[Tagging] Different postal codes in each side of the street

[Paul Johnson]

Likewise, not everywhere in America has a postal zipcode, but the Census
invented ones for their own purposes.

On Mar 9, 2018 16:13, "Kevin Kenny" <kevin.b.kenny+osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oops, sent an earlier attempt from the wrong place:
>
> TIGER:zip_left and zip_right were intended to be ZIP codes, because
> they were there to help census workers find the houses who hadn't
> returned census forms (which were sent out to postal addresses).
> They were never entirely correct, though, and were based on an
> incorrect mental model of "ZIP code as an area feature" rather than
> "a set of discrete points where the truck delivers the mail". So
> the whole idea was pretty screwy right from the start. (For instance,
> my workplace has a unique five-digit ZIP code. When I started
> here back in the day, it didn't have a building number, because
> it was the only address in its ZIP code. Eventually the fire
> brigade insisted that it have one, and it acquired a vanity
> address: One Research Circle.)
>
> When I'm entering a building address, I fill in number and street,
> city, state and ZIP code - the entire tuple. I see very little value
> to tiger:zip at this point.
>
> If I'm moving down a street, entering address after address, JOSM
> does handle things quite conveniently, with most of the fields
> pre-filled. (I wish it had a custom increment value. A lot of the
> streets in my community have building numbers that increment
> by 4 instead of 1 or 2, so that there's a little room for expansion
> if someone subdivides a building lot.)
>
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