[Talk-ca] Cleanup of addr:country, addr:province, addr:state

[john whelan]

For Ontario I would suggest following the post office guidelines for
province and using ON rather than a mixture of ON and Ontario.  That way it
makes it easier to find an address since you just need to search for ON.
Currently you would need to search for both variations.

Cheerio John

On 8 Mar 2018 11:28 pm, "Matthew Darwin" <matthew at mdarwin.ca> wrote:


So I've tidied up the addr:province/state tags, now using only
addr:province, leaving anything that would be generally considered
"correct" either spelt out in full or using English provincial abbreviation
as you might use in a mailing address. Also left "Quebec" (no accent).
I would rather like to clean this up further, however, I have stopped just
at tidying up things that were mis-spelt or had inconsistent case.

Is there any view on where to go next?

These are the current counts:

69008           Nova Scotia
39668           ON
33280           British Columbia
 7788           Alberta
 6584           AB
 4771           BC
 4520           Québec
 3772           Ontario
 2791           QC
 2140           NB
 1744           SK
 1285           NU
 1066           NL
 1022           Manitoba
  879           New Brunswick
  527           Quebec
  307           PE
  234           NS
  222           MB
  163           Saskatchewan
   23           Nunavut
   14           NT
   11           YT
    9           Yukon
    3           Northwest Territories


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