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<p>On 2020-12-20 14:13, ipswichmapper--- via Talk-GB wrote:</p>
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<div>Marking city, town etc is not necessary in UK because Geocoders like nominatim can figure those out using afministrative boundaries.</div>
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<div>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".</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>What is important is the housenumber and street:</div>
<div>"addr:housenumber=99</div>
<div>addr:street= Postal Street"</div>
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<div>And postcode:</div>
<div>"addr:postcode=XY9 7GY"</div>
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<div>Note, all postcodes are available freely:</div>
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<div>IpswichMapper</div>
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<div>20 Dec 2020, 12:45 by Dave.Abbott@pandaemonia.org:</div>
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>I am trying to make sure I tag addresses correctly. I am currently trying to understand how to map in my area.</div>
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<div>The postal addresses are like:</div>
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<div>99 Postal Street</div>
<div>Smalltown</div>
<div>Largertown</div>
<div>West Yorks XY9 7GY</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Currently tagging as -</div>
<div>addr:housenumber=99</div>
<div>addr:street=Postal Street</div>
<div>addr:city=Smalltown, Largertown</div>
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<div>But I am pretty sure this is wrong.</div>
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<div>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 -</div>
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<div>addr:housenumber=99</div>
<div>addr:street=Postal Street</div>
<div>addr:town=Smalltown</div>
<div>addr:city=Largertown</div>
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<div>Hoping someone can advise me as to the correct way to tag for the UK...</div>
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<div>Dave Abbott (OSM user DaveyPorcy)</div>
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