[Talk-ca] Formatting of Municipality Names
James
james2432 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 22:53:17 UTC 2018
i believe "city of" is redundant as its a classification vs a name.
Would we say "village of maniwaki"? nope.
On Feb 12, 2018 5:51 PM, "Matthew Darwin" <matthew at mdarwin.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am now reviewing the *addr**:city* tag. Seems we are not very
> consistent how we use it. For example, Toronto:
>
> 110707 City of Toronto
> 9603 Toronto
> 4 North York, Toronto
> 2 Toronto, ON
> 2 toronto
> 1 York, Toronto
> 1 Torontoitalian
> 1 Toronto;City of Toronto
> 1 Toronto
>
> Which is correct? "*City of **Toronto*" or "*Toronto*"? I would think
> "Toronto"??? Why do people pick one over the other?
>
> There are more than 7000 unique names in Canada. Below are the top 50.
> Ottawa is not on the top of the list because there was a local decision to
> not include the addr:city tag during address addition as there there are
> many different "city" names since almagamation. (The official Canada Post
> address still has the old municipality name prior to amalgamation while the
> City of Ottawa works through de-duplicating street names).
>
> 110707 City of Toronto
> 100066 Gatineau
> 82606 Montréal
> 79191 Surrey
> 71932 Edmonton
> 51096 Québec
> 45716 City of Hamilton
> 37232 Mississauga
> 35763 Laval
> 32029 Dartmouth
> 30969 Kamloops
> 27234 City of London
> 25393 City of Brampton
> 22881 Municipality of Chatham-Kent
> 18534 Saguenay
> 17921 Lévis
> 17251 City of Vaughan
> 16929 City of St. Catharines
> 16796 Town of Markham
> 16592 City of Kawartha Lakes
> 16403 Trois-Rivières
> 16086 City of Thunder Bay
> 15788 Oakville
> 15335 Sherbrooke
> 14787 City of Niagara Falls
> 14338 Norfolk County
> 13966 City of Kingston
> 13939 Fredericton
> 12085 City of Oshawa
> 11966 Saanich
> 11950 Calgary
> 11382 Terrebonne
> 11332 Richmond Hill
> 11321 City of Barrie
> 11080 Town of Fort Erie
> 10986 Cole Harbour
> 10981 City of Burlington
> 10641 Town of Whitby
> 10635 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
> 10455 Drummondville
> 10347 City of Guelph
> 9906 Municipality of Clarington
> 9666 City of Brantford
> 9603 Toronto
> 9487 Shawinigan
> 9384 City of Sarnia
> 9380 Red Deer
> 9102 City of Windsor
> 9044 City Of Sault Ste. Marie
> 8466 Sudbury
>
>
> --
> Matthew Darwinmatthew at mdarwin.cahttp://www.mdarwin.ca
>
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