[Imports] Queens, NYC addresses

[Greg Troxel]

Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> writes:

> As I understand it, addr:suburb and addr:neighbourhood are for an
> address format that has a slot for the suburb or neighborhood
> name. But in the U.S., the standard address format has only a slot for
> the "postal city" -- typically, the name of the post office that
> serves the address, which is not necessarily a city.

That's my understanding too.   But in addition to "USPS addresses",
there are other kinds of addresses, which may or may not be the same as
USPS or eaceh other.

  a) Civil addresses, that is your legal address when registering to vote,
  taxes, jury duty, etc.

  b) E911 addresses.

  c) Addresses shown on plans at the registry of deeds, or equivalent, when
  shown.

(c) is not so common around me, and I think a and b match.  In MA, they
mostly match postal addresses, except that in a few city/towns there are
neighborhood names used as addr:city (Boston, Newton, and especially
Barnstable, to the point non-map-nerds don't know that Barnstable is a
town).

I don't really understand why in OSM addr: thinks the USPS address is
the most important thing and the civil addresses are more or less
ignored.  Perhaps the civil city can be inferred from admin_level 8, and
the #/street are ~alwalys the same.
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