Re: Needed Canadian Postal Codes with Longitude and Latitude
Date: 1998/04/14
Message-ID: <6gvr6c$q9j6_at_piper.ncr.pwgsc.gc.ca>#1/1
The Post Office sells a CD-ROM with all of the Postal Codes & Addresses. Note that some postal codes are assigned to large volume mailers, buildings, gov't organizations etc. There are all on the CD in various ASCII files.
Brian Inglis wrote in message <352e493c.95356830_at_news.cadvision.com>...
>On 8 Apr 1998 14:03:28 GMT, "Bart Colosino" <bart_at_accesscom.net>
>wrote:
>
>>We are looking for an ascii file with the Cansdian Postal codes and
>>longitude and latitude for a project. Anyone having a database of this
>>sort, please contact me at bart_at_accesscom.net
>>
>>Thanks in Advance
>>Bart
>>
>>Data Format needed:
>>
>>postal code,city/county name, lattitude & longitude (in decimal degrees)
>>
>
>Bart,
>Canadian postal codes map to one side of a street segment (walk).
>There does not seem to be any geographical correlation.
>The urban mapping is roughly letter=province
>digit+letter=municipality/city area digit=subdivision
>letter+digit=walk/street segment+(odd or even) address range.
>Canadian telcos publish these at the back of directories.
>You may need to try to get a hold of one of these lists, plus a street
>address to lat/long list, and join the info to get what you want.
>Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis
Received on Tue Apr 14 1998 - 00:00:00 CEST