On 3/3/14 11:30 AM, Saikrishna Arcot wrote:
> Regarding the addr:city, based on two addresses located in Sandy Springs (as 
> defined by OSM), the USPS accepts both Atlanta and Sandy Springs as the 
> address, and gives the same ZIP+4 value for both. If it's preferred, I can 
> have the addr:city included, but note that it will conflict with the city 
> boundaries that are already in OSM.
>
postal addresses will frequently conflict with administrative
boundaries. the question here is basically how do you want
indexes for search engines (e.g. nominatim) to be set up?
the addr: data is what will be used, along with admin boundaries,
to populate the indexes. there is a big can of worms here.

richard

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