Sep 24, 2022, 17:07 by dieterdre...@gmail.com: > > > 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 > Has anyone researched this? If yes, I would encourage documenting this on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:town
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