On 20/03/2011 21:34, Matt Williams wrote:
On 20 March 2011 21:08, Ed Avis<[email protected]> wrote:
'Postcode W9 is badly formed' - many streets are tagged with just the first part of the postcode (the outbound code). This is signed on the ground, and is useful to disambiguate street names, so it ought not to be an error. I think you are already allowing it on ways, but there are a few odd nodes that have it, usually road junctions. I wouldn't tag it on the junction node myself, but if it's there then it is not wrong.
Yes, you're right that it's an overly harsh error message and it's by far the most common 'error' in my database. I do however want to flag these as, while they are certainly useful, they are not 'true postcodes'.
I agree with the last point: 'postcode' is a misnomer in these cases. This form of addressing existed for decades before 'postcodes' were invented. 'W9' (or 'W.9') would have been referred to as a 'postal district', not a 'postcode' or 'postal code'. Of course, if you go back far enough, even the numbers didn't exist, e.g.'10 Downing Street, S.W.'.
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