IMHO OSM addresses are physical, 'locational' addresses and it is the anomalous postal addresses that need to have their own scheme....if at all.
On Wed, 13 Sep 2023, 17:33 Philip Barnes, <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > > > 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 English usage). > >I could not think of a better descriptive 'word' for what I wanted to > express. > >> In the US, we also have > >> "911 dispatchable location" which is all about getting there physically > >> and is US-bureaucatic-speak. > >> > >> OSM has decided to tag postal addresses on address points. I find this > >> an odd choice, and I think it really doesn't mean this, as companies > >> that use PO boxes are not tagged that way, but with the street address. > >> > >> The only fix I think of is to have a separate set of tags paddr: and a > >> rule that those should be set if they are different from the addr: tags > >> (which are postal). except postcode, which is a postal-only. > > > > > >Err the zip/postcode in the UK is a (small) physical area. It is used by > truck delivery drivers to enter into their GPS to find a route to the > delivery point. See > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom > > > >Possibly the OSM addr thinking is based on the UK where the postal > address is the physical location?There maybe exceptions to this in the UK > too? > > > The company I work for has a PO box meaning the postcode is not the actual > location. > > Visitors often arrive having put the postcode into their satnav and have > had a detour via the Royal Mail sorting office several miles away. > > Putting the company name into an OSM based router will take you straight > there. > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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