[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 25, Issue 62

[Russ Phillips]

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 00:45 +0100, talk-request at openstreetmap.org wrote:
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:36:31 +0100
> From: "Andy Robinson" <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Addresses to OSM
> To: "'Thomas Walraet'"
> <thomas at walraet.com>,    <talk at openstreetmap.org>

> I think postal codes stopped the need to hold a lot of address data.
> Since
> we don?t have postal_codes then we may want to use historical address
> sources instead.

Well, OpenStreetMap might not have post codes itself, but I see no
reason why it, or applications using it's data, couldn't use Free the
Postcode data.

One other thing that seems to have been missed in this discussion - not
all addresses are numbers. Some houses have names instead. It's common
for such houses to have names and numbers, but there are streets where
the houses that only have names and no numbers. And just to make it
really complicated, when I was a postie, there was one street that used
numbers for part of it's length and names for the remainder.

Russ