[talk-au] Postal addresses

[Warin]

On 20/3/20 6:58 am, Sebastian S. wrote:
> 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=


Station/homestead names are usefull for navigation in the remoter 
regions of Australia.

>
> 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
>     <mailto: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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