[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - addr:territory

[Willi]

OSM user [mailto:osm at fizik.spb.ru] wrote on 25. July 2011 06:47

> Hello!
> Please, look at
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/addr:territory .
> I suppose to use this tag for addresses, which doesn't contain name of
> some street (for example, there are no street in some villages, there
> are addresses "<name of territory>, <number of house>").
>    User Dinamik

Why not use addr:province, addr:district and subdistrict? 
They provide a hierarchy of areas below country level using well established
terms: 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr.

The term "territory" is rather unspecific:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory

Willi