My usual disclaimer that I have no great OSM expertise. Hopefully I can give a newbie's/recently-a-non-editor's perspective.
This: > How about not needing to start Google Maps > when searching for a location on the go? would be reason enough to bring in postcodes in this way. Even if they're not strictly 'on-the-ground', every rule needs exceptions and the payoff from this exception would be _enormous_. (And is anyway consistent with loc_name which is allowed even where the name is nowhere written on signs on-the-ground?) On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 11:20, David Woolley <for...@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote: > On 04/10/2019 00:26, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote: > > There's no point in importing to stand alone nodes as deliveries are > > destined for buildings. Adding to streets is also pointless for the same > > reason plus they can have multiple postcodes. > > Deliveries are to specific points on buildings. In principle they could > also be to US style post boxes, on the property boundary. > > (Actually, the human entrance for a building might be in a different > post code area from the mail delivery point, although I can't think of > good examples.) > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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