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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jan 3, 2023, 13:38 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 dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div><div class=""><div class="" dir="ltr">On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 11:56, Sarah Hoffmann <<a href="mailto:lonvia@denofr.de" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lonvia@denofr.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div>I strongly recommend that you describe the exact changes you want to do<br></div><div> before you do any further uploads to the database. The public database<br></div><div> is not a playground for yo to toy around with until you get it right.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 10:58:30AM +0200, Dāvis Kļaviņš wrote:<br></div><div> > On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 at 10:19, Sarah Hoffmann <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:lonvia@denofr.de" rel="noopener noreferrer">lonvia@denofr.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> > <br></div><div> > > Unfortunately, you have now broken the addresses which do not have a<br></div><div> > > street. These are the ones were you need addr:place.<br></div><div> > ><br></div><div> > <br></div><div> > When you point to such a fact, I was able to find at Key:addr:place<br></div><div> > <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place</a>> that "it is okay to<br></div><div> > have both addr:place=* and addr:city=* with the same value on the same<br></div><div> > object". Will fix it. At the same time, there is nothing written about it<br></div><div> > at Key:addr:city <<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:city">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:city</a>>,<br></div><div> > although there should be.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> addr:place and addr:city may appear together when they refer to<br></div><div> different places which both would appear in the postal address. Do not<br></div><div> duplicate them when they refer to the same place or datausers will<br></div><div> interpret the address wrong.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Then why does the wiki state that "it is okay to have both addr:place=* and addr:city=* <b>with the same value on the same object</b>"? It's rather impossible to do things right when wiki says one thing, but some other user says the opposite.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">It is entirely normal to discover during such discussion that OSM Wiki had confusing/<br></div><div dir="auto">badly worded/misleading descriptions.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sometimes updating or extending OSM Wiki documentation takes large part of such<br></div><div dir="auto">effort (it happened to me few times when I was adding new functionality).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Self-contradictory description at OSM Wiki is one of reasons why discussing very <br></div><div dir="auto">large edits before doing them is a good idea.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And yes, <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:place</a> would benefit from clarifying<br></div><div dir="auto">what is claimed there.<br></div> </body>
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