[Talk-GB] OSM UK address project: tags

[Colin Smale]

I expect that just about everyone would know their correct postal address and would be able to give an appropriate answer to the question. "Where do I send a Christmas card" is not the same question as "where do you live" or "how do I get to your house".


On 23 December 2021 13:41:33 CET, Dave F via Talk-GB <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>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.
>
>Whether one delivery service wishes to internal interpret it differently 
>is up to them. It is of no concern to OSM.
>
>Other delivery services will have different distribution locations.
>
>DaveF.
>
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