Changeset: 117564708
Bristol post town added to addresses where missing addr:city tag
Closed by sec147
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Discussion
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Comment from DaveF
Hi
What was the criteria for deciding to add addr:city? -
Comment from sec147
The addr:city tag is used to determine the post town element of the postal address. Does not mean the place in question is a city in the accepted sense. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses_in_the_United_Kingdom
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Comment from DaveF
Hi
What was the criteria for adding the addr:city to some buildings & not others? -
Comment from sec147
Hello. Building or nodes with some address details (postcode at least) that did not already have post town. Not every building will be addressable, and don’t want to add data to anything that someone hadn’t already started adding address tags through survey, etc. hopefully by doing so, people will follow and be more comprehensive in address tagging. Having house name/number, street, postcode and post town makes for a useful dataset.
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Comment from southglos
Hang on a mo... just noticed that these changes stretch quite far out of Bristol. For example, in the upper-right part of this changeset, the post town is Wotton-under-Edge, but you've added addr:city=Bristol. Even addresses in Wotton-under-Edge itself now have a post town of Bristol? What was the source for which post town to add?
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Comment from southglos
Oh, and even further afield... it's caught buildings in Wales too. Llanmartin Primary School, Bristol NP18 2HB??
- Comment from DaveF
Ways (1-20 of 9449)
- Tytherington Quarry (3415794), v7
- Tesco (4225415), v9
- Bromley Heath Junior School (4318215), v8
- Memorial Hall (4490473), v5
- The Cube (4745123), v8
- Frankie & Benny's (4899406), v13
- Morrisons (4899408), v12
- 4904342, v9
- Royal Mail Filton Sorting Office (4904438), v9
- RAC Tower (4904452), v6
- Brabazon Hangar (4904968), v11
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (4917237), v12
- Sainsburys Distribution Depot (4923396), v7
- Cherry Garden Primary School (5865769), v8
- The Range (6946176), v16
- Sainsbury's (6946182), v12
- Makro (9898284), v7
- 9898345, v4
- Aldi (10523297), v9
- Riversway Nursing Home (15502487), v5
Nodes (541-551 of 551)
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