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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jan 2, 2023, 14:10 by davisklavins@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you for the clarification! Updated everything as it makes sense to use one tag for all types of settlements and description of the tag matches the use case ("the name of the largest settlement (city / town / other) that is included in the address").<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">If you try to redefine tags then it should be clearly done, not hidden in a bot import proposal.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">At the same time, tags addr:town, addr:village and addr:hamlet are used in OSM, but not all of them even have a wiki page in English.<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:addr:town&action=history" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:addr:town&action=history</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:addr:hamlet&action=history" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:addr:hamlet&action=history</a><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"> Originally, addr:place was chosen for the bot to avoid separate tags addr:village and addr:hamlet which also were not used as much.<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place</a> has a documented meaning that is<br></div><div dir="auto">quite consistently used<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Addr:city seemed to be misleading for some users due to its name indicating city. If I started from scratch defining address tags for OSM, I would use addr:place for all these cases as its name better indicates that various types of settlements are included.<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">And I would swap highway=road and highway=unclassified.<br></div><div dir="auto">See also <br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Counterintuitive_keys_and_values" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Counterintuitive_keys_and_values</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But in case of redefinition attempt I would clearly propose it, rather than doing it as<br></div><div dir="auto">a part of bot edit.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> For me, it doesn't seem logical to define separate tag only for cases when there is no street as using the same settlement tag when there is one seems fine. In Latvia, when there is no street, addr:housename is used instead of addr:housenumber.<br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:housename">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:housename</a> is for names, not for <br></div><div dir="auto">housenumber without street name.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please, do not try to redefine tags if you would define them differently in case<br></div><div dir="auto">of you starting to create tag definitions without consulting others.<br></div><div dir="auto">It results in things being broken in affected area for anyone using standard tag<br></div><div dir="auto">definitions.<br></div><div dir="auto">Please, roll back that changes and do them again with standard tag meanings.<br></div><div dir="auto">If you want to redefine widely used tags used by many others please start from<br></div><div dir="auto">asking others rather than breaking geocoding, address display and all that.<br></div> </body>
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