Neither block or sector are OSM places. I have used halmet/locality and suburb. by these, rendering is proper if using the existing system could i propose addr:hamlet or addr:suburb support? Also, rendering probably is fine. Its just how gazetteer/nominatim search algo that would require supporting alternate tags.
Thanks, Vikas On 10 January 2011 15:34, Gregory Arenius <greg...@arenius.com> wrote: > It sounds like the current set of tags and structures in OSM don't properly > support what you're trying to do at the moment. I think the best way to > deal with it would to propose some new tags so that these type of addressing > schemes can be properly supported in OSM with supporting documentation. > > It sounds like you need some sort of block or sector tag you could set on > areas to define them properly. A couple of other tags for addressing like > addr:block and addr:sector could then be added. > > It would definitely take some time before they get supported by the > renderers and routers but I think that since a good sized chunk of the world > uses these types of addressing systems we should have an explicit way to > deal with them instead of trying to shoehorn them into a more European > system. It will make it easier for mappers there to do things properly and > probably also make things work more reliably. > > I don't have the experience with this type addressing to feel comfortable > doing any of that but if you put something up on the wiki people can use and > work on it. > > Cheers, > Greg > > >
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