[talk-au] Tag physical business location with their PO Box number

[David Dean]

nwastra, Great question!

I'm not sure about the best answer though, as it doesn't seem to be an
issue that has come up before on the wiki or on
http://help.openstreetmap.org.

I would suggest you have two options:

1) Ask on http://help.openstreetmap.org, and see if you get anything
useful. It would be a great question to ask, as I'm sure other people come
across similar circumstances, and getting an answer somewhere public would
be good.
2) Make up a tag so that the information is in the database, and if someone
comes up with a better tagging scheme, they can change it later.
3) Do both.

For (2), I reckon contact:postal='PO Box 2323, Blahtown' would make sense
in the context of the other contact:* tags. According to
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/contact%3Apostal, it's been used at
least 175 times before, although maybe not quite in that way.

- David

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 at 11:48 nwastra <nwastra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> In addition to the tags like contact:phone contact:email addr:housenumber
> addr:street, etc almost all businesses in Australia that have a physical
> presence on the ground also have PO Box number as part of their address and
> use that for their business correspondence.
> Is contact:pobox=* the correct way to tag their PO Box number?
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