On 2020-12-20 15:41, Chris Hill wrote:
> Addresses in OSM are not the same as Royal Mail's addresses. RM addresses are
> all about their processes for delivering post to delivery points. The postal
> town (Largertown in your example) is a convenience for RM that we have all
> been persuaded is useful, but RM have ceased to use postal towns for many
> years!
Are you not thinking of Postal Counties? They were indeed deprecated
many years ago (1996), but the Post Town is AFAIK a mandatory component
of a postal address, and Wikipedia agrees:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_town
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