This is how I have always used addr:city. It reflects the postal address since it is a property of the address and not the parcel itself. People once used the is_in tag to capture the other meaning, but it seems unnecessary to me since one can simply check for an enclosing admin boundary.
On November 10, 2015 10:48:20 AM EST, Tod Fitch <[email protected]> wrote: > >So what is a good definition for what should go in the addr:city tag? >If it is based on being within a formal administrative boundary then we >may not need the tag at all as it should be easy for a data consumer to >detect that. I have come to the conclusion that the addr:city is best >to indicate what the locals feel their town name is. In the western US >my impression is that has a high correlation with the USPS designation. >Further, when dealing with any financial or government entity, it seems >the city they want to hear about is the one the post office delivers >to, not some subset or superset defined by a formal boundary of an >incorporated town or city. So equating the post office town name with >the OSM addr:city value seems proper to me. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
