I probably should have used "desirable" instead of "required" (*), but even then this is not "desirable" for countries where postal code boundaries are mapped as relations.
(*) please look at the video and see which text is pasted in the Wikibase definition for addr:street. On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 3:51 PM Tod Fitch <t...@fitchfamily.org> wrote: > > > > > On Aug 6, 2019, at 12:56 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > sent from a phone > > > >> On 6. Aug 2019, at 05:33, Tod Fitch <t...@fitchfamily.org> wrote: > >> > >> When I walk down a street collecting house numbers I have no indication of > >> the ZIP code of each building. If you require ZIP codes then I am forced > >> into an import situation rather than a field survey > > > > > > you might survey this by asking locals about their address, or by looking > > at addresses that businesses publish about themselves. > > > > Cheers Martin > > When I map businesses I do look to see what they publish about themselves and > the ZIP code as well as hours of operation can be easily determined. But if > you are asking me to knock on doors in residential areas or ask total > strangers who look like they might be locals what their ZIP code is as I > collect non-business addresses you are asking too much. > > In the suburban sprawl of my country I am guessing there are far more > residential addresses than business addresses. So putting postal code > requirement on my collecting house numbers means that either we will never > have a critical mass of house numbers or we will be doing it all with > imports. By critical mass, I mean a sufficient density of numbers so people > use OSM as their first choice for looking up an address to navigate to. At > least where I live, ZIP codes are not needed or normally used for when giving > an address for a navigation destination. ZIP codes are used really for just > one thing: Delivering mail. > > I can see a suggestion in the wiki that acquiring a postal/ZIP code for an > address is desirable to provide completeness. But making it a requirement? No. > > Cheers Tod. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
