[Talk-us] Nominatim in CDP

[John F. Eldredge]

Yes, but one "postal city" commonly contains multiple "postal codes", so storing the postal city in the postal code tag represents a loss of detail.


On J,une 26, 2014 2:33:12 PM CDT, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
> On 6/26/14 3:20 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote:
> > Postal code usually means Zip code, or its non-USA equivalent, not
> city.
> this is one of those fussy points in US geocoding.
> 
> the zip code can be mapped to the postal "city", which is what is
> in everyone's addresses, and is what i think most us residents
> initially expect when typing an address into a search box.
> 
> the underlying point being that there isn't one true geocoder,
> it depends entirely on what you're trying to accomplish. something
> driven by postal codes/addresses can be correct for many
> applications, while being wrong for others.
> 
> to my mind the fact that we keep going in circles about this
> is evidence that we're thinking about the problem the wrong way.
> 
> richard

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