[Talk-ca] Open addresses from Statistics Canada

[Kevin Farrugia]

It includes postal codes only if the municipal source included postal
codes, so it won't be a common feature.  A fair number of municipalities
avoid releasing postal codes with their addresses because of Canada Post's
stance on their IP.
-Kevin

On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 10:10, Jarek Piórkowski <jarek at piorkowski.ca> wrote:

> Has its licence, "Open Government Licence – Canada", been cleared by
> OSM legal with that specific name?
>
> Here is the link: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/lode/databases/oda
> (the ZIPs aren't downloading right now, might be everyone trying to
> download them?)
>
> It claims to include postal code which could be pretty useful for OSM
> as I don't think there's any other open datasets with Canadian postal
> codes
>
> On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 10:00, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > According to weeklyosm these are now available.
> >
> > Cheerio John
> > _______________________________________________
> > Talk-ca mailing list
> > Talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
>
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-ca mailing list
> Talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/attachments/20210523/190b62d4/attachment-0001.htm>