state is the Map Features tag value for states, provinces and roughly
synonomous high-level national subdivisions.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dstate
FYI, editing them is real easy with XAPI. The following is a bounding box for
the Philippines. It will download a file that
Follow-up.
the is_in:zip may came from data imports.
OSM map features actually recommends two:
addr:postcode - normally attached to an address node/way of a POI
postal_code - same as above, but can be applied to streets as well
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:22 AM, maning sambale
I suggest using addr:postcode exclusively.
Zip codes in the Philippines is really meant to facilitate addressing and
addr:postcode does that nicely.
Also, I don't think tagging streets with postal_code is that useful and may
even be harmful. We'd be splitting streets whenever they cross a
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest using addr:postcode exclusively.
Zip codes in the Philippines is really meant to facilitate addressing and
addr:postcode does that nicely.
+1 here
Redundancy issue:
The issue above (of which key to use
