[Talk-GB] Amenity Editing

[Dave Stubbs]

2009/7/4 Jack Stringer <jack.ixion at googlemail.com>:
>> No need for relations.
>> Just tag each address with addr:postcode or postal_code and all is sorted.
>
> Tag it with addr:postcode as that seems to be the system for now.
>
>
>> And in case you haven't seen it:
>> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~random/postcodes/?layers=000FBT0F
>>
>> this is taken from those two tags as applied to nodes or ways.
>
> Seen it, and you can see there are errors in the map due to mistyped
> names or incorrect cords. We need to bring both the postcodes under
> one name then to a mass edit/check to see which are in incorrect
> areas. i.e. there is a EC in the Exeter area (EX).
>

Well, we need to fix the errors... whether there's one tag or two
isn't really an issue here in any way.

>
>> This really doesn't work. Postcodes are applied to addresses, not
>> streets. Just tag the address if you know it.
>> It's still quite useful to tag streets with the known prefix though --
>> I've done that a lot in London where the SW15 part is printed on most
>> street signs.
>
> I agree that postcodes are to the house not the the road. If you
> relate a house to a road it does allow for a navigation device to see
> where it needs to take you to get to the house. For now though I think
> having nodes for a building and putting in the addr info is the best
> way. This means that if in the future someone wants to do the houses
> to the schema suggested they can get all the information from the
> nodes, and then delete the extra data then. I know it making more work
> in the very long run but atm the idea of spending 2 weeks putting all
> the houses in correctly could put people off from entering the data.
>
> I think I someone needs to draw up a proposal to convert the postcode
> tag to the addr:postcode as duplication causes confusion for now.
>


postal_code was around for donkey's years before anybody really even
thought of addressing data. It's not doing any harm. Just leave it be.

Dave