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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/12/2020 14:57, Colin Smale wrote:<br>
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<p>On 2020-12-20 15:41, Chris Hill wrote:</p>
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monospace">Addresses in OSM are not the same as Royal Mail's
addresses. RM addresses are all about their processes for
delivering post to delivery points. The postal town
(Largertown in your example) is a convenience for RM that we
have all been persuaded is useful, but RM have ceased to use
postal towns for many years!</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family:
monospace">Are you not thinking of Postal Counties? They were
indeed deprecated many years ago (1996), but the Post Town is
AFAIK a mandatory component of a postal address, and Wikipedia
agrees: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_town"
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<p>No, Counties are still useful. The only reason RM no longer uses
counties is that they depend on postcodes and street addresses to
deliver. We are not confined to delivering using RM's
infrastructure. Near to York there is a village called Dunnington,
near to Hull there is another small village called Dunnington.
Without postcodes the county is vital to reach the right place.</p>
<p>Long after RM say they no longer used counties, their PAF list,
used across Britain to find addresses in the absence of a proper,
Open address database,still has counties in it. People still quote
my address as being in North Humberside. North Humberside never
existed, Humberside was abolished in 1996! SO it is with postal
towns, RM no longer use them but they still appear in their PAF
and so get perpetuated in general use, even though they are
useless and misleading.<br>
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<p>Royal mail do not use postal towns and neither should OSM.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">cheers
Chris Hill (chillly)</pre>
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