[Tagging] addr

[Alan Mintz]

At 2012-05-08 07:02, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
>But in the US the administrative municipality for an address may be 
>different than the city that is used for mailing to that address, which is 
>regulated by the US Post Office (and I think tied to zip code).

To get back to the original question, I believe the addr: tags should be 
used for mailing addresses. At least that's what seems to be their usage 
when the target of an import. Physical location can be determined by the 
surrounding boundary ways.

So, for:

N Somewhere Street
Foo
Bar
Code

I think you can use either:

addr:housenumber=N
addr:street=Somewhere Street
addr:city=Foo, Bar
addr:postcode=Code


or define and use an addr:baz tag where baz is the name of that type of 
subdivision:

addr:housenumber=N
addr:street=Somewhere Street
addr:baz=Foo
addr:city=Bar
addr:postcode=Code

I would only do the latter if this additional subdivision is regularly used 
in addresses.

In the US, we have a first-level subdivision in addr:state, addr:city is 
second-level, and there is no third-level specified in an address.

--
Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>