[Talk-ca] Question

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 21:26:18 UTC 2018


Post codes are put in one at a time.  They aren't all there.

If you could help clean them up that would be useful.

Zip codes are different and belong in Donald's land.

Cheerio John




On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, 5:01 pm Pier Luc, <pierlucrivard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, I live in Quebec City. I tried to use OSMand (based on OSM) in my
> City using offline mode and the OBF file of the Province of Quebec. Every
> time I search an address it can not find it! Sometime it offer me other
> address, sometime not. It's like if only a tiny part of Quebec's address
> had been insert in Open Street Map. But, it's not exactly the case because
> is has more address in Open street Map website.
>
> Look at that example, searching: 2985 rue de la Broussaille.
> Osmand can't find it by OSM web site gives:
>
> Maison 2985, Rue de la Broussaille, Neufchâtel-Est, Les Méandres, Québec,
> Québec (Agglomération), Capitale-Nationale, Québec, G2C 0G3, Canada
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/104093690>
>
> I think it has a problem there. A lot of information should not be there
> and the zip code is bad. It should be G2C 1S1. If that address is in the
> OBF, I supposed the app have difficulties to find it.
>
> The good address is: 2985, Rue de la Broussaille, Québec, QC, G2C 1S1,
> Canada
>
>
> An other test: 920, rue Noël-Carter
>
> Osmand can't find it but OSM web site can:
>
>
> École Centre de formation professionnelle Maurice-Barbeau, 920, Rue
> Noël-Carter, Sainte-Foy, Québec, Québec (Agglomération),
> Capitale-Nationale, Québec, G1V 1X3, Canada
> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4974207123>
>
> The good address is
>
> CFP Maurice-Barbeau
> 920, Rue Noël-Carter, Québec, QC, G1V 5B6, Canada
>
> An other zip code error and an other address full of "dust".
>
> Every-time I tried to find something it's the same thing. It's impossible
> to use Osmand as a GPS in Quebec City. I think it's because the data in the
> OBF of the Province of Quebec is bad.
>
> Is your work have been put in the OBF? Does is exist and other OBF for the
> Province of Quebec than the OF we can find there?
> https://download.osmand.net/list.php
>
> Tank-you
>
>
>
>
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