<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /></head><body style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">We certainly don't need the phoney, contrived postal town. That is purely a Royal Mail invention that serves no useful purpose for anyone else. RM is just one user of addressing amongst many.<br>
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Addressing is not created by Royal Mail, it is maintained by local authorities. We should start there.<br>
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Cheers, Chris (chillly)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 June 2016 16:50:37 BST, Colin Smale <colin.smale@xs4all.nl> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am wondering if there is any consensus about tagging for addresses in the UK. I couldn't find any trace of a discussion, nor anything on the wiki, but I may have missed something. In particular I am wondering about locality vs. post town - one of these should probably go in addr:city, but which one, and how do we tag the other one?</p>
<p>The address model used by Royal Mail is rather complex when compared to some of the straightforward systems in mainland European countries, which mostly manage with {number,street,postcode,town}. In the UK we need something like {[buildingname,](number|name),street,[dependent-street,][locality,]post-town,postcode} for a full address (actually it appears even more complex than that, if you refer to [1]).</p>
<p>Is anyone aware of a reference for how to map address fields to OSM tags?</p>
<p>--colin</p>
<p>[1] http://www.upu.int/fileadmin/documentsFiles/activities/addressingUnit/gbrEn.pdf</p>
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