Hi, Yes, I was talking about in OSM, so was reluctant to go looking up the RM version. When I used to sell stuff I did check with the RM website before sending stuff out. In my local area I know which postcodes are for which post town so I can correct without referring to the RM. For delivery, yes, only the postcode and house number are strictly needed (with a few exceptions where there is both a main and subsidiary street). The remainder is basically a backup. I don't really see that that ought to prevent us mapping full address data in OSM. Adam
On 19 October 2017 at 13:32, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 19/10/17 13:15, Adam Snape wrote: > > But Ebbsfleet is not a Post Town. The address will include Swanscombe. I > > should have said before that my experience (as an eBay seller) is lots > > of people are unaware of their correct postal address. Each postcode > > section eg. DA1, DA2, DA3... will have a particular post town, so I > > correct this which I know to be wrong for the postcode. Because several > > of the editors don't include a box for suburb or hamlet it is aslo > > common to see names of villages or suburbs in the tagged as addr:city. > > From a postal point of view, the result of a lookup on the Royal Mail > website is the best way of checking a postcode and the return from DA10 > 1AZ is longer than some results and is what Steve listed originally. If > we can actually use that view of the data is a little grey, but one can > at least check where one is shipping something is correct. I'm sure > manually top level sorting post, the post person will be looking at the > postal town rather than the postcode, but on automated machines then > only the name and postcode are relevant. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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