[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
>
>
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>
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