[Talk-GB] UK suburbs

Michael Booth boothym at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 20:05:29 UTC 2016


addr:locality could cause confusion in OSM because place=locality is a 
named place with no population?

I live in a post town so things are straightforward, but I've never been 
entirely sure how to tag addresses in the village and town either side 
of me.  For example the Royal Mail address:

xx street
village/town
post town
post code

I decided just to ignore the post town and use this format for OSM.

addr:housenumber addr:street
addr:city

addr:postcode

Am I doing it wrong? Maybe this is a question for the tagging list...

On 06/10/2016 19:10, Colin Smale wrote:
>
> Royal Mail would agree with the residents. The postcode finder returns:
>
> Lloyds Pharmacy
> 2-4 West Street
> Rottingdean
> BRIGHTON
> BN2 7HP
>
> What do you mean with "it is technically..."?
>
> The current OSM tagging for addresses doesn't cater very well with the 
> UK address model, which can get really messy in extreme situations.
>
> I would probably use addr:city=Brighton, addr:locality=Rottingdean. 
> According to this page it would be a "dependent locality":
>
> http://support.qas.com/all_you_need_to_know_about_uk_address_elements_1478.htm
>
> //colin
>
> On 2016-10-06 18:48, Jez Nicholson wrote:
>
>> I was just looking at the address for Lloyds Pharmacy in Rottingdean 
>> whilst adding the fhrs:id. It is technically "2-4 West St, Brighton, 
>> BN2 7HP". There is a West Street in the centre of Brighton, so 
>> residents would probably put "2-4 West St, Rottingdean, Brighton, BN2 
>> 7HP"
>>
>> Seems like a silly question, but which tag do we commonly use in the 
>> UK for suburbs? addr:place?
>> Regards,
>>               Jez
>>
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