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

[john whelan]

I understand but there is an open data mailing list floating around and
since the UK has opened up its Post Codes there is more pressure for the
Canadian ones.  There is a concerted effort for post codes at the moment so
every little straw helps.

I was talking to the TB open data people this afternoon and the advice
given was every added request at the moment helps.

Thanks John

On 16 March 2016 at 20:26, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Postal codes have already been suggested a long time ago
> http://open.canada.ca/en/suggested-datasets/postal-code-database
> On Mar 16, 2016 8:22 PM, "john whelan" <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ​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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