Re: [Tagging] Incomplete addresses

2020-01-07 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 19:26, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On 1/7/20 02:16, Lionel Giard wrote: > > The ID template must not be taken a mandatory field, but only as a > > suggestion on what information is generally useful for this feature (in > > the entire world, as i think that the template are not d

Re: [Tagging] Incomplete addresses

2020-01-07 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On 1/7/20 02:16, Lionel Giard wrote: > The ID template must not be taken a mandatory field, but only as a > suggestion on what information is generally useful for this feature (in > the entire world, as i think that the template are not different by > countries ?!). :-) I'm pretty sure the iD temp

Re: [Tagging] Incomplete addresses

2020-01-07 Thread Lionel Giard
In Belgium, the only two mandatory field are "house number" and "street name", postcode and municipality/city can generally be derived from administrative boundaries and thus are optional. I see a lot of people using ID and adding those, as well as the country which is really not needed (because th

Re: [Tagging] Incomplete addresses

2020-01-06 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
7 Jan 2020, 02:58 by graemefi...@gmail.com: > I kept finding places with the street number & name entered, often together > with the post code!, but with no suburb listed? > > Obviously, I have no idea which editor was used to map them, but shouldn't > this sort of thing error to say "Incomplete

Re: [Tagging] Incomplete addresses

2020-01-06 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 12:06, Jarek Piórkowski wrote: > > In Ontario we don't always map city and province in cases where that > can be easily computed from other OSM data. Province is outright > discouraged. When the administrative boundaries of municipalities and > regions/states/provinces are f

Re: [Tagging] Incomplete addresses

2020-01-06 Thread Andrew Harvey
I agree, it's pedantic to add the suburb and state since these can easily be derived from the admin boundaries, and often from a ground survey you won't be able to know the suburb anyway so best to just enter the data that you can survey. That said, it can still be useful to tag the suburb on the

Re: [Tagging] Incomplete addresses

2020-01-06 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 20:59, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Was wondering about how to bring this up when the ongoing discussion about > building addresses started ... > > I've recently been working on Map Roulette errors, & while doing so, have > come across quite a few cases where addresses hav

[Tagging] Incomplete addresses

2020-01-06 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
Was wondering about how to bring this up when the ongoing discussion about building addresses started ... I've recently been working on Map Roulette errors, & while doing so, have come across quite a few cases where addresses haven't been completely entered. In Australia, the format for entering