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Re:Government report proves that we need to liberate the Pos... by gregsadetsky on Friday August 23, 2024 @06:04PM (#41333481)
Canada is in the same spot with the postal code data being for sale only.

Relatedly and famously, Canada Post sued [0] geocoder.ca [1] years ago because it made available a crowdsourced database of postal codes...

Years later, the case was settled [2] but yeah. You still have to pay for the "real" data.

[0] https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2012/04/canada-post-geocoder-sui...

[1] https://geocoder.ca/

[2] https://geocoder.ca/?sued=1 (nice url...)

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