[Talk-ca] bus stops, post codes and rent-a-crowd

[john whelan]

​Mojgan recently identified that data from the government of Canada’s open
data portal could be imported into OSM.

I was nattering to Treasury board today and they were aware of the interest
in Post Code data.  Some of the Open Data crowd are making a push to try
and get the Post Code data published through the Open Data portal.

The more requests they have for the data set the easier it is to get it.
So the rent-a-crowd bit is please go here:
http://open.canada.ca/en/forms/suggest-dataset and drop a request in that
post code data be made available.

We also talked about bus stops and it sounds as if they are aware of the
interest.  So perhaps a request for bus stops across Canada be made
available in GTFS format at the same time.  This will need to be
coordinated with the municipalities but since most are already supplying
this data to Google I don’t see any technical problem.

Note I’m not suggesting it is imported wholesale into OSM at this time but
it would at least make it possible.

Cheerio John​
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