/Delurk Did someone mention postcodes? ;-) (Include standard disclaimer)
Re: the privacy issue, I think it comes down to the mess that is Ireland's addressing system, in part at least. At present an address alone isn't enough to uniquely identify about 600,000 (mostly rural) addresses, a personal name is also needed. In many cases even that isn't enough as there may be numerous houses in a townland where people have the same surname and initials. Eircode will resolve this. As for adding the postcode as a tag in OSM, this was mentioned briefly at the GIS Ireland conference debate on postcodes. The view from the organisation implementing the postcodes (nothing to do with me, honest!) was that while the database of codes will be covered by copyright the codes themselves won't be, so at least we know that adding them won't cause copyright issues for OSM down the line. /Relurk (I'm mad busy, will return properly to OSM activities after Xmas) Richard -=- Sent from my phone > On 14 Nov 2014, at 14:50, Dave Corley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Regarding possible privacy issues, I've yet to find someone to explain to > me how a buildings eircode is any different from a buildings address. > > As for adding postcodes to addresses at all, as sad as it is to say, only > Eircode will end up being widely used and as it will be the officially > recognised postcode in use in the country, it is the only one which should > be added under the tag addr:postcode. I do not discriminate against other > code providers when I say this either. People are free to use what they > want, but in terms of being the officially recognized code, there will only > be one. > > There will still be the option to use, for example, addr:postcode:loc8, > addr:postcode:openpostcode etc for others if people still want to add > those. > > Given that there are over 250,000 buildings already in the OSM dataset for > Ireland there is room to have a discussion regarding adding those > alternatives under the suggested tags above. Given OSM tagging freedom, its > one of the few locations where all codes could co-exist > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ie mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
