[Talk-ca] Ottawa street names

[john whelan]

That should screw up a few search engines when people try to look up the
postal addresses from Canada post which are different.

Thanks John

On 4 December 2017 at 09:22, Matthew Darwin <matthew at mdarwin.ca> wrote:

> Here's the info I have:
>
> From: "Young, Erin" <Erin.Young at ottawa.ca> <Erin.Young at ottawa.ca>
> To: Addressing And Signs <addressingandsigns at ottawa.ca> <addressingandsigns at ottawa.ca>
> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 14:35:00 +0000
>
> *City of Ottawa - Notice of Street Name Corrections – Effective
> immediately*
>
>
>
> The Director of Building Code Services, under delegated authority granted
> by By-law 2014-78, approved corrections to the spelling of five street
> names. These names were missing accents, articles or hyphens or had
> incorrect capitalization. These changes are part of the City’s Street Name
> Verification Project, one of the post-amalgamation initiatives to resolve
> street name anomalies.
>
>
>
> Please make the necessary changes to your records to reflect the corrected
> street names as they appear in the table below, in accordance with the
> language format used.
>
>
>
> *City of Ottawa Official Format*
>
> *English*
>
> *French*
>
> avenue des Épinettes Avenue
>
> Épinettes Avenue
>
> avenue des Épinettes
>
> promenade des Mésanges Drive
>
> Mésanges Drive
>
> promenade des Mésanges
>
> chemin de Montréal Road
>
> Montréal Road
>
> chemin de Montréal
>
> boulevard d’Orléans Boulevard
>
> Orléans Boulevard
>
> boulevard d’Orléans
>
> promenade de la Place-d’Orléans Drive
>
> Place-d’Orléans Drive
>
> promenade de la Place-d’Orléans
>
> Matthew Darwinmatthew at mdarwin.cahttp://www.mdarwin.ca
>
> On 2017-12-04 06:57 AM, James wrote:
>
> DES EPINETTES AVE
> is english. Des Epinettes Avenue. French is avenue Des Epinettes.
>
> Dont look hard for an Explaination why they keep the french article, we
> are talking about a city that has Forest instead of Fôrest. There's also
> Des Aubépines that keeps the é.....
>
> On Dec 4, 2017 6:49 AM, "john whelan" <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There seems to be some confusion over the English version and French
>> versions of the street names.
>>
>> Canada Post recognises 375 DES EPINETTES AVE ORLEANS ON   K1E 3E6 as an
>> English address.
>>
>> Until very recently this would also be the address in OpenStreetMap and
>> used by the city.
>>
>> There is a by-law that says what the differences are.
>>
>> Has something changed recently?
>>
>> Many thanks John
>>
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