[talk-au] Postal addresses

[Sebastian S.]

In other parts of the world house name or landmarks are used for navigation. I like that although uncommon nowadays. I think landmarks are particularly important for walking routing.
I have tagged names of large Appartement Blocks If the name is prominently displayed outside. For that I have used name=

On 19 March 2020 9:39:52 pm AEDT, Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I sometimes tag house names if they are known. I don't think the wiki
>implies that you should not add house name if you add house number, but
>I
>agree it's not generally useful in terms of delivering mail in
>Australia.
>
> - Ben.
>
>On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 at 17:08, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>>  2 things on addresses.
>>
>>  Firstly house names.
>>
>> While these exist they are seldom required for postal addresses so
>the should not be placed into addr:housename=* but rather into name=*.
>>
>> The wiki specifically implies if there is a addr:housenumber there
>should be no addr:housename.
>> See
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr#Commonly_used_subkeys
>>
>>  Secondly remote addresses - Roadside Mail Box/Bag, Roadside Mail
>Service, Private Bag etc.
>>
>> These are hard to find out how to map them on the wiki, I think they
>need to go into the Australian Tagging guidelines.
>>
>> The answer is the same for PO boxes - use addr:full=*
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
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>
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