Clearly mappers in Bosnia, South Korea, Australia and particularly the Philippines should be asked about this. I am also concerned that the current description (“The town of the object that forms part of the address”) encourages using the tag instead of addr:city.
-- Andrew ________________________________ From: Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> Sent: 24 September 2022 16:07 To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <tagging@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Tagging] addr:town Am Sa., 24. Sept. 2022 um 13:38 Uhr schrieb Andrew Hain <andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk<mailto:andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk>>: The key addr:town is currently documented as de facto [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q1070][https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:town]. However investigations in the UK have found it to generally be a mistake for addr:city or addr:suburb[https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses_in_the_United_Kingdom#Address_tags]. Should it be deprecated? addr:town<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q1070> The town of the object that forms part of the address. wiki.openstreetmap.org<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org> In the areas I know this tag should not be used, but addresses can be very different globally. Looking at taginfo, this seems to be a regional thing (some mix ups with addr:city aside): https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#map Still looking at taginfo, I see on 35% in combination with addr:city, or 41k items, it's these that may indicate there could be something behind it, intention rather than confusion ;-) https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#combinations
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