Hong Kong/Locations

Places

• place=suburb : Minimal necessary for addresses, searching, routing

Subdivisions

[TBD] Verifiable/uncontroversial boundary=administrative determination

1. admin_level=6 District Council districts (when whole DC is usable as one)
2. natural=coastline , place=island
3. waterway=* , natural=water, natural=strait , natural=bay
4. natural=mountain_range , natural=ridge
5. Historical: Reclamation,
6. Historical: Decked nullahs, culverts
7. boundary=national_park (because OZP and New Town limits are often cut off by Country Park
8. railway=* tracks
9. amenity=post_office area of responsibility (this is actually how addressing works in many countries)

Method: Draw straight line from the terminals of the criteria to the admin_level=6 District Council border to split the DC District to test

Addressses

TBC

1. NA
2. [Unneeded] PRC / HK
3. [Unneeded] HKSAR
4. NA
5. [Unneeded] (Viz HKI, Kowloon, NT)
6. [Unneeded] [Not used for addressing] District Council district
7. [Unneeded] (Viz Lantau)
8. [As applicable] addr:town=* : Only add to the estate/site landuse=* , no need to repeat on buildings and tenants
   • New Town
   • Rural market town
9. {As applicable] addr:suburb=* : Only add to the estate/site landuse=* , no need to repeat on buildings and tenants
   • HKI, Kowloon parts
   • Shatin parts
   • NT parts outside towns
10. [As applicable] addr:village=* / addr:hamlet=* (not necessarily the same as addr:place=* )
11. Numbering entity
    • addr:place=*
      • Numbered village
      • Numbered village part
    • addr:street=*
12. addr:housenumber=*
13. [TBD] [Not required] Multi-estate developments (Viz Kowloon Station / Union Square, Lohas Park)
14. [Not required] Estates with numbered buildings but are not used for numbering (viz Whampoa Gardens) : The landuse=residential can already be returned by spatial query
15. addr:housename=*
    • Estate with named buildings
    • Malls
    • Offices complexes
    • Standalone/single-building
16. [Unneeded] Estate parts (can have multiple phases inside) used to number buildings separately (viz Whampoa Gardens's Mansions)
17. addr:unit=*
    • Estate buildings
    • Sub-buildings (Eg "Tower 1A" and "Tower 1B" of "Tower 1")
    • Mall parts (blocks/phases/buildings)
18. [Depends] addr:floor=* : Only when an entire floor is occupied, or part unnumbered (Use only level:ref=* otherwise)
19. addr:door=*: Stores/shops/offices/tenants "unit", room