Hi.

I sometimes tag house names if they are known. I don't think the wiki
implies that you should not add house name if you add house number, but I
agree it's not generally useful in terms of delivering mail in Australia.

 - Ben.

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 17:08, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
>  2 things on addresses.
>
>  Firstly house names.
>
> While these exist they are seldom required for postal addresses so the should 
> not be placed into addr:housename=* but rather into name=*.
>
> The wiki specifically implies if there is a addr:housenumber there should be 
> no addr:housename.
> See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr#Commonly_used_subkeys
>
>  Secondly remote addresses - Roadside Mail Box/Bag, Roadside Mail Service, 
> Private Bag etc.
>
> These are hard to find out how to map them on the wiki, I think they need to 
> go into the Australian Tagging guidelines.
>
> The answer is the same for PO boxes - use addr:full=*
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
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