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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sep 24, 2022, 17:07 by dieterdreist@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">Am Sa., 24. Sept. 2022 um 13:38 Uhr schrieb Andrew Hain <<a href="mailto:andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">andrewhainosm@hotmail.co.uk</a>>:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The key addr:town is currently documented as de facto [<a target="_blank" id="m_-6977077854198183516LPlnkOWALinkPreview_1" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q1070" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q1070</a>][<a target="_blank" id="m_-6977077854198183516LPlnk571412" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:town" rel="noopener noreferrer">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 target="_blank" id="m_-6977077854198183516LPlnkOWALinkPreview" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses_in_the_United_Kingdom#Address_tags" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses_in_the_United_Kingdom#Address_tags</a>].
Should it be deprecated?<br></div><div><div style="width:100%;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;max-width:800px;min-width:424px" id="m_-6977077854198183516LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly93aWtpLm9wZW5zdHJlZXRtYXAub3JnL3dpa2kvSXRlbTpRMTA3MA.."><table style="padding:12px 36px 12px 12px;width:100%;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(200,200,200);border-radius:2px" role="presentation" id="m_-6977077854198183516LPContainer750683"><tbody><tr style="border-spacing:0px" valign="top"><td style="width:100%"><div style="font-size:21px;font-weight:300;margin-right:8px;font-family:"wf_segoe-ui_light","Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:12px" id="m_-6977077854198183516LPTitle750683"><a target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q1070" id="m_-6977077854198183516LPUrlAnchor750683" rel="noopener noreferrer">addr:town</a><br></div><div style="font-size:14px;max-height:100px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:"wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:12px;margin-right:8px;overflow:hidden" id="m_-6977077854198183516LPDescription750683">The town of the object that forms part of the address.<br></div><div style="font-size:14px;font-weight:400;color:rgb(166,166,166);font-family:"wf_segoe-ui_normal","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif" id="m_-6977077854198183516LPMetadata750683"><a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">wiki.openstreetmap.org</a><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></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" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#map</a><br></div><div><br></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" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Atown#combinations</a><br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Has anyone researched this? If yes, I would encourage documenting this on<br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:town">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:town</a><br></div> </body>
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