[OSM-talk] Post code areas

[Brian Quinion]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:06 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 April 2010 01:51, Brian Quinion <openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk> wrote:
>> boundary=street_postal_code | district_postal_code | city_postal_code
>> street_postal_code = 425253
>>
>> or
>>
>> boundary = postal_code
>> postal_code = 425253
>> postal_code_level = street | town | city | county
>
> That doesn't make sense for Australian postcodes, check out the links
> I posted...

>From the wiki link you posted Australian postcodes are approx. suburb
level / admin_level 8
The data you are importing already includes an admin_level = 8 tag
which is exactly the same concept as the above.

--
 Brian