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As for the Philippines addr:town essentially always contains the
name of the major location in an address. <br>
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The bulk of these occurences were added in a manual import of
40.000+ public schools where addr:town tag was assigned over
addr:city for all schools that are located in municipalities (mapped
as place=town in OSM) and not cities. Additionally large batches of
these addr tags were introduced through mass-edits adding many
hundreds to thousands in single changesets. Only a minor fraction
was added by mappers on individual basis, most likely inspired by
pre-existing tags from above mentioned import. Double tagging is a
minor issue with only 280 instances with identical value in
addr:city and addr:town.<br>
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I'm curious to hear about the origin of addr:town usage in the other
mentioned countries. <br>
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- Timmy_Tesseract<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2022-09-25 15:36, Andrew Hain wrote:<br>
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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
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<b>Sent:</b> 24 September 2022 16:07<br>
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<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" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q1070</a>][<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:town" id="x_m_-6977077854198183516LPlnk571412" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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
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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" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">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" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#combinations</a></div>
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