wrote:
>>> >
>>> > … for the pilot what they would like
>>> > is a few tags adding to existing buildings.  These would be things such
>>> > as postcode
>>>
>>> Ooh, lemme order popcorn so I can watch Canada Post sue Statistics
>>> Canada for use of "their" precious codes ...
>>>
>>>  Stewart
>>>
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