[Talk-GB] OSM UK address project: tags

[Colin Smale]

> On 12/21/2021 10:14 PM Dave F via Talk-GB <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> General comment: OSM shouldn't become beholden to Royal Mail. They are just one of many delivery services.
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But Royal Mail has an effective monopoly on addressing (the only "competitors" I can think of are things like W3W and Google's Plus codes and they are very "niche"). All the delivery services use Royal Mail's addressing system.

What's so bad about adopting the RM model? Given the huge levels of "tradition" in UK addressing (particularly in rural areas) they had a big challenge to come up with a data model that would accommodate all the quirks while providing an efficient way of uniquely identifying a delivery point for post. We are not going to a better job than they have done. Are we just being stubborn?
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