[Tagging] New tag for major recipient postcodes

[Simon Poole]

Am 17.12.2017 um 21:22 schrieb Warin:
> As they are not related to a physical address then why use the address
> space?
The addr tag space is for postal addresses, that are not guaranteed to
be physical at all (for example addr:city is the postal city, which
might be completely un-surveyable).

That is not really a problem, the problem is more that we don't have a
scheme for non-postal addresses.

Simon

> 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.
>
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> 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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