[Tagging] New tag for major recipient postcodes
marc marc
marc_marc_irc at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 18 16:43:18 UTC 2017
Hello,
In stead of creating an additional tag and thus an additional country
specific rule,
why not using addr:full (or in the contact namespace if some prefer) to
put this special addr that doesn't follow the standard country rule ?
Regards,
Marc
Le 17. 12. 17 à 22:25, Rainer a écrit :
> They are used together with addr:city. The combination aoff
> addr:postcode_major_recipient and addr:city acts as an alias for
> addr:postcode & addr:city & addr:street & addr:housenumber.
>
>
> Am 17.12.2017 21:22, schrieb Warin:
>> As they are not related to a physical address then why use the address
>> space?
>> Possibly the contact space? contact:mail:postcode=*
>>
>> -----------------
>> 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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