As these postcodes are kind of a virtual address that is not tied to a particular pysical location,
my opinion would be _not to add them to OSM_, which is a geo database and not primarily a post code
reference database.
Typically for those companies in DE, there is an additional physical address which has a different
postcode for the street address, which is regularly tagged on the physical location.
tom
On 17.12.2017 13:42, Rainer wrote:
Hi all,
recently I came across postal codes in POI addresses, which aren't the classic scheme addr:postcode
& addr:city & addr:street & addr:housenumber. However it is a special postcode that is assigned to
recipients that receive a big amount of post every day, typically big companies or authorities. This
kind of postcode is used only together with addr:city and does not require street and housenumber.
So to say the post company has a big sack for post to that special postcode, puts in all the letters
that are addressed to it and delivers the sack to the recipient.
After some discussion in the german user forum
https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=60421 I want to propose a tag for this kind of
postcode and would like to discuss it here in the tagging mailing list.
The proposal is: addr:postcode_major_recipient
It should be used on POIs, because it is an attribute of the company, authority or whatever, but not
as an address of a building, because it is not assigned to such directly. Target is to have a
separate tag for this kind of postcode to avoid a mix-up with the normal addr:postcode.
As I am not a native British English speaker, I have asked one and consulted the english page of the
Deutsche Post. Reference: https://www.postdirekt.de/plzserver/PlzSearchServlet?lang=en_GB -> goto
More -> Find major recipient
Probably similar kinds of postcodes exist also in other post companies in other countries, so inputs
about that are welcome.
Best regards,
Rainer
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