[Tagging] New tag for major recipient postcodes

[Warin]

As they are not related to a physical address then why use the address 
space?
Possibly the contact space? contact:mail:postcode=*

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I believe 1800 numbers cannot be used internationally, so I don't use 
the ISD codes, that OSM requests, with these.



On 18-Dec-17 12:36 AM, José G Moya Y. wrote:
> Do you mean PO box? In some cities, massive PO boxes have a special 
> Zip code/ postal code. It could be a property of the PObox address.
>
> Maybe an attribute at the POI is right, as POI use to list email 
> addresses and web addresses, which are independent from actual 
> physical address (as PO boxes are), also.
>
> National-wide phone numbers treated (such as +1-800-x in USA, 
> cellphones, "vocal nomad" numbers (+34-51-xx in Spain, if I remember 
> well)  are unlinked to physical addresses too. Are they directions 
> about how to use it?
>
>
>
> El 17/12/2017 13:58, "Tom Pfeifer" <t.pfeifer at computer.org 
> <mailto:t.pfeifer at computer.org>> escribió:
>
>     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
>         <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
>         <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
>
>
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