In this case, I'll work on matching up the addresses with the postal city names.
Saikrishna Arcot On 01/13/2014 01:28 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > On 1/13/14 11:05 AM, Carl Anderson wrote: >> Looking at the wiki for addresses >> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Address), addr:city is intended to >> hold the postal community and not the legal municipal name. >> >> 911 and 311 call centers struggle with this problem all the time in >> that frequently, multiple locale names are in use and valid for a >> location. The authoritativeness or correctness of a name has to be >> judged in the context in which it is used. >> > this is a big can which contains many worms. > > as far as i know, when e911 was set up in NY, the enhanced 911 > addresses were conformed to the postal addresses (and new postal > addresses were assigned as the old RR system was retired.) > > so from my perspective, i favor conforming our addressing to the > postal/e911 standard as i understand it. > > this is potentially very confusing. for example, the Schenectady post > office (city of schenectady in the county of schenectady) delivers > mail to a number of addresses in the town of colonie (in albany > county NY.) first responders will come from the appropriate > department in Albany County (unless something really bad is going > on.) > > and for a given post office, they may accept mail for more than > one community name, reflecting historical communities for which > there is no legal standing but some cultural standing. for > example, in my old neighborhood in Troy NY, mail could be > addressed to me both for Troy and for Lansingburgh, even > though the independent city of Lansingburgh ceased to exist > about 100 years ago. > > richard > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
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