[Talk-GB] OSM UK address project: tags

[Simon Poole]

Am 23.12.2021 um 13:41 schrieb Dave F:
> On 22/12/2021 12:31, Simon Poole wrote:
>>
>> The definition of addr:city -is- "The name of the city as given in 
>> postal addresses of the building/area." straight from the wikis 
>> mouth, aka the postal town or whatever the equivalent is.
>
> See? This is the problem of 'beholden' I'm talking about.
> The address should be a 'man on the Clapham omnibus' format - When you 
> ask a college for their address so you can send them a Christmas card, 
> they give the city they live in, not where the nearest sorting office is.
>
The last couple of 100 times I've asked somebody for their address they 
have given me their official postal address and not an informal 
indication of where they live (and if you asked me, I would do exactly 
the same, regardless of  how annoying it is that the place I live in 
doesn't turn up in a our mail address).
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