[Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

[Jez Nicholson]

IMHO OSM addresses are physical, 'locational' addresses and it is the
anomalous postal addresses that need to have their own scheme....if at all.

On Wed, 13 Sep 2023, 17:33 Philip Barnes, <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On 12 September 2023 10:28:11 CEST, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >On 12/9/23 03:57, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >> The fundamental issue is that there are postal addresses and what might
> >> be called "civil addresses" or "physical addresses" ('locational' I
> >> understand but is not normal English usage).
> >I could not think of a better descriptive 'word' for what I wanted to
> express.
> >>   In the US, we also have
> >> "911 dispatchable location" which is all about getting there physically
> >> and is US-bureaucatic-speak.
> >>
> >> OSM has decided to tag postal addresses on address points.   I find this
> >> an odd choice, and I think it really doesn't mean this, as companies
> >> that use PO boxes are not tagged that way, but with the street address.
> >>
> >> The only fix I think of is to have a separate set of tags paddr: and a
> >> rule that those should be set if they are different from the addr: tags
> >> (which are postal).  except postcode, which is a postal-only.
> >
> >
> >Err the zip/postcode in the UK is a (small) physical area. It is used by
> truck delivery drivers to enter into their GPS to find a route to the
> delivery point. See
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom
> >
> >Possibly the OSM addr thinking is based on the UK where the postal
> address is the physical location?There maybe exceptions to this in the UK
> too?
> >
> The company I work for has a PO box meaning the postcode is not the actual
> location.
>
> Visitors often arrive having put the postcode into their satnav and have
> had a detour via the Royal Mail sorting office several miles away.
>
> Putting the company name into an  OSM based router will take you straight
> there.
>
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