On 17 March 2011 13:40, Tom Chance <[email protected]> wrote: > 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).
I currently accept both equally since postal_code had been around a long time before the Karlsruhe Schema. However, I would be happy for a tag convergence on addr:postcode since it makes things a little easier. These days I only add addr:postcode and this is what I recommend on the tagging page of the postcode finder. I wouldn't be averse to a mass 're-tagging'. If people want to discuss this though I suggest we start a new thread. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
