[Talk-GB] OSM UK address project: tags

[Simon Poole]

Am 22.12.2021 um 15:57 schrieb Mark Goodge:
> ...
> place=city doesn't belong in the tags for a specific node or way (eg, 
> a house or other building, though). That's a tag applied to the 
> settlement itself.
>
After I've already pointed out multiple times that the "city" in 
addr:city has nothing to do with the "city" in place=city I somehow 
suspect you are just trolling, but as a last try:

the addr Tags are part of a hierarchical tagging scheme, assigning them 
semantics outside of their place in the hierarchy and their definition 
in the wiki is nonsense (I suspect that historically the tag names were 
derived from your typical preprinted address label but that just doesn't 
matter). If it makes you feel more comfortable  I'll start a proposal to 
rename addr:city to 
addr:this_is_whatever_you_locally_use_for_postal_town, but that would be 
silly because it wouldn't change the semantics.

As Tom has pointed out there are differences between postal addresses 
and informal addresses that we don't really capture well in OSM if you 
don't have a full complement of administrative boundaries and potential 
place areas for non-admin localities, but at least addr:housenumber / 
addr:housename and addr:street / addr:place are useful to gather in any 
case. It would however be a good idea to be clear on -what- the UK 
community is intending to collect.

Now the two streets in an address problem is something that might 
actually justify an extra addr tag contrary to the addr:town etc 
nonsense, I would simply suggest to make it as generic as possible (not 
that we have to endure another round of mistaken identity discussions).


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