Sorry, I only have yet more questions. Once you get out into rural areas, it's sometimes the case that an entire hamlet is covered by a one or two postcodes. There may be named streets but according to RM/PAF these are ignored and such addresses take the form: building name/number, locality, post town, postcode. The more natural fit, following the structure prompted in the iD editor, for example, would be building name/number, street, locality*, postcode.
*The locality suggested depends on how the area you're working in has been mapped. Obviously when mapping you are free to override this. HD8 8XU & HD8 8XY are a case in point. Do we map to fit the validator — in this case, https://osm.mathmos.net/addresses/pc-stats/HD/HD8/8 which they have fallen foul of — or something else? Even in villages with established streets and house numbers, there will be outlying properties where the street names will be foregone: S36 7GG is an example of this. Additionally, it's not clear whether name or addr:housename (or both) should be used when mapping anything from a a detached house to a building split into multiple addressable units (eg terraces, flats). Regards, *Paul* On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 22:05, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> wrote: > I'm not quite sure what you've done with the quoting but you've attributed > me > as writing your reply, which evidently I didn't. :) > > Will Phillips wrote: > > I really don't see what is outlandish about using post towns as a > > guide for what goes in the addr:city tag. Royal Mail might be becoming > > less important, but when most people are asked for their address, they > > will give their address as defined by Royal Mail. > > > > Looking at the Companies House Registered Companies data for > > Charlbury, I find 235 addresses of which 170 include Chipping Norton. > > I find Registered Companies data useful because the addresses appear > > unvalidated and therefore show addresses as people actually enter them. > > No-one in Charlbury describes themselves as living in Chipping Norton. > Honestly, no-one. It's a separate town. > > Companies House data for my company shows a registered address of 11 Market > Street, Charlbury, Chipping Norton. That is not because I think I live in > Chipping Norton. That is because, when you register a company, the > Companies > House autocomplete thing takes your postcode and fills in the Royal Mail > post-town and other details from PAF. > > (TBH, I'm not entirely convinced post towns help Royal Mail in any case, > given the amount of mail mistakenly delivered to us that is actually meant > for Mr G------- at 11 Market Street, Chipping Norton...) > > Richard > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Great-Britain-f5372682.html > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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