[OSM-talk] Post code areas

[Brian Quinion]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:16 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 April 2010 02:13, Brian Quinion <openstreetmap at brian.quinion.co.uk> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I meant about street/town/city/county... since some postcodes are half
> a state in size... but never smaller than a suburb...

Well, yes.  But full UK postcodes can cover either all, or part of a
street, or a single building - I'd still naturally call them a street
level postcode (as opposed to a building or suburb level).

I'd assume that the preferred usage would be defined per country in
the same way that admin_level and road to highway types are.

--
 Brian