 sbrookPremium,Mod
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Ottawa
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1 edit | Map for Toronto POIs This is my best guesstimate for the Toronto POIs.
I don't know what serves East York (between Vic. Pk. and the Don River)
There will be local variations ... but this is the approximate layout.
It tends to follow the old Municipal boundaries of Toronto, Etobicoke, Scarborough, North York, East York etc.
»maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&m···0c3d07cb |
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 HiVoltPremium
join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON
kudos:15 | Re: Map for Tornto POIs Cool!  |
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Very nice! Well done! |
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 JGROCKYPremium,VIP
join:2005-05-19
Chatham, ON | reply to sbrook
Nice! |
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HiVoltPremium
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| Rocky, when you guys take an order, do you know which POI it's assigned to?
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BUCK FELL. From UBB to AVP. Same wolf in sheep's clothing. |
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very well done! thanks - needed this!!!! |
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| See my post
»Update on recent new POIs/Upgrades |
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sbrookPremium,Mod
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1 edit | I doubt that the post code list includes the actual POI it will be on.
Rogers and the other cable operators don't publish cable service coverage maps for their overall service area (unlike for cellular service), so I doubt they'd release head end info.
My info was simply based on the little I know of how the cable companies were originally laid out in the cities and hence given the location of the POIs, the areas they'd cover.
And if you think I'm gonna sit down and reverse engineer Post Code to POI!!! I don't have 12 months to spend on that project because then you'd want to verify becaues there'd be mistakes. |
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HiVoltPremium
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| Could we put together a list, from at least of current members, with the first 3 letters of the postal code they're on, and the POI they're on according to their tracert.
We could put pins on the google map colour coded, that could help create a more accurate coverage map.
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| said by HiVolt:Could we put together a list, from at least of current members, with the first 3 letters of the postal code they're on, and the POI they're on according to their tracert.
We could put pins on the google map colour coded, that could help create a more accurate coverage map.
The POI boundaries will either be major streets or geographic obstacles (rivers or ravines). With some intelligent guesses as to where to ask to get data from, (ie. if we suspect that 3 POI's intersect at Eglinton/Keele, then we get people in each quadrant about that intersection to give us info) the boundaries in Toronto could probably be ascertained with about 200 data points.
Maybe some stuff can be dug out of archive.org for Graham Cable, Shaw (when they were in Toronto), as I suspect that some of the POI's as noted above have not likely to have changed since those days. |
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| Heres that data (postal code boundaries) from canada post. -> »www.canadapost.ca/cpc2/addrm/hh/···LL-e.asp
More specifically for the GTA -> »www.canadapost.ca/cpc2/addrm/hh/···ON20.pdf |
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sbrookPremium,Mod
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Ottawa
kudos:4 | From what I've seen of both Ottawa and Toronto postcode maps, there's gonna be a LOT of the "ANA" codes that will overlap the area boundaries.
I think it takes more than the first half of the code to do this. |
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HiVoltPremium
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| Well, we could do the full postal code... We dont have to post it in the public forum, they can be PM'd to sbrook and he can enter it anonymously on the map as a "Scarlett User" or "McNicoll user".
Make a sticky post requesting the info, how to obtain your POI name if you don't already know, and presto... Would be neat IMO, and it could help in the newer POIs outside of the GTA where they cover a larger area.
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BUCK FELL. From UBB to AVP. Same wolf in sheep's clothing. |
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| M5A 4H8 is Bloor2. |
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sbrookPremium,Mod
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said by HiVolt:Well, we could do the full postal code... We dont have to post it in the public forum, they can be PM'd to sbrook and he can enter it anonymously on the map as a "Scarlett User" or "McNicoll user".
Aww Gee, thanks! Your generosity is overwhelming. Another job I barely have time for !
I think the best thing to do is to just have people email me here at DSLR if they are served by a "DIFFERENT POI" from the one indicated on the map for their address and sufficient tracert that I can verify it.
That will be far and away less work for me and something I am prepared to do. Anybody who emails me and are within the correct geographic area will have a disconnect request placed with TSI
I can't verify Rogers phubs from traces at this time, so please don't send me apparent corrections based on Rogers users. If that changes in the future, I'll consider doing that.
Address is going to be far more accurate than post code which is one reason why we're getting quite a few "It's not available for me but it accepts my post code" messages. |
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sbrookPremium,Mod
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I just spent a few minutes verifying the post code that karennewton just provided. It took me several minutes to do the crosschecking to discover that there's absolutely no question from the map I did that she's in Bloor ... making me convinced that the correct way to do this is just by address and the map ...
If the map's wrong send me address or post code and I'll compile corrections to the map. That's far more productive. |
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HiVoltPremium
join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON
kudos:15 | reply to sbrook
Can you give someone else access to modify the map? heck i'll plot the pins of users if you like... no big deal.
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sbrookPremium,Mod
join:2001-12-14
Ottawa
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1 edit | A million pins are just going to overwhelm the map. You want a pinned map, make a copy of it and you could do it ... I'd rather leave mine by address. |
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 ajhajiPremium
join:2002-03-02
North York, ON | reply to sbrook
Nice job! |
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said by HiVolt:Can you give someone else access to modify the map? heck i'll plot the pins of users if you like... no big deal.
I threw together a little Google Maps script for this at »www.canadiancow.com/teksavvy/index.php
Enter your address, postal code, or some other piece of information that can be geolocated to a latitude and longitude, and click "Add". It will do a traceroute to you, and assuming you're on TekSavvy, it will pull the name of the POI from the results. If it can't resolve it, then it will just use the IP address, but this can be changed later if we get the name.
Let me know what you think, and if you encounter any problems. |
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