[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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