Canadian Postal Codes

[adambard]

So I'm pretty sure I got the formatting right. I tried to match the allCountries.txt as closely as possible. I even added tabs at the ends of lines after the fact.

I was going to remove the CA lines from allCountries.txt, but decided against it, since those lines have prettier descriptions.

[samirahmed]

This is awesome. However, seeing as how Canada Post is suing geocoder.ca for their reverse lookup, we will contact them first to get it cleared. Our service is technically different to geocoder.ca - we don't make Addressed into Zips, but instead return general info about them.

[adambard]

I believe geocoder.ca is being sued not for their service but specifically for their free csv download (which, admittedly, I used to create the patch). Fair enough though, it's probably a good idea to check up on it.

[samirahmed]

Hi Adam... we contacted geocoder.ca and have decided to hold of on canadian postal codes and see how that plays out.

Canada is very highly requested so the question keeps coming up... so as soon as that is in we can pull.

[adambard]

Quite fair, I hope it gets sorted out soon. It's weird, Canada Post is claiming copyright on the postal codes, I don't know how they have a case.