[Tagging] New tag for major recipient postcodes

[Adam Snape]

Hi,

The British terminology for this is a 'non-geographic postcode'. I suggest
that this terminology might make a more appropriate general tag because
a) The purpose of the tag to indicate the non-geographic nature of the
postcode, not the volume of post the address recieves
and
b) Special postcodes may be allocated for reasons other than sheer volume
of mail.

Kind regards,

Adam

On 17 December 2017 at 12:42, Rainer <r.elbing at gmx.de> 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
>
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