[Tagging] Postal verses locational addresses

[Warin]

On 14/9/23 04:50, Marc_marc wrote:
> Le 13.09.23 à 19:21, Jez Nicholson a écrit :
>> OSM addresses are physical, 'locational' addresses
>
> ok
>
>> it is the anomalous postal addresses that need to have their own 
>> scheme....if at all.
>
> some mapper in France are using contact:* for that (and also
> some contact:addr for a kind of number+street and sometime CP+city)
>
> note that no (including fr) app is known for using that
> and due the fact that some mappers also put physical/locational 
> addresses into contact:*, you can't know what this info represents 
> without having the other addr:* object with the same address
> to compare the distance between the 2


Comparing the difference between the two and it still may not be 
determined.


Perhaps

contact:postal:street=* etc. could do the job and be reasonably obvious? 
Yes there would need to be a good wiki page to say that these are 
postal/delivery addresses rather than the physical location of the 
feature, and then changes to the addr: wiki pages ... The changes to 
addr pages I see as clarification of the usual practice and normal 
circumstance. He use of contact:postal:*=* would only be for the 
exceptions?