Neither block or sector are OSM places. I have used halmet/locality and suburb. by these, rendering is proper<br>if using the existing system could i propose addr:hamlet or addr:suburb support?<br>Also, rendering probably is fine.<br>
Its just how gazetteer/nominatim search algo that would require supporting alternate tags.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Vikas<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 January 2011 15:34, Gregory Arenius <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregory@arenius.com">gregory@arenius.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">It sounds like the current set of tags and structures in OSM don't properly support what you're trying to do at the moment. I think the best way to deal with it would to propose some new tags so that these type of addressing schemes can be properly supported in OSM with supporting documentation.<br>
<br>It sounds like you need some sort of block or sector tag you could set on areas to define them properly. A couple of other tags for addressing like addr:block and addr:sector could then be added.<br><br>It would definitely take some time before they get supported by the renderers and routers but I think that since a good sized chunk of the world uses these types of addressing systems we should have an explicit way to deal with them instead of trying to shoehorn them into a more European system. It will make it easier for mappers there to do things properly and probably also make things work more reliably.<br>
<br>I don't have the experience with this type addressing to feel comfortable doing any of that but if you put something up on the wiki people can use and work on it.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Greg<br><br><br>
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