[OSM-talk] To the author of the AddrInterpolation JOSM plugin

[john at jfeldredge.com]

In the USA, while most streets are within a single Zip Code (postal code), it is common for streets at the boundaries of such codes to extend across the boundary line, and thus have more than one postal code.  The street that I live on changes both city name and postal code at the boundary, but not street name.

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Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] To the author of the AddrInterpolation JOSM plugin
From  :mailto:winfixit at gmail.com
Date  :Sun Mar 20 11:45:16 America/Chicago 2011


This is probably not desired behaviour in The Netherlands (since the postcode can change even within a street), but it is valid in most of the rest of the world.

Jo


2011/3/20 Floris Looijesteijn <osm at floris.nu <mailto:osm at floris.nu> >
 I can't find who wrote this, so I hope the author reads this list.
 
 Since a while now this plugin copies and remembers postcode from selected nodes
 and assigns the same values to all your work.
 
 This is obviously wrong but easily overlooked. Since it's already
 mentioned on the
 wiki page of the plugin I wonder why this behaviour is still present.
 
 In my eyes this invalidates a lot of postcode data in OSM and it
 should be made top priority.
 
 Greetings,
 Floris Looijesteijn
 
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