Chris, local authorities only deal with house number and street naming. The
rest is down to Royal Mail. Should we perhaps start by asking ourselves what we
mean by an address in the context of OSM? Is it actually a postal address? That
is certainly what I think most people would expect.
We certainly don't need the phoney, contrived postal town. That is purely a
Royal Mail invention that serves no useful purpose for anyone else. RM is just
one user of addressing amongst many.
Addressing is not created by Royal Mail, it is maintained by local authorities.
We should start there.
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