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On 12/21/2021 10:14 PM Dave F via Talk-GB <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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<br>General comment: OSM shouldn't become beholden to Royal Mail. They are just one of many delivery services.
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But Royal Mail has an effective monopoly on addressing (the only "competitors" I can think of are things like W3W and Google's Plus codes and they are very "niche"). All the delivery services use Royal Mail's addressing system.
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What's so bad about adopting the RM model? Given the huge levels of "tradition" in UK addressing (particularly in rural areas) they had a big challenge to come up with a data model that would accommodate all the quirks while providing an efficient way of uniquely identifying a delivery point for post. We are not going to a better job than they have done. Are we just being stubborn?
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