Postcodes don't have addresses, but addresses can have postcodes. I say "can have" and not "have" as addresses can exist without postcodes, for example when the local authority has named the roads in a new estate but the postcodes have not been allocated yet. You need to be able to talk about addresses with the utility companies so they can connect all the wires and pipes correctly and set up their backoffice systems for the new customers. The postcode is often not known at that stage.
Only Royal Mail think Chepstow is in Gloucestershire, England. Normal people think it is in Monmouthshire, Wales. This is the correct postal address: 1 Bigstone Meadow Tutshill CHEPSTOW NP16 7JU (by the way, I picked this address arbitrarily from the internet. I have friends in Tutshill (which is why I am aware of all the gory details here) but not at this address) On 2015-05-29 02:26, pmailkeey . wrote: > On 28 May 2015 at 07:32, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> 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. > > Postcodes don't have addresses! > > Where Google points, given that postcode, for a geographic address > > Bigstone Meadow > Tutshill > Nr Chepstow > Gloucestershire > England > > -- > > Mike. > > @millomweb [1] - 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 [2] > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging [3] Links: ------ [1] https://sites.google.com/site/millomweb/index/introduction [2] https://sites.google.com/site/pmailkeey/e-mail [3] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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