Downloading PEI Civic Address Data
In recent years, Prince Edward Island has moved to a uniform system of civic addresses, where each property in the province is assigned a unique civic address. Originally intended to enable the 911 emergency system, the civic addressing system, because it ties civic address data to latitude and longitude geolocation information, has tremendous utility for other applications.
The province's Address Locator page links to several web-based applications for looking up civic addresses. In addition, raw civic data is available from a form-based data download page.
Documented here is a PHP script that enables the automatic creation of a MySQL database and download and import of current civic address data. The system was created to enable the PEI Civic Address Lookup with AJAX application, but can be used to drive any application that relies upon having access to digital Prince Edward Island address information.
