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

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 03:39:08 UTC 2017


Both addr:postal and contact:postal have a little use according to 
taginfo. Neither have a wiki page to explain their use.

Given the use of the key contact: I would prefer contact:postal and 
document its use on the OSM wiki.

If you want more input/ideas then contact the tagging group?

On 10-Oct-17 01:37 PM, David Dean wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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