On 17 March 2011 12:17, Ben Pollinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried a few UK streets I had tagged with postcodes and it didn't > work, but I guess that is because they use > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Postal_code > > Could this tag be supported too? It seems quite widely used > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/?key=postal_code > > TagInfo says 48 306 values altogether for postal_code, versus 60 941 > for addr:postcode. > I've been switching any feature I find over to addr:postcode. Much easier. Making developers work out these wrinkles so they have to support multiple tags is one of a few good reasons for us to have a process to just update the db and translate all postal_code keys to addr:postcode (if it were accepted by a process more valid than wiki votes). Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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