[Talk-GB] Non-intuitive addresses

[Colin Smale]

> On 02/12/2022 9:50 PM Andrew Black <andrew at black1.org.uk> wrote:
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> On 12/02/2022 14:40, Colin Smale wrote:
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> > https://www.mail-archive.com/talk-gb@openstreetmap.org/msg20202.html
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> > Don't forget there is reasonably broad agreement that OSM uses *postal addresses* in cases where they conflict with addresses to locate or identify a premises. When addressing a letter to Abbots Walk, Royal Mail say you can omit the main street name if you are pushed for space.
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> But ... Most people don't want to send a letter to the place. They want their parcels/ pizza ... to come to the right place.  So if 4 Melbourne Terrace, Melbourne Grove is different from 4 Melbourne Grove you will end up with a cold pizza. See https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/62223038 and nearby.
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Absolutely right. Hence the rule-of-thumb that you could/should omit "Melbourne Grove" if you only have room for one "street" in your database or on your label.

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> Hope this doesn't come across as shooting the messenger.  Addresses inc postcodes are being used for a purpose they weren't intended for.  I live in house 20A which in some databases is "Flat A, 20".  I get parcels for 20 and they get ours.
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Well, these days most uses (apart from Royal Mail) will go through lat/lon. You give the Pizza place your address, and it gets looked up and translated to coordinates. Then the router will plot a route to those coordinates, and the sat nav will reverse-engineer that route into turn instructions. If the lookup (probably using the PAF) doesn't return an exact match, people might start making assumptions...

Have you checked what RM thinks your official postal address is? If post using that address is misdelivered, you should complain. Are the letterboxes clearly marked? 
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