[Tagging] New tag for major recipient postcodes

[Tom Pfeifer]

As these postcodes are kind of a virtual address that is not tied to a particular pysical location, 
my opinion would be _not to add them to OSM_, which is a geo database and not primarily a post code 
reference database.

Typically for those companies in DE, there is an additional physical address which has a different 
postcode for the street address, which is regularly tagged on the physical location.

tom

On 17.12.2017 13:42, Rainer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> recently I came across postal codes in POI addresses, which aren't the classic scheme addr:postcode 
> & addr:city & addr:street & addr:housenumber. However it is a special postcode that is assigned to 
> recipients that receive a big amount of post every day, typically big companies or authorities. This 
> kind of postcode is used only together with addr:city and does not require street and housenumber. 
> So to say the post company has a big sack for post to that special postcode, puts in all the letters 
> that are addressed to it and delivers the sack to the recipient.
> After some discussion in the german user forum 
> https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=60421 I want to propose a tag for this kind of 
> postcode and would like to discuss it here in the tagging mailing list.
> 
> The proposal is:  addr:postcode_major_recipient
> 
> It should be used on POIs, because it is an attribute of the company, authority or whatever, but not 
> as an address of a building, because it is not assigned to such directly. Target is to have a 
> separate tag for this kind of postcode to avoid a mix-up with the normal addr:postcode.
> 
> As I am not a native British English speaker, I have asked one and consulted the english page of the 
> Deutsche Post. Reference: https://www.postdirekt.de/plzserver/PlzSearchServlet?lang=en_GB -> goto 
> More -> Find major recipient
> 
> Probably similar kinds of postcodes exist also in other post companies in other countries, so inputs 
> about that are welcome.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Rainer