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

[James]

I already added a request a year ago when UK released theirs, even emailed
the PM candidates at the start of the elections. Can't help anymore
unfortunately
On Mar 16, 2016 8:31 PM, "john whelan" <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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