[Talk-ca] Question

[James]

Canada Post also regularly changes Postal Code locations to remain the
master of the postal codes  and be able to resell their 5000$/year database(
https://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/assets/pdf/business/pc_latLong_specs_en.pdf).
They have also sued geocoder.ca for collecting user postal codes, which
resulted in many years of litigation and they finally gave up (non-win).

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 5:26 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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