<div dir="ltr"><div>In Australia, we encourage mappers not to use the town/city, State, or postcode fields at all when entering addresses!</div><div><br></div><div>All they need to enter is the unit number (if applicable & known), street number & street name.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 25 Sept 2022 at 18:40, Andrew Hain <<a href="mailto:andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk">andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk</a>> wrote:<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="msg2526659127214525646">
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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.<u></u> <u></u></p>
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<div id="m_-7186002878596768231divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 24 September 2022 16:07<br>
<b>To:</b> Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tagging] addr:town</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Am Sa., 24. Sept. 2022 um 13:38 Uhr schrieb Andrew Hain <<a href="mailto:andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk" target="_blank">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="m_-7186002878596768231x_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_-7186002878596768231x_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_-7186002878596768231x_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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#combinations</a></div>
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