Not displaying a house number is particularly prevalent with 'end of cul-de-sac' man where this makes working out where odd and even meet.
Phil (trigpoint) On Tuesday, 30 July 2019, David Woolley wrote: > On 30/07/2019 14:19, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > Is it typical for post codes to be posted like housenumbers? Either on > > buildings or postboxes? > > Postcodes almost never. The only time you would normally find them is > where the building is a company's registered office. > > Housenumbers seem to be only on (gut feeling) about 30% of houses these > days, and maybe 5% of commercial premises. (When they are on houses, > they are typically unreadable after dark. Almost no-one has front gates > any longer, which might have carried them in the past.) > > What appears on street signs and post boxes is the outbound postcode (up > to the end of the first number). > > Businesses are required to provide an address for service in > advertising, including web sites. This may well be their accountant's. > Electronically, they need to provide a geographic address, but, on > paper, I think a PO Box number is acceptable. Non-compliance is > endemic, e.g. businesses only contactable over mobile phone numbers. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
