Re: [Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

2023-09-14 Thread Greg Troxel
Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> writes: > On 12/9/23 03:57, Greg Troxel wrote: >> The fundamental issue is that there are postal addresses and what might >> be called "civil addresses" or "physical addresses" ('locational' I >> understand but is not normal English usage). > I could not think of a be

Re: [Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

2023-09-14 Thread Warin
On 14/9/23 04:50, Marc_marc wrote: Le 13.09.23 à 19:21, Jez Nicholson a écrit : OSM addresses are physical, 'locational' addresses ok it is the anomalous postal addresses that need to have their own schemeif at all. some mapper in France are using contact:* for that (and also some con

Re: [Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

2023-09-13 Thread Marc_marc
Le 13.09.23 à 19:21, Jez Nicholson a écrit : OSM addresses are physical, 'locational' addresses ok it is the anomalous postal addresses that need to have their own schemeif at all. some mapper in France are using contact:* for that (and also some contact:addr for a kind of number+stree

Re: [Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

2023-09-13 Thread Jez Nicholson
IMHO OSM addresses are physical, 'locational' addresses and it is the anomalous postal addresses that need to have their own schemeif at all. On Wed, 13 Sep 2023, 17:33 Philip Barnes, wrote: > > > On 12 September 2023 10:28:11 CEST, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >On 12/9/23 03:5

Re: [Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

2023-09-13 Thread Philip Barnes
On 12 September 2023 10:28:11 CEST, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On 12/9/23 03:57, Greg Troxel wrote: >> The fundamental issue is that there are postal addresses and what might >> be called "civil addresses" or "physical addresses" ('locational' I >> understand but is not normal Engli

Re: [Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

2023-09-12 Thread Warin
On 12/9/23 03:57, Greg Troxel wrote: The fundamental issue is that there are postal addresses and what might be called "civil addresses" or "physical addresses" ('locational' I understand but is not normal English usage). I could not think of a better descriptive 'word' for what I wanted to ex

Re: [Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

2023-09-11 Thread Greg Troxel
The fundamental issue is that there are postal addresses and what might be called "civil addresses" or "physical addresses" ('locational' I understand but is not normal English usage). In the US, we also have "911 dispatchable location" which is all about getting there physically and is US-bureauc

Re: [Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

2023-09-10 Thread Snusmumriken via Tagging
On Sun, 2023-09-10 at 19:09 +1000, Warin wrote: > HI, > > I am coming across cases of OSM entered addresses on buildings that > are > some kilometers from the nominated address location. These appear to > be > 'gated communities', 'retirement villages' and possibly other things > that use some

Re: [Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

2023-09-10 Thread Jez Nicholson
There's https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:delivery_point but I wasn't convinced by the description On Sun, 10 Sep 2023, 10:15 Warin, <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI, > > I am coming across cases of OSM entered addresses on buildings that are > some kilometers from the nominated address

[Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

2023-09-10 Thread Warin
HI, I am coming across cases of OSM entered addresses on buildings that are some kilometers from the nominated address location. These appear to be 'gated communities', 'retirement villages' and possibly other things that use some official address and thus keep deliveries from going to the ac