On 2020-12-20 14:13, ipswichmapper--- via Talk-GB wrote:
> Marking city, town etc is not necessary in UK because Geocoders like
> nominatim can figure those out using afministrative boundaries.
Postal addresses have no relation to administrative boundaries. They are
simply "what you need to put on an envelope so Royal Mail can put it
through the right letter box".
Boundaries of "post town" areas are not in OSM, nor can they be
considered "administrative". Post Towns, Dependent Localities and
Double-Dependent Localities are not mapped (nor mappable) to Districts
etc or Civil Parishes.
> What is important is the housenumber and street:
> "addr:housenumber=99
> addr:street= Postal Street"
>
> And postcode:
> "addr:postcode=XY9 7GY"
>
> Note, all postcodes are available freely:
>
> https://raggedred.net/codepoint/
>
> IpswichMapper
> --
>
> 20 Dec 2020, 12:45 by dave.abb...@pandaemonia.org:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to make sure I tag addresses correctly. I am currently trying to
>> understand how to map in my area.
>>
>> The postal addresses are like:
>>
>> 99 Postal Street
>> Smalltown
>> Largertown
>> West Yorks XY9 7GY
>>
>> Smalltown is geographically separate to Largertown, which however is the
>> Postal Town. Omitting Smalltown from the address is probably correct
>> postally-speaking, but local residents would object as Smalltown is seen as
>> completely separate to other places under the same Postal Town.
>>
>> Currently tagging as -
>> addr:housenumber=99
>> addr:street=Postal Street
>> addr:city=Smalltown, Largertown
>>
>> But I am pretty sure this is wrong.
>>
>> There is a page at
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/UK_Address_Mapping which
>> mentions "suggested tags" but there is no evidence that this is in use. If
>> correct I would be tagging as -
>>
>> addr:housenumber=99
>> addr:street=Postal Street
>> addr:town=Smalltown
>> addr:city=Largertown
>>
>> Hoping someone can advise me as to the correct way to tag for the UK...
>>
>> Dave Abbott (OSM user DaveyPorcy)
>
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