In Australia, we encourage mappers not to use the town/city, State, or postcode fields at all when entering addresses!
All they need to enter is the unit number (if applicable & known), street number & street name. Thanks Graeme On Sun, 25 Sept 2022 at 18:40, Andrew Hain <andrewhain...@hotmail.co.uk> 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 > > ------------------------------ > *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 > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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