Thank you everyone for your attentive answers.
From your information and some detailed testing, I think that for
Brazil it is best to use boundary=postal_code for the vast majority of
municipalities with small population, with addr:postcode for a few
elements with exceptional postal codes. It also
Likewise, not everywhere in America has a postal zipcode, but the Census
invented ones for their own purposes.
On Mar 9, 2018 16:13, "Kevin Kenny" wrote:
> Oops, sent an earlier attempt from the wrong place:
>
> TIGER:zip_left and zip_right were intended to be ZIP codes, because
> they were ther
Oops, sent an earlier attempt from the wrong place:
TIGER:zip_left and zip_right were intended to be ZIP codes, because
they were there to help census workers find the houses who hadn't
returned census forms (which were sent out to postal addresses).
They were never entirely correct, though, and w
In the Netherlands having the same postal code on both sides of the
streets is a great exception. We always put all address information on
the individual address.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 9:08 PM, Fernando Trebien
wrote:
> In Brazil some streets have a different postal code on each side.
> There se
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 8:08 PM, Fernando Trebien wrote:
> In Brazil some streets have a different postal code on each side.
> There seems to be no officially defined tag to represent this on ways.
> Nominatim supports [1] US TIGER tags tiger:zip_left and
> tiger:zip_right, even though those could
Le 09. 03. 18 à 21:08, Fernando Trebien a écrit :
> In Brazil some streets have a different postal code on each side.
the same happend in a lot of country.
in Belgium, they create postal_code boundary but Nominatim don't use
the location of the house, it use the location of the street witch is of
That is quite a common thing. I tag the buildings, or addressed nodes,
with the appropriate postcode. So building one side will have one
postcode and on the other side they will have a different postcode.
The postman doesn't deliver mail to the street and large users will
have their own postcode.
On Mar 9, 2018 14:10, "Fernando Trebien" wrote:
In Brazil some streets have a different postal code on each side.
There seems to be no officially defined tag to represent this on ways.
Nominatim supports [1] US TIGER tags tiger:zip_left and
tiger:zip_right, even though those could be replaced wit
