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
<fernando.treb...@gmail.com> 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 with postal code
> boundary relations [2] in the future since they are areas [3]. It
> doesn't seem to make sense to recommend using them outside the US.
> Over here we could perhaps use a large number of postal code boundary
> relations, or painstakingly add a postal code to every address.
>
> What would you recommend in this situation? Perhaps we should adopt
> postal_code:[side] and ask Nominatim developers to support that?
>
> [1] 
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim/blob/master/utils/tigerAddressImport.py
> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary=postal_code
> [3] http://www.zipmap.net/
>
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>
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