<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Sa., 24. Sept. 2022 um 13:38 Uhr schrieb Andrew Hain <<a href="mailto:andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk">andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-6977077854198183516">
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The key addr:town is currently documented as de facto [<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q1070" id="m_-6977077854198183516LPlnkOWALinkPreview_1" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q1070</a>][<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:town" id="m_-6977077854198183516LPlnk571412" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:town</a>].
However investigations in the UK have found it to generally be a mistake for addr:city or addr:suburb[<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses_in_the_United_Kingdom#Address_tags" id="m_-6977077854198183516LPlnkOWALinkPreview" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses_in_the_United_Kingdom#Address_tags</a>].
Should it be deprecated?</div>
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The town of the object that forms part of the address.</div>
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</div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>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): <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#map">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#map</a></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>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 ;-)<br></div><div><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#combinations">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#combinations</a></div><div><br></div></div>