As for the Philippines addr:town essentially always contains the name of
the major location in an address.
The bulk of these occurences were added in a manual import of 40.000+
public schools where addr:town tag was assigned over addr:city for all
schools that are located in municipalities (mapped as place=town in OSM)
and not cities. Additionally large batches of these addr tags were
introduced through mass-edits adding many hundreds to thousands in
single changesets. Only a minor fraction was added by mappers on
individual basis, most likely inspired by pre-existing tags from above
mentioned import. Double tagging is a minor issue with only 280
instances with identical value in addr:city and addr:town.
I'm curious to hear about the origin of addr:town usage in the other
mentioned countries.
- Timmy_Tesseract
On 2022-09-25 15:36, Andrew Hain wrote:
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
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*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>:
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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