In the UK we have postal addresses which are for Royal Mail's convenience, not yours. Often your (correct) postal address suggests you are in a different town, and sometimes even a different country.
What would you call the geographic address for NP16 7JU? The postal address is Chepstow. It's not even in Wales. > On 27 May 2015 at 08:07, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> Martin et al., >> >> It might help to have some kind of paradigm here as I think our frames >> of >> reference may be divergent. If we don't have consensus about the >> "question" >> we will never agree about the "answer" except by coincidence, and that >> would be the worst situation of all. >> >> What are the use cases for an "address"? Is it as a routing target? A >> "label" or "annotation" for a building? or a "property" in a looser >> sense? >> Is it for the benefit of the postman? Or what? >> >> //colin >> >> >> > In the UK we have postal addresses and geographic addresses. In the main > they're the same but where there isn't a postal address, there's only the > geographic address. There are cases where the postal address and > geographic > address are different - such as PO Box numbers where a firm at one address > has their post delivered to another address. > > Address: geographic/routing (A description for finding a 'place' - a > (geographic) location; the next 8 bits, a web page etc. > Address: postal post delivery. > > > -- > Mike. > @millomweb <https://sites.google.com/site/millomweb/index/introduction> - > For all your info on Millom and South Copeland > via *the area's premier website - * > > *currently unavailable due to ongoing harassment of me, my family, > property > & pets* > > T&Cs <https://sites.google.com/site/pmailkeey/e-mail> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
