[Talk-in] What are the Guidelines for mapping address information in India?

[Arun Ganesh]

We should also accept that there's going to be some limitations with
capturing addresses properly in India. My address while living in the
village was of the format:

Mrs ABC, w/o late XYZ  [w/o= wife of]
Village,
District,
State Pincode

It will be quite the day when there is a geocoder capable of searching for
such addresses :)




On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 11:53 AM Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This is what i would propose based on
> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=addr
>
> addr:housename=Vikram Building CHS Ltd (Name of the Building)
> addr:neighbourhood=Bali Bajar (Sub Locality in Indian parlance)
> addr:suburb=Kurla W (Locality in Indian parlance)
>
> Landmarks are an interesting concept since its very subjective. Different
> people might use different landmarks for the exact same address. While its
> totally ok to invent a separate addr:landmark field to have this, not
> feeling very convinced it would be practically useful for a geocoder for
> searching. Its probably more useful while printing out the address so it
> can be used on the ground and for that having it in addr:full seems
> sufficient.
>
>
>
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