Steve Doerr <steve.doerr@...> writes: >>'Postcode W9 is badly formed' - many streets are tagged with just the first >>part of the postcode (the outbound code).
>>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', The question is whether we want to invent a new postal_district tag for these and retag them all, or continue tagging them as postal_code. I don't see the harm in overloading the postal_code tag to contain both full postcodes and these short codes. If we accept that as established practice, then they don't need a warning. (The warning doesn't say anything useful because it is not possible to just go in and fix it, as for example when a postcode is in lower case, nor does it indicate wrong data - just incomplete data, which we are used to having in OSM.) On the other hand, if we agree that postal_code (or addr:postcode) should be for the full postcode only, then these should be pushed off to another tag and it makes sense to warn about any remaining cases. Of course, there is also a middle way where they don't get retagged, but not accepted as correct either, and the warning keeps firing and people get used to ignoring it, but I think that is less good than the other two choices. -- Ed Avis <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
