On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:59:44PM +0000, Dave Stubbs wrote: > >>> finally, a request: could you please add postal_code > >>> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:postal_code) as a synonym > >>> for addr:postcode, so i can debug these areas in the UK? it'd be a > >>> pain to go back and change them all :-) > >> > >> I hesitate to support two tags for the same thing. And there are many > >> more addr:postcode tags than postal_code. Has this been discussed > >> somewhere already? > > > > as far as i can tell, the postal_code tag has been used for about a > > year and a half longer than addr:postcode, although i can't find much > > mention of it on the mailing list / wiki besides these: > > > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2006-March/000823.html > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2007-March/001931.html > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Key:place&oldid=5338 > > > > it probably should be discussed. i guess the alternatives are are: > > > > 1) we choose one and start highlighting the other in openstreetbugs / > > maplint > > 2) we choose to use both, and tools must be adapted. > > > > It's used fairly extensively in the UK.
Ok, it seems to be mostly a UK thing, but also used in other places. In norther Spain there is a whole area where it is used, but in a different way: polygons with the postcode instead of roads like in the UK. I have added a new layer to the OSM inspector showing ways tagged with postal_code. If you zoom in far enough they are labelled. Nothing as cool as your rendering, though. :-) Using the Voronoi stuff to get the postcode areas seems to work really well once there is a decent amount of data available. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
