[Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

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On Sun, 2023-09-10 at 19:09 +1000, Warin wrote:
> HI,
> 
> I am coming across cases of OSM entered addresses on buildings that
> are 
> some kilometers from the nominated address location. These appear to
> be 
> 'gated communities', 'retirement villages' and possibly other things 
> that use some official address and thus keep deliveries from going to
> the actual location but going through the office.
> 
> I can probably lump all of a group together in some kind of relation 
> (e.g. landuse) that would reduce the warnings down from many to one.
> But 
> I wonder if these postal addresses would be better entered in some
> other 
> way. One issue is a routers to some address having more than one
> result 
> - all with the same address..
> 
> Ideas?

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal:Provides_feature
Could fit the bill