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    4. mcgillthrowaway22 on

      Why does this map make it look like H is for New England? Edit: just realized that there are arrows on this map. The background is transparent so on the Reddit map the arrows just blend into the black background

    6. FPSCanarussia on

      That makes sense. No letters that can easily be confused with numbers or each other, and Z isn’t used because Nunavut and the NWT were one territory when the codes were implemented.

      I wonder if the records exist for how they decided which letters to use. I guess F might be confused for P? And W being excluded from the first position only… Maybe they just really wanted S for Saskatchewan and Y for the Yukon.

    7. captyo on

      I feel like there are way too many post codes in the east. Like why does NS and PEI have different codes? They even share a phone area code!

      Also I understand the GTA getting its own, but why have P, K and N as separate codes?

    8. Issac-Cox-Daley on

      Q F D and W looking at each other wondering why we don’t want them.

    9. diegoeripley on

      Hey, I know a bit about this topic. If you want to visualize the Forward Sortation Areas (first 3 characters of a Canadian postal code), you can use Statistics Canada’s Census Forward Sortation Areas file [1] (but there are several issues with the methodology used to create it so I would not really use it for anything important). Instead I would use Statistics Canada’s National Address Register [2], they have postal codes at the address level (as points). You can technically link them to the road network file and create your own representation of the postal codes, much the same way that Google does. The bias of Statistics Canada data is that their registers are primarily focused on people, not businesses, so you might be missing some business postal codes in there.

      [1] [https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/92-179-X](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/92-179-X)

      [2] [https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/46-26-0002/462600022022001-eng.htm](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/46-26-0002/462600022022001-eng.htm)

    10. brandonscript on

      This all makes so much sense except for most of it.

      – Vancouver
      – alberTa? maybe edmonTon
      – Saskatchewan
      – maybe Rinnepeg or bRandon or Ranitoba? Not Regina though that’s next door
      – Pontario because it’s close to O but O is too much like 0 or maybe Peterborough but that’s in K… for
      – Kingston!
      – toroNto not to be confused with alberTa
      – montreJal it’s spanish obv like jalapeño
      – and it’s bestie montreHal
      – quebeG
      – Yukon!
      – Xorthwest territories or iXaluit probably that’s spanish again I guess
      – nEw brunswick
      – Charlottetown!
      – cape Breton
      – lAbrador or newfoundlAnd

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