Yes, but one "postal city" commonly contains multiple "postal codes", so storing the postal city in the postal code tag represents a loss of detail.
On J,une 26, 2014 2:33:12 PM CDT, Richard Welty <rwe...@averillpark.net> wrote: > On 6/26/14 3:20 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > > Postal code usually means Zip code, or its non-USA equivalent, not > city. > this is one of those fussy points in US geocoding. > > the zip code can be mapped to the postal "city", which is what is > in everyone's addresses, and is what i think most us residents > initially expect when typing an address into a search box. > > the underlying point being that there isn't one true geocoder, > it depends entirely on what you're trying to accomplish. something > driven by postal codes/addresses can be correct for many > applications, while being wrong for others. > > to my mind the fact that we keep going in circles about this > is evidence that we're thinking about the problem the wrong way. > > richard -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
