[Talk-GB] Envelopes map

[Mark Goodge]

On 19/01/2022 15:32, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> Nice Overpass query Andrew. In addition I get a few 
> building=apartments + name=FooBar which I would normally class as 
> okay....or do people use building=apartments + addr:housename=FooBar ?
> 
> I notice that many mappers leave addr:city blank. I assume because they 
> expect addresses to extrapolate it from the city boundaries + it saves 
> space on the OSM databases? What do people think, should it be filled in 
> for all addresses?

If addr:city means, in UK parlance, the post town, then yes, it needs to 
be completed for all addresses as the post town isn't a geographic or 
administrative object and therefore cannot be inferred from points and 
polygons.

I suspect that one of the reasons many mappers aren't adding addr:city 
is because they think it means the geographic or administrative city 
rather than the post town, and therefore isn't applicable if the object 
they are editing isn't located in a city. But that's a different debate...

Mark