If I have an address for the form
N Somewhere Street
Foo
Bar
Code
so that
addr:housnumber=N
addr:street=Somewhere Street
addr:city=Bar
addr:postcode=Code
where does Foo go, when Foo is a village or a suburb that is used as
part of the address. I see we have addr:hamlet, but we
I believe there is an address locallity which can be used in this case.
Why city though? Isn't posttown more correct, not every address contains the
name of city. Mine for example, Shrewsbury. It is a large town, but not a city.
To be a city it would require a cathedral.
Phil
On 08/05/2012
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
To be a city it would require a cathedral.
Or a charter... Cambridge is a city without a cathedral, for example.
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On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
I believe there is an address locallity which can be used in this case.
Yes, and this is consistent with rural Irish addresses which don't use
street and housenumbering, but divide parishes into townlands, which
In general, the world considers a city to be a very large town. In the
UK (and possibly other places) the concept of city has specific
connotations, namely the granting of Letters Patent by the Crown (a
cathedral is not a prerequisite, nor is it a guarantee of city status!)
A similar system
Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
In general, the world considers a city to be a very large town. In
the
UK (and possibly other places) the concept of city has specific
connotations, namely the granting of Letters Patent by the Crown (a
cathedral is not a prerequisite, nor is it a
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 12:05 +0200, Colin Smale wrote:
In general, the world considers a city to be a very large town. In
the UK (and possibly other places) the concept of city has specific
connotations, namely the granting of Letters Patent by the Crown (a
cathedral is not a prerequisite, nor
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
That is very true, although I had assumed that on recieving a city
charter a church is normally made a cathedral
No, that's a completely separate matter, handled by the Church of
England --- the charter is from the
But in the US the administrative municipality for an address may be
different than the city that is used for mailing to that address, which is
regulated by the US Post Office (and I think tied to zip code). For
example, residences in villages or towns may have a larger city/town nearby
as their
Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 12:05 +0200, Colin Smale wrote:
In general, the world considers a city to be a very large town. In
the UK (and possibly other places) the concept of city has
specific
connotations, namely the granting of Letters Patent by the
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Philip Barnes p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote:
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 13:30 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Nathan Mills nat...@nwacg.net wrote:
So this is not/should not be a mini_roundabout? It seems a little silly to
call it anything
At 2012-05-08 07:02, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
But in the US the administrative municipality for an address may be
different than the city that is used for mailing to that address, which is
regulated by the US Post Office (and I think tied to zip code).
To get back to the original question, I
The problems with this tag are the same with most tags. The history
goes something like:
1) The original creator has a very specific real-world object in mind:
painted roundabout patterns on intersections in their local area
2) Other people in the local area recognise this real-world concept
and
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote:
What about closed ways tagged with barrier=* and some other ambiguous
*=* (e.g. barrier=hedge amenity=marketplace).
No, the tag barrier=* is not ambiguous and is
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