I believe many areas of allotments have a single postal address assigned to the entire area, while the individual plots are not registered as official addresses.
Perhaps this explains why a different tag was used. On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:41 PM Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > On Monday 07 January 2019, Paul Allen wrote: > > > > They are verifiable by asking the organization in charge of the > > allotments, as I initially did > > when mapping some allotments. > > Verifiability in OSM means *independent* verifiability based on > observations of the geographic reality. Same as with any other kind of > proprietary ID. > > > How about because allotments do not have postcodes? > > That might depend on the country but AFAIK in many countries postal > codes cover the whole country. > > > How about > > because addresses are > > generally a means of figuring out where to deliver physical mail and > > allotments are not on > > postal delivery routes? > > There are many addresses that do not receive postal delivery - in > particular for example corporate infrastructure where mail is > collectively delivered to a single location while individual buildings > and other infrastructure still have their own addesses. > > > Even addr:unit would be stretching the > > definition of unit past its breaking > > point. > > I have not made any suggestion as to what kind of address tag to use but > if the plot number is signed and you invite your friends for a grilling > party at plot 42 that is definitely an address from my perspective. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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