<html><head></head><body>I expect that just about everyone would know their correct postal address and would be able to give an appropriate answer to the question. "Where do I send a Christmas card" is not the same question as "where do you live" or "how do I get to your house".<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 December 2021 13:41:33 CET, Dave F via Talk-GB <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">On 22/12/2021 12:31, Simon Poole wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> The definition of addr:city -is- "The name of the city as given in <br> postal addresses of the building/area." straight from the wikis mouth, <br> aka the postal town or whatever the equivalent is.<br></blockquote><br>See? This is the problem of 'beholden' I'm talking about.<br>The address should be a 'man on the Clapham omnibus' format - When you <br>ask a college for their address so you can send them a Christmas card, <br>they give the city they live in, not where the nearest sorting office is.<br><br>Whether one delivery service wishes to internal interpret it differently <br>is up to them. It is of no concern to OSM.<br><br>Other delivery services will have different distribution locations.<br><br>DaveF.<hr>Talk-GB mailing list<br>Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>