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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.<o:p> </o:p></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 24 September 2022 16:07<br>
<b>To:</b> Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <tagging@openstreetmap.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tagging] addr:town</font>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_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>
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The key addr:town is currently documented as de facto [<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q1070" id="x_m_-6977077854198183516LPlnkOWALinkPreview_1" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q1070</a>][<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:town" id="x_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="x_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>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>
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<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>
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<div><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#combinations">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#combinations</a></div>
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