[Talk-GB] UK street addressing

[ipswichmapper at tutanota.com]

It's not just administrative boundaries. If you mark points with "place=suburb", "place=town" etc. that will also be used.

In this case it is clearly difficult to tell which tags to use, so I would just not use them and let nominatim figure out. Unless someone else a clearer solution, that is.

IpswichMapper

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20 Dec 2020, 13:29 by colin.smale at xs4all.nl:

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> On 2020-12-20 14:13, ipswichmapper--- via Talk-GB wrote:
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>> Marking city, town etc is not necessary in UK because Geocoders like nominatim can figure those out using afministrative boundaries.
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> Postal addresses have no relation to administrative boundaries. They are simply "what you need to put on an envelope so Royal Mail can put it through the right letter box".
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> Boundaries of "post town" areas are not in OSM, nor can they be considered "administrative". Post Towns, Dependent Localities and Double-Dependent Localities are not mapped (nor mappable) to Districts etc or Civil Parishes.
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>> What is important is the housenumber and street:
>> "addr:housenumber=99
>> addr:street= Postal Street"
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>> And postcode:
>> "addr:postcode=XY9 7GY"
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>> Note, all postcodes are available freely:
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>> https://raggedred.net/codepoint/
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>> IpswichMapper
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>> 20 Dec 2020, 12:45 by Dave.Abbott at pandaemonia.org:
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>>> Hi,
>>>  
>>> I am trying to make sure I tag addresses correctly. I am currently trying to understand how to map in my area.
>>>  
>>> The postal addresses are like:
>>>  
>>> 99 Postal Street
>>> Smalltown
>>> Largertown
>>> West Yorks XY9 7GY
>>>  
>>> Smalltown is geographically separate to Largertown, which however is the Postal Town. Omitting Smalltown from the address is probably correct postally-speaking, but local residents would object as Smalltown is seen as completely separate to other places under the same Postal Town.
>>>  
>>> Currently tagging as -
>>> addr:housenumber=99
>>> addr:street=Postal Street
>>> addr:city=Smalltown, Largertown
>>>  
>>> But I am pretty sure this is wrong.
>>>  
>>> There is a page at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Rjw62/UK_Address_Mapping which mentions "suggested tags" but there is no evidence that this is in use. If correct I would be tagging as -
>>>  
>>> addr:housenumber=99
>>> addr:street=Postal Street
>>> addr:town=Smalltown
>>> addr:city=Largertown
>>>  
>>> Hoping someone can advise me as to the correct way to tag for the UK...
>>>  
>>> Dave Abbott (OSM user DaveyPorcy)
>>>
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