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Re: Zip codes and Electoral districts

Posted by Daniel Haran on Feb 09, 2007; 2:28am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Zip-codes-and-Electoral-districts-tp865p871.html

On 2/8/07, Stéphane Zagar <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>  Daniel :
>
>  I don't see how this can be copyrighted. Someone (you Daniel ?) told that
> facts can't be copyrighted. I just can't imagine how this could be
> copyrighted ! Damned I could call every and each Canadien citizen and ask
> him his zipcode and his electoral district, then can't use this ?

You sure could. AFAIK though, the centroid databases I've seen are all
copyrighted and prohibit derivative database creation. Stupid, I know.

>  Concerning the other points you raise :
>  - It's amazing that postal codes can overlap several districts... but I
> can't see how to solve this. Even the Election Canada website uses the
> postal code to find your district.

Hmmm...
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/house/PostalCode.asp?Language=E&txtPostalCode=H1T4C6

elections.ca seems to be giving people the wrong information.... hey,
what do you know, maybe duplication of work is even misleading
Canadians.

>  - I don't see how you get only 1 millions possibilites with this regex. You
> bring the first character from 26 letters to 19. The result is
> 19*10*26*10*26*10 = 12 millions

Ack... I need more caffeine while doing math, and I need to stop using
string sizes to count items. :(

cheers,

Daniel.