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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hey GRASS users crew,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">A new mailing list has started up to support data agmentation of the Statistic Canada Road Network File (RNF). The need is to create a dataset that is open and free for geocoding addresses in Canada. The main project page can be found here (for now):</FONT></P>
<P><A HREF="http://www.pagcgeo.org/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://www.pagcgeo.org/</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"We have been working on creating an FSA (or Forward Sortation Area, the first three characters of a Canadian postal code) polygon layer. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">To do this, we are using the 2005 RNF and 2001 Census Division file both from Statistics Canada, along with information from Canada Post on the names of roads that serve as FSA boundaries. We have made some progress at this point, but ultimately there is a fair amount of hand work involved, and we need hands to help.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Dan</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">To join in the discussion or lend a hand please visit our mailing list:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">can_rnf@geodata.osgeo.org</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Signup on the lists page:</FONT>
<BR><A HREF="https://geodata.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">https://geodata.osgeo.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Cheers</FONT>
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