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addr:city
Description
The name of the largest settlement (city / town / other) that is included in the address.
Group:
addresses
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elements
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Status:
de facto
addr:city
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The
postal city
, also called the
place of destination
, is the name of the city that appears in the postal address of an address node, point of interest, or building.
Contents
How to tag
Regional variations
2.1
United States
Possible tagging mistakes
See also
How to tag
Add
addr:city
=*
to the same feature you are tagging with
addr:housenumber
=*
addr:street
=*
, etc. Some countries additionally distinguish other kinds of administrative units as part of the standard address format, requiring other subkeys of
addr
=*
, such as
addr:region
=*
addr:state
=*
addr:province
=*
addr:town
=*
, and
addr:quarter
=*
If you are tagging a private mailbox (
amenity
letter_box
), use
post:city
=*
instead of
addr:city
=*
, to help distinguish the mailbox from the residence that it serves.
Regional variations
The meaning of this key differs from country to country. In some countries, the postal city is guaranteed to match the
name
=*
tag of the smallest
boundary
administrative
relation containing the feature, so it is less common to tag it explicitly. However, in other countries, the postal city corresponds to the name of the post office that serves the area. It is not guaranteed to be the name of the containing city or even a city at all. This makes it useful to tag
addr:city
=*
explicitly even when it does match the containing administrative boundary's name, so that mappers and data consumers can distinguish such coincidences from missing postal city data.
United States
A post office's sign usually indicates the recommended postal cities and ZIP codes served by the post office.
The
postal service city
is the name of the USPS post office that serves the address' ZIP code (
addr:postcode
=*
).
[1]
Many imports have omitted
addr:city
=*
, assuming that data consumers would infer it from the smallest surrounding administrative boundary. However, addresses very often break this assumption. For example,
six different ZIP codes
serve the tiny town of
Scotland, Connecticut
. If an address is located in a village without its own post office or ZIP code, the USPS usually does not accept the village's name. Mail bearing an unacceptable postal service city may be returned to the sender.
If the address is served by a post office station, post office branch, or village post office, the USPS prefers the name of the main post office but may accept the local post office's name as an alternative. For example, the main post office is located downtown and named after the metropolitan area's principal city, while the local post office is named after the suburb that it serves. Some residents and business owners prefer one name over another because of the name's familiarity or reputation. Their preference may be reflected on their signage, receipts, or official website. For example,
a long-running children's TV show
memorably
advertised its studio's address
as being in the 02134 ZIP code of Boston, which is an acceptable alternative to the recommended city name of Allston. If possible, try to respect this preference when mapping an address. If you cannot easily determine the preference, pick any of the acceptable names to at least prevent data consumers from having to guess based on the ZIP code.
A geocoder should not assume a one-to-one relationship between postal cities and ZIP codes. It is inadvisable to use the locations of individual
addr:city
=*
tags alone to derive "postal city polygons", because this choice of names may result in holes and other anomalies. However, a geocoder can improve the relevance of its results by considering the full set of postal cities that have been tagged in conjunction with a given ZIP code, as in
this QLever query
Possible tagging mistakes
note:post_town
More details at tag
info
note:post_town=*
If you know
places with this tag
, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are
strongly discouraged
unless
you really know what you are doing
See also
is_in:city
=*
Retrieved from "
Categories
Key descriptions for group "addresses"
Key descriptions
Key descriptions with status "de facto"
Addresses
Tagging Mistakes
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