At low level (commercial areas, academic campuses, hospitals) that's not really the case. They are not as formalised as admin areas.
Best wishes, Andrzej On 28 January 2019 05:46:23 GMT+08:00, Gareth L <o...@live.co.uk> wrote: >I’d hope these would inherit from whatever the address is enclosed in. > >On 27 Jan 2019, at 21:22, Colin Smale ><colin.sm...@xs4all.nl<mailto:colin.sm...@xs4all.nl>> wrote: > > >Assuming the post code is seen in OSM as a way of addressing post (as >opposed to a geographic subdivision or an indication of location) then >I suggest following Royal Mail's address structure, which can be seen >in the description of the Postcode Address File on Wikipedia [1]. If we >cannot map a full-format address onto OSM tags, we need a description >of how to deal with this (i.e. which bits to leave out or combine). > >I have taken the table from wikipedia and added a column for the OSM >tags where known. Most of these fields are actually optional, or not >always present, depending on the exact address in question. > >How do we fill in the blanks? > > >Element Field name Description Max length OSM >Organisation Organisation Name 60 n/a >Department Name 60 n/a >Premises Sub Building Name 30 >Building Name 50 addr:housename >Building Number 4 addr:housenumber >Thoroughfare Dependent Thoroughfare Name 60 >Dependent Thoroughfare Descriptor 20 >Thoroughfare Name Street 60 addr:street >Thoroughfare Descriptor 20 >Locality Double Dependent Locality Small villages 35 >Dependent Locality 35 >Post town 30 addr:city >Postcode Postcode 7 addr:postcode >PO Box PO Box 6 > > > >[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcode_Address_File > > > > >On 2019-01-27 21:40, Andrzej wrote: > >Hi, > >When working on post codes in East Anglia I realised the current >address tagging scheme is insufficient for even fairly basic scenarios. >I have already discussed the issues with some of the most experienced >mappers and like to bring these issues to your attention. Robert has >summarised his ideas in >https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/UK_Address_Mapping > >The bottom line is, I would like to be tag commonly used addresses >without losing information and without resorting to addr:full. > >Issues: >1. Post towns (most pressing one because there is a lot of confusion >around it). The UK is fairly unique in that not every town is a post >town. This makes it impossible to tag e.g. Station Road, Histon, >Cambridge CB24 9LF. >Wiki recommends addr:city to be used for tagging post towns (Cambridge) >but then how do we tag Histon? >- Robert recommends sticking to the current meaning of addr:city and >using addr:town and addr:village for town and village names, which, >although not in wiki, are already being used in the UK. I like this >solution because it is very explicit in what each addr: key means and >it doesn't redefine addr:city. >- SK53 prefers using addr:city for everything (towns, even villages) >and either not tagging post towns (they can be seen as a an internal >detail of a closed Royal Mail database) or using a new tag for it, like >addr:post_town. It is a simple solution, results in Histon being called >Histon and not Cambridge (without introducing new tags for town and >village names) and is commonly used. It is also a bit confusing (what >exactly is a city?) and I think we we should at least support tagging >post towns. > >Key questions: >a) addr:city for post towns or towns and villages? >b) how to rag remaining information (respectively, towns and villages >or post towns,) > >2. Tagging addresses within campuses, business parks etc. There is >addr:place but it is supposed to be used instead of addr:street. Again, >Robert has a fairly decent proposal for that using addr:place or >addr:locality and addr:parentstreet. Please comment. > >2a. should buildings in campuses be tagged with >addr:buildingnumber/name or addr:unit? I would prefer >buildingname/number (as they are often subdivided) but these seem to be >associated with addr:street. > >3. Similar to (2) but for buildings. Tagging buildings that have e.g. a >single name but multiple house numbers? > >Best regards, >ndrw6 > > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-GB mailing list >Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >_______________________________________________ >Talk-GB mailing list >Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<mailto:Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org> >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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